Chicken Scallops With Spinach And Blue Cheese

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 lbs fresh baby spinach, stemmed,washed,and drained,but not dried
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 6 chicken breast halves, pounded into cutlets
• 3 tablespoons pine nuts, lightly toasted
• 3 ounces blue cheese, crumbled

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 400ºf.
• 2 pour half the olive oil into a very large frying pan to film the bottom.
• 3 over low heat, gradually add the spinach by handfuls, cover, and stir from time to time as it cooks down.
• 4 when all the spinach is barely wilted, put it in a sieve and press out most of the moisture.
• 5 spread the spinach in a wide, shallow ovenproof dish and set aside.
• 6 salt and pepper the chicken cutlets on both sides.
• 7 add the remaining oil to the pan and over medium-high heat saute the chicken, turning to color it golden on both sides.
• 8 when the chicken is done, lay the cutlets on the spinach.
• 9 in a small bowl, mix together the pine nuts and blue cheese.
• 10 scatter this mixture over the chicken (this much can be done ahead).
• 11 bake the chicken until the cheese is melted and bubbling and the chicken and spinach are piping hot, about 15 minutes.
• 12 serve at once.