{Healthy} Spinach Dip Chicken tastes pretty much as if creamy, cheesy spinach dip crashed into your chicken skillet.
Made with a packet of boneless, skinless thighs, a bag of frozen spinach, light sour cream, and two kinds of cheese, it’s an easy weeknight supper that is full of flavor, tastes great, and has a lot fewer calories and fat than similar cheesy recipes, but you’d never know it.
Welcome to the Good and Good for You™ newsletter, a quick 5-minute read with ideas and info on ways to help improve your life.
This issue shares:
- Best Life Living Tip: How to Remove AI from a Google Search
- Self-Care Strategy: Don’t Like Frozen Vegetables? Let it Go!
- Ideas and Inspiration: The Chef and the Scholar Taste the State of Georgia
- Weeknight Recipe: Healthy Spinach Dip Chicken
Thanks for reading! It’s joyful to see that this newsletter is making life better in some way for so many folks.
Read on for more — including this Healthy Spinach Dip Chicken. It looks and tastes indulgent, but is only 250 calories per serving (with 30 grams of protein!)
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Best Life Living Tip
Artificial intelligence AI is part of our world. It’s both helpful and harmful — but more than anything, the information provided can be flat out wrong.
With AI front and center at the top of the page, it’s nearly impossible to ignore the results even if you know there may be inaccuracies and inconsistencies.
This best life living tip is to add “-AI” (minus sign plus the letters AI) to the search field in Google when using Google Chrome. It will populate without AI at the top, allowing you more control when you want AI in your life.
Check out my video on Instagram (and if you are not doing so already, please follow me at @virginiawillis – thanks!)
Self-Care Technique
How can what you keep in your pantry, freezer, or fridge be self-care? If you have healthy foods in the house, you’ll eat healthy. If you have unhealthy foods in the house, you’re more likely to eat unhealthy.
Bagged frozen spinach should be standard operating procedure in your freezer for healthy eating.
Got a hang-up about fresh vs frozen? Let it go.
Frozen veggies are flash-frozen often within hours of being picked. They are often as nutritious and in some cases more nutritious than the “fresh” ones.
Of course, it’s not like from the farmer’s market, but it can come in handy, especially for quick meals.
What are the Uses for Frozen Spinach?
Bagged frozen spinach can add color, flavor, and nutrients to a meal without a trip to the store. (Go for bagged over the frozen block; it’s more adaptable and easier to defrost.)
- Blitz a bag with garlic, herbs, and a creamy base of mayo/yogurt/sour cream for a luxurious vegetable and chip dip
- Blend it up in a smoothie
- Add it to shakshuka
- Add it to a pot of soup
- Shortcut Japanese ohitashi
Ideas and Inspiration
Taste the State Georgia: is a wonderfully compelling celebration of the foods borne from Georgia’s fields, forests, and waterways — and how the state’s pioneering marketing efforts helped define the very concept of regional American food.
In 1913, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce urged every county and hotel in the state to host a banquet made up solely of local products. Taste the State Georgia is built on those very menus. What amazing branding and marketing before it seemingly was even a thing!
This incredible book offers a rich and multifaceted perspective on the ingredients, recipes, and stories that define and describe the foodways, culinary traditions, and complex cuisine of the Deep South’s oldest and largest state.
Make sure to give these gentlemen a follow at @chefscholar on Instagram for Kevin and David Shields on Facebook.
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Make it Count
Thanks for reading! I hope you like this recipe for Healthy Spinach Dip Chicken. Having a dish like this in your back pocket will help keep you on target with your healthy eating goals.
There’s nothing like a creamy, cheesy casserole to set the world right. All this for only 250 calories and 30 grams of protein? Sign me up!
Please follow me on Instagram at @virginiawillis for more best life tips, self-care strategies, inspiration, and healthy recipes.
Remember, as long as you’re doing what’s Good and Good for You™ more often than not, you’re on the right track.
You can do it! 🙌🏻
Bon Appétit Y’all!
Virginia Willis
Healthy Spinach Dip Chicken
Ingredients
- Nonstick spray
- 1 onion coarsely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic chopped
- 1 15- ounce bag frozen spinach
- 1/2 cup light sour cream
- 1 tablespoon freshly chopped dill
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 4 boneless skinless chicken thighs
- ¼ cup part-skim grated mozzarella
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese more for serving, if desired
- Cooked rice or pasta for serving
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350°F. Spray a large skillet with nonstick spray. Add the onion and cook until clear and translucent, about 3 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, 45 to 60 seconds. Add the spinach and stir to combine. Once the spinach is melted and combined, add the sour cream, dill, and red pepper flakes; stir to combine.
- Place the chicken thighs on top of the spinach and nestle into the spinach. Transfer to the oven and bake until the chicken until the juices run clear when pierced with the tip of a knife and the internal temperature registers 160 degrees on an instant-read thermometer, about 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and top with the cheeses. Change the oven setting to broil and cook until the cheese is bubbling and browned, about 5 minutes depending on the strength of your broiler, and their internal temperature reaches 165 degrees.
