real mom recipes: Chicken and Spinach Manicotti
I have another recipe for you today that utilizes the best tool known to busy parents everywhere: the rotisserie chicken. This is one of the most popular recipes on my site, and is exceedingly simple to put together. You can certainly use a jarred sauce, but I always use my Copycat Olive Garden Alfredo Sauce, because who really doesn’t love that stuff?
If you use jarred sauce, you may want to buy two jars so you have enough. Like Dad always says, “Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.”
Chicken and Spinach Manicotti
Go Go Go Gourmet for The Wise Baby
- 1 box manicotti
- 9 oz bag spinach
- ½ rotisserie chicken, meat removed from the bones and shredded
- 1 egg
- 18 oz ricotta cheese
- ¾ c grated parmesan
- 1¼ cup shredded Italian blend cheese (or mozzarella), divided
- 1 double recipe Alfredo sauce (recipe here) or jarred
- fresh parsley, for garnish
- Preheat the oven to 375F.
- In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook the manicotti until al dente. Drain and rinse with cold water.
- Saute the spinach in 1 T olive oil until wilted; roughly chop and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, stir together the chicken, egg, spinach and cheese. Spoon the mixture into a large Ziploc bag or piping bag and cut off the tip.
- Ladle 1/4 of the alfredo sauce into the bottom of a 9×13 baking dish.
- Insert the end of the bag into a manicotti and squeeze in the filling. Place in the baking dish and repeat until you run out of filling.
- Pour the rest of the alfredo sauce over the top. Bake for 20 minutes. Sprinkle with the parsley and serve.
You can find my other recipes for TWB HERE as well lots more on my site, GO GO GO GOURMET.
Keep fighting the good fight out there!
real mom recipes: Chicken and Spinach Manicotti
Jacqueline DiNuoscio
