Chicken & Mushroom Bake

Swap the broccoli with cauliflower if you like or use both.  This recipe is low salt, low sugar, low fat and high protein.

Ingredients

• 1 chicken breast, sliced into strips
• 100g mushrooms, sliced
• 2 tsp. olive oil
• ½ onion, sliced
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 cup stock, chicken salt reduced
• Squeeze lemon juice
• Sprinkle of rosemary and or thyme/oregano
• 1 cups light n creamy evaporative milk
• 80g broccoli, cut into florets
• 2 handfuls baby spinach leaves
• 50g dried pasta shells

Method

1. Preheat oven 180C. Cook your pasta until just cooked, drain and set aside.
2. Heat a non-stick frypan with olive oil, medium heat. Add onion and sauté for a few minutes until softened. Add mushrooms, season with salt and pepper, sauté for a few minutes. Add garlic, spinach and a tiny bit of stock if needed to stop from sticking to the pan whilst stirring. Turn off and set aside.
3. In the same pan, grill your chicken 1-2 minutes each side just to seal in the juices. Take off pan.
4. Grab a small oven dish and place mushroom mixture on base of dish. Then layer pasta, chicken and broccoli. Pour stock and evaporative milk over, then squeeze lemon over dish, sprinkle your herbs over then season with salt and pepper. Cover dish tightly with foil to half steam, sometime 2 layers of foil is needed.
5. Bake in oven for 25 - 30 minutes or until chicken has cooked.