Chicken on a bed of spinach

My last recipe – the energy bars – got a telling-off from the author of this blog (so now you know who’s behind this post – note from Prymitywna Kuchnia) for being too high in calories… (yes, Prymitywna Kuchnia – you know, the one with the ribs, fried chicken, black pudding and other such treats – is giving me grief about the calories in my gym bars!). It was no use explaining that it’s all about the post-workout carb window, that you don’t count calories then, that you just have to eat carbs!!!

All right, then… This time I’ve made a DIET dish. No carbs. Just the thing when you get home from the gym, after the bars – to top up your protein, of course 🙂

[So I’ve created a category especially for Kaja called “Diet dishes, no carbs” – note from Prymitywna Kuchnia]

At a glance: 

Preparation time: 30 minutes

Serves: enough to fill two people up

Calories: alarmingly few by Prymitywna Kuchnia standards

Ingredients for topping up your protein (according to Kaja):

• 2 pieces of chicken breast (a little vague there, Kaja. Maybe you could drop us a comment and say whether you mean a whole double breast or two single breasts, small ones, big ones? – note from Prymitywna Kuchnia)
• 750 grams of frozen leaf spinach
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 200 ml milk
• Salt
• A tablespoon of butter
• 4 sun-dried tomatoes

Method (cock-a-doodle-doo):

I started with the chicken. I cooked it in water (grilling or frying stinks the place up, and I haven’t treated myself to an extractor hood yet), though I think grilled chicken would taste better. I put the meat in the water and cooked it for about 20 minutes from the time it came to the boil.

Meanwhile, I put the spinach in a frying pan on the highest heat until it had all thawed, then tipped it into a sieve and pressed the water out (you can also leave it to defrost beforehand – I was in a hurry). I melted the butter in the pan and added the spinach, grated garlic, a little salt and the milk. I cooked everything together for a few more minutes to let the flavours come together.

All that’s left is to spoon the spinach onto the plates and top it with the chicken breasts, cut into thick slices, and the chopped sun-dried tomatoes. Done! Enjoy!