Recipe: Perfect Chicken Spinach Mushroom Bake

Chicken Spinach Mushroom Bake. Then sprinkle the seasonings over the top. Soften cream cheese and whisk in olive oil and chicken broth. Once all the spinach has been added and cooked down, stir in the cream cheese, parmesan, salt and pepper until they melt and mix together.

Slather on the spinach/mushroom mixture evenly over the top of the chicken. Top spinach with remaining mushrooms and coat with liquid mixture. Serve and enjoy you baked chicken with mushroom and spinach! You can cook Chicken Spinach Mushroom Bake using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken Spinach Mushroom Bake

1. Prepare 2 cups of chicken, cooked (shredded).
2. It's 10 oz of mushrooms (canned or fresh).
3. You need 6 oz of spinach roughly chopped.
4. It's 1/2 cup of mozzarella shredded.
5. You need 1 of medium onion chopped.
6. You need 1 tbsp of butter.
7. You need 3 of garlic cloves minced.
8. It's 1/2 tsp of thyme.
9. You need 1/2 tsp of crushed red pepper.
10. You need to taste of Salt and pepper.
11. It's of For the sauce:.
12. Prepare 1 (15 oz) of container of ricotta cheese or ¾ cup heavy cream.
13. Prepare 3 oz of cream cheese.
14. Prepare 2 oz of mozzarella.
15. Prepare 1/4 cup of parmesan grated.
16. Prepare Pinch of nutmeg.
17. It's to taste of Salt and pepper.

In a large mixing bowl, combine the pasta, chicken mixture, tomatoes with their liquid, spinach, cream cheese and sugar. In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat; saute mushrooms and green onions until tender. Stir in spinach and pecans until spinach is wilted. Finally, add chicken and mushrooms back into the pan.

Chicken Spinach Mushroom Bake step by step

1. Boil chicken..
2. Preheat the oven to 350F..
3. Melt butter in a frying pan over medium-high heat. Add onion, garlic and thyme. Cook for 30 seconds. Add mushrooms and red pepper flakes, then season with salt and pepper and sauté for 8 minutes..
4. Stir in spinach (a handful at a time, allowing to wilt before adding the next handful), and cook for an additional 2 minutes or until spinach wilts. Set aside..
5. In a small saucepan, combine all sauce ingredients. Heat on low, stirring occasionally, until cheese melts and the sauce becomes smooth and homogeneous..
6. In a casserole dish, arrange a layer of shredded chicken meat. Spread over half of the cheesy sauce then arrange a layer of mushroom-spinach mixture. Spread remaining sauce on top, sprinkle with mozzarella and bake for 20 minutes or until browned and bubbly on top or turn on broiler for the last 3-5 minutes for extra crispy cheese..
7. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving and enjoy..

And this is how Easy Chicken Breasts with Spinach and Mushrooms it done! Yet, how amazing does it look? Cooking Tip: Make sure to heat the stainless steel pan before adding the oil. Cover the spinach with the mushrooms. Pour half the mixture from the saucepan over the mushrooms.