Chicken Orzo Protein Bake

Serves: 4 Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 40-45 minutes What you’ll need: A glass oven dish, approximately $35\text{cm}\times 25\text{cm}$

Ingredients:

• $200\text{g}$ Orzo pasta
• $200\text{g}$ fresh baby spinach
• $500\text{g}$ cherry tomatoes
• $320\text{g}$ cooked chicken (shredded or diced – a rotisserie chicken works wonders here!)
• $50\text{g}$ Parmesan cheese, grated
• $150\text{g}$ Boursin cheese (or any herbed cream cheese you love!)
• $400\text{ml}$ chicken or vegetable stock
• Salt & freshly ground black pepper to taste

Let’s Get Cooking!

1. Preheat your oven to 180∘C (that’s about 350∘F).
2. Grab your oven dish. Pop the Boursin cheese right in the middle.
3. Now, add everything else – the orzo, spinach, cherry tomatoes, cooked chicken, and stock – into the dish. Give it all a good mix around the Boursin. Don’t add the Parmesan yet!
4. Cover your dish tightly with foil. Bake in the preheated oven for about $35$ minutes.
5. Carefully remove the foil, sprinkle over the Parmesan cheese, and pop it back into the oven for another $5-10$ minutes, or until the cheese is golden and bubbly and the orzo is tender.
6. Divide into $4$ equal portions and enjoy!

My Tip: This is brilliant for batch cooking! Let any extra portions cool completely, then store them in airtight containers in the fridge for delicious, ready-to-go meals throughout your week.