Lazy Baked Greek Chicken
This lazy baked Greek chicken is a great weeknight meal but fancy enough to impress guests as well. You’ll love the flavors and the presentation.
I currently have a free subscription to Rachael Ray’s magazine, but I really like it, so much that I might actually pay for the next year of it. This is from her magazine, I don’t know which month because I tore the page out, but it was recent, perhaps January 2011?
Lazy Baked Greek Chicken
This lazy baked Greek chicken is a great weeknight meal but fancy enough to impress guests as well. You’ll love the flavors and the presentation.
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/2 medium onion, finely chopped
2 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
One 10-ounce box organic chopped spinach, thawed
Salt and pepper
Freshly grated nutmeg to taste
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 cup panko breadcrumbs
1 teaspoon dried oregano
4 pieces skinless, boneless chicken breast
1/2 cup crumbled greek feta cheese
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 425*F. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and two-thirds of the garlic and cook until softened, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a bowl to cool, then add the spinach and season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Melt the butter in the same pan, turn off the heat and add the panko, oregano and garlic, toss.
- Drizzle a baking dish with the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil. Split each chicken breast across but not through and open like a book (be careful, you can easily cut yourself doing this!). Stuff with the spinach and feta, letting the stuffing overflow at the edges. Place the chicken pieces in the baking dish and top with the breadcrumbs. Bake until the juices run clear, about 20-35 minutes.
adapted from Rachael Ray Magazine
Verdict: SO good! I loved this chicken. The crust was so crispy and delicious and flavorful. It presents well, and looks like a difficult dish to make, but it really isn’t too hard to make.
Husband’s take: My husband likes almost everything, which is one of the many things I love about him. He is finicky about garlic and onions though. So if I was to make this for him again, I would a) leave out the onions and b) reduce the garlic further than I already did. But if I was going to make it for just me, I would leave it just as it was!
Changes I would make: See above.
Difficulty: Moderate. Actually pretty easy. Looks more intimidating than it actually is.
4 Comments on “Lazy Baked Greek Chicken”
Very disappointing. I made this exactly as the recipe directed. It looks great, but was very bland; unexceptional at best. We will probably scrape out the spinach/feta stuffing, chop up the chicken and make chicken salad.
I was very hopeful that this would be THE chicken recipe, but no way.
Sorry to hear that – we love this recipe! There are a lot of other great chicken recipe on my site though, maybe you’ll find THE one! https://www.rachelcooks.com/category/poultry/
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We had this at Rachel's this past weekend–Yummy! And since I helped make it, I can vouch that it's easy but looks impressively hard. Mom