Creamy Keto Chicken Bake - Healthy & Guilt-Free
Source: https://www.eatwell101.com/creamy-chicken-and-cauliflower-rice-casserole
Now this is also a weekly meal. I am making this on the weekend for sure. It tastes so incredibly creamy and cheesy, you just don't want to stop. This is a pretty flexible recipe and you can add anything that you want with it. We usually have cauliflower rice or zucchini noodles with ours, but you can have a salad or if you are going the less healthy route, add some cooked pasta in there and you have a perfect bake for dinner. I usually make a big batch and have it for lunch or dinner the next day, but this can also be frozen as a ready cooked meal. So, lets get to the recipe:
Ingredients
500-800g Skinless Chicken Breasts
1 Punnet Mushrooms
3 Tsp Garlic
1 Red Pepper
2-3 Jalapeno Chilies (Depending on how hot you like it)
2 Tubs Cream Cheese
2 Cups Grated Cheddar
2 Tsp Paprika
1 Tsp Basil
3 Tbsp Hot Sauce (optional)
Method:
- Cut the chicken into strips.
- In a bowl, add cream cheese, hot sauce, basil and paprika and stir until the cream cheese is soft.
- Once the cream cheese mixture is soft, add the chicken and coat the chicken in the cheese and add to a greased pyrex oven dish and spread.
- Chop mushrooms, jalapenos and pepper, add to the mix with the garlic and stir in.
5.Cover the dish with the grated cheddar, cover with tin foil and put in a pre heated oven at 180 degrees celsius for 30 minutes. - Remove from the over, remove the foil and put the dish back into the oven for 10 minutes so that the cheese can brown.
- Once cooked, let it stand for a few minutes and then serve.
This promises to be a healthy dish that is packed with flavour and you can go to bed with a guilt free conscience!
Have fun making this and send us some photo's of your version.
Lots of love beautiful steemians
Looks delicous! Yummy!
make it and let me know how it is!!! Post some pictures :D
It's look yummy
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you should try it, it tastes so good!
This was a great read. I am a fan of cheese linners. Linners because I don't like to eat late. I can't wait to try it out. I don't usually eat meats or chicken just once in a blue moon because I prefer a vegan diet but I like to spoil myself on a rare occasion and will definitely put this on my to do list the next time I decide to spoil myself.
I have a couple questions Incase I want to follow your recipe again but without meats.
What do you recommend for substitute on chicken for vegetable? I'm curious to your opinion.
Also I don't have an electric oven, I have a gas one instead and cooking is different on a gas oven. I might have to purchase a thermometer... Oh well.
Also silly questions men ask, what's a "punnet"? And how much in quantity is that?
How much is a tub of cream cheese? Because where I live they sell most things by the grams or kilo.
Thank you again for your time.
Hi @elcerebro thanks for the great feedback and for the questions! I love using this recipe with broccoli and/or cauliflower and it makes a great carb free mac n cheese :D We sometimes treat ourselves to a proper pasta mac n cheese but it's quite a rare occasion lol. Some other ideas could be to use brinjals sliced (Egg plant/aubergines) I'm not sure what you call them, or you could also use zucchini (baby marrow"sliced length ways. You can really be creative with this, you could even make a veggie bake with a combination of your favorite roasting vegetables.
About your gas oven, I am so jealous!!!! I love a gas oven!! I find it bakes things much more evenly, and faster too lol. I think it is best to make the heat a little lower, and to keep an eye on it. With the different veggies, I usually steam the veggies that take longer to cook first for 10 minutes, like cauliflower for example, this ensures that all veggies are soft. I hate biting into a warm uncooked piece of potato or something like that lol.
A punnet is what mushrooms come in here in South Africa, it is about 200g of mushrooms, and a tub of cream cheese is a normal tub around 230g.
Thanks again for the great feedback
I'm making creamy Alfredo with zucchini ribbons tonight, ill post that one tonight with some photos!
Thank you for replying. I wrote down your fantastic ideas. I never really cooked by myself too often but since I am now single and living alone I thought I would utilize the free extra time and learn new things as I go along this journey.
Whenever I get around to it I'll be sure to post it up, however it turned out good or bad lol. Thanks again for your time.
que delicia es muy buenas recetas