Baked Chicken and Spinach Stuffing

Ingredients: (Although Pillsbury products are listed here, you can use any brand)
4-5 frozen homestyle waffles
About a half cup of syrup
2 tablespoons peach preserves
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
2 bone-in skin-on chicken breasts (1 lb.)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1/2 cup chopped onion (1 medium)
1/4 cup chicken broth
1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh sage
1 tablespoon beaten egg white
1 box (9 oz) Green Giant® frozen spinach, thawed and drained, or 1 1/2 cups Green Giant® frozen cut leaf spinach (from 1 lb. bag)
1 tablespoon chopped pecans

Directions:
*Heat oven to 350°F.
*Spray 9-inch glass pie plate or 8-inch square pan with cooking spray.
*In small bowl, mix syrup, the preserves and Worcestershire sauce.
*Place chicken, skin side up, in pie plate; sprinkle with salt and pepper.
*Spoon syrup mixture over chicken.
*Bake uncovered 40 to 45 minutes.
*Meanwhile, toast waffles until golden brown.
*Cool slightly, about 2 minutes.
*Cut waffles into 3/4-inch cubes; set aside.
*Spray 1-quart casserole with cooking spray (or use 9x5-inch nonstick loaf pan; do not spray).
*In 10-inch nonstick skillet, melt butter over medium heat.
*Add onion, cook and stir 2 minutes or until tender.
*Stir in waffle pieces and broth, breaking up waffle pieces slightly to moisten.
*Sprinkle with poultry seasoning and sage.
*Remove from heat, cool about 5 minutes.
*Stir in egg white and spinach.
*Spoon stuffing into casserole.
*Sprinkle pecans over top.
*Twenty minutes before chicken is done, place casserole in oven next to chicken in pie plate.
*Spoon syrup mixture in pie plate over chicken.
*Bake chicken and stuffing uncovered 20 to 25 minutes longer or until juice of chicken is clear when thickest part is cut to bone (170°F) and stuffing is thoroughly heated.
*Spoon remaining syrup mixture from pie plate over chicken.
*Serve chicken with stuffing.

Serves: 2

Source:  This recipe was featured on Oprah several years ago...it one a million dollars in a Pillsbury cookoff :)



Submitted by: Annie Distelzweig

*Personal Note: I LOVE stuffing...and this is a yummy, down home cookin type meal :)