Chicken And Halloumi Traybake

Another Casserole dish recipe, yay. In my recent paella recipe, I told you how much I love cooking with casserole dishes and how it really helps people with busy lives. I love cooking with casserole dishes nearly as much as I love halloumi; I would eat it every day if I could. This traybake is easy to make any day of the week and contains all reasonably priced ingredients. It is so easy to throw all the ingredients in the dish, leave it in the oven and 30 minutes later be presented with a delicious and healthy meal that contains enough vegetables, protein, and carbohydrates.

It is a perfect balanced meal, if you want more protein or less carbohydrates just tweak the meal to your preferences for example adding more meat or using less potatoes.

This took 40 minutes in total, 30 minutes cooking time and roughly 10 minutes to prep the vegetables.

INGREDIENTS- serves 3 people

low calorie cooking spray

1 pepper, thinly sliced

1 courgette, thinly sliced

1 large carrot diced

1 red onion, peeled sliced

1 medium baking potato cut into chunks (roughly 2cm wide)

Black pepper

2 teaspoons of basil

2 large chicken thighs, cut into larger chunks (roughly 3-4cm wide)

200g halloumi cheese, sliced

STEP BY STEP-

1) Preheat the oven to 180 degrees fan oven

2) Put the vegetables in a casserole dish and cover with low calorie cooking spray, pepper and 1 teaspoon of basil.

3) Put the chicken pieces in the tray and spray with oil spray and sprinkle with remaining basil. Put the casserole dish in the oven for 25 minutes, ensure the chicken is not pink in the middle when you take it out of the oven.

4) Take the casserole dish out of the oven and change the oven setting to grill, put slices of halloumi cheese on top of the chicken pieces and any pieces remaining break up and put into the casserole dish.

5) Place under the grill for roughly 5 minutes, until the cheese is golden brown.

6) Take from under the grill and serve as one dish. Enjoy 😊

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION-

Per on serving- see picture for serving size.

Calories carbohydrates protein fats

423 21g 40g 20g

For more carbohydrates, add more potatoes, more protein add more chicken and for more fats add more halloumi.