Stuffed Chicken Thighs with a Mushroom Spinach Cream Sauce over Jasmine Rice

Per Scott’s request of chicken and rice… With a twist :p This could serve four… Or two with a leftover lunch since Scott was madddddd hungry tonight lol.

Ingredients:

• 8oz mushrooms; halved and sliced thin
• 5oz baby spinach; chopped
• 4 skinless chicken thighs
• ½ c heavy whipping cream
• 1/8 c grated parmesan cheese
• 2 green onions; sliced thin
• 1 c jasmine rice; dry
• 2 Tbsp garlic; minced
• 2 Tbsp butter
• 4 Tbsp EVOO

Directions:

•  Using a rice cooker; cook the 1 c of jasmine rice. When cooked, set aside. Preheat the oven or toaster oven, which is what I used, to 350 degrees.
• While the rice is cooking cook the rest of the meal.
• Heat 1 Tbsp EVOO and 1 Tbsp butter over medium high heat in pan. Add half of the sliced mushrooms. Cook until caramelized. Add 1 Tbsp garlic, cook until fragrant then add ¾ of the spinach. Cook until wilted then take off the heat.
• Take the thighs and pound them out with a mallet until ¼" thick; season with salt and pepper.
• Put ¼ of the mushroom and spinach mixture onto each thigh and then roll up. You can toothpick them to stay together though I didn’t.
• Heat 2 Tbsp EVOO in pan. Add the thighs seam side down. This is especially important if you didn’t use toothpicks, doing this will help seal the thighs together. Brown till golden on all sides of the thigh.
• Remove thighs and place on pan and cook in oven for another 20 minutes.
• While thighs cook, start the sauce. Heat 1 Tbsp EVOO and 1 Tbsp butter over medium high heat in pan. Add the other half of the sliced mushrooms. Cook until caramelized. Add 1 Tbsp garlic, cook until fragrant then add the rest of the spinach and green onions. Cook until wilted then add cream and parmesan cheese. Stir to incorporate and leave on very low until chicken is done.
• When chicken is done plate dish by putting rice down first then add the chicken and then top with the sauce.

Once again, I’m pretty sure Scott ate too fast to know what he was eating… But I think that’s a good sign that he liked it :) Enjoy!