This Chicken and Spinach Strata is a great end of week meal. Or a great start of week meal to use up leftovers from the week before! The only ingredients in this recipe you actually need to have are egg, milk and bread (stale is fine!). Everything else is optional or use what you have. No cheese? No problem. Just up the salt a bit to make up for it. Only got ricotta? Perfect. Dollop it in the layers. No chicken? No worries. Make it without, or add more veggies, or how about using ham, bacon or even a can of tuna? (Just make sure to drain it). This strata version I have shared is a Chicken, Spinach and Cheese one because I was feeling super lazy and didn’t want to do any chopping (well, other than the bread – though I was tempted just to tear it into chunks). I used frozen spinach because that’s what I had but you can use fresh spinach or any other vegetables you have that will cook in 30 minutes in the oven. The only thing to remember is to get rid of excess liquid which means for leafy greens and watery vegetables like capsicum (bell peppers), you should fry them quickly before layering them in the strata otherwise your egg mixture won’t set because it will become too watery.
I made one big one which takes 30 minutes to bake, but you could also make this in ramekins (4 x 1 1/2 cup capacity) and it will bake in only 15 minutes. This is my ultimate midweek dinner in a snap. What’s your speedy midweek meal tip?
