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Home » Blog » Recipes » Spinach, Chickpea and Date Chicken Roll­Ups
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Spinach, Chickpea and Date Chicken Roll­Ups

Avatar photoCallie Blount • Sep 17, 2016 (Updated: Aug 20, 2019)
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Spinach, Chickpea and Date Chicken Roll­Ups

SPINACH CHICKEN DATE ROLL UPS

Roll up your chicken around a delicious filling of chickpeas, dates and spinach.  A gorgeous and delicious healthy dinner. 

Spinach, Chickpea and Date Chicken Roll­Ups

Spinach, Chickpea and Date Chicken Roll­Ups

Prep Time 30 minutes mins
Cook Time 30 minutes mins
Total Time 1 hour hr
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Servings

6 Servings

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon vegan butter
  • 2 tablespoons minced garlic
  • 10 dried pitted dates
  • 1 16-oz. can organic garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 9-ounce bag fresh spinach
  • 3 Wise Organic chicken breasts
  • Pinch smoked paprika
  • Salt and pepper for seasoning chicken

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F degrees. Spray 8 by 8 inch glass baking dish with cooking spray. 
  • Pour hot water over dates; cover with plastic wrap and allow to rest for 10 minutes. Drain dates and chop them into small pieces.
  • Heat large nonstick skillet on medium; add vegan butter. 
  • Add garlic, saute for 30 seconds, or until fragrant, then add dates; saute 30 more seconds. Add chickpeas, salt, and pepper. Saute 3 minutes, stirring frequently. 
  • Add spinach in small batches to the chickpea mixture, stirring until it is incorporated, dark green, and wilted. Remove mixture from heat, put into bowl and allow to cool slightly. 
  • While spinach mixture is cooling, place chicken breast on cutting board. Add three layers paper towels, then flatten chicken breast to about ¼ inch thickness using a meat mallet or rolling pin. Season each breast with salt and pepper. 
  • Add about 2 tablespoons spinach mixture to each pounded chicken breast. Roll breast around mixture; sprinkle tops of chicken with smoked paprika and additional salt and pepper. Use a toothpick if needed to hold filling inside breast. 
  • Place chicken side by side in glass baking dish. 
  • Bake chicken for 25­-30 minutes, or until internal temperature reaches 165°F degrees. Remove from oven and tent chicken with foil for five minutes; save additional spinach filling to serve with chicken. 
Category: Recipes
Cuisine: French
Holidays: Rosh HashanahSukkot
Diets: Gluten FreeHealthyMeatChicken
Styles: Bake

About Callie Blount

Callie absolutely, positively loves to cook and create. As a food & prop stylist and video personality,  it’s the kind of love she grew up learning in the South. The kind of feeling that’s so authentic it’s more like a Steel Magnolias, “I love ya more than my luggage” type of luv. And that love of cooking was equal to the love that came from cooking- meals shared with her family and friends, dishes brought to church picnics and baby showers, the first pie she baked for Thanksgiving. It always felt like the best way to put someone at ease- and to help meet whatever need they had: companionship, comfort, a listening ear. Or, as her Southern momma always said, “I mean, you have to eat!”It was her culture’s way to say “You are important. So important that you are worthy of our family’s signature Big Mama poundcake/homemade banana bread/poppyseed chicken casserole.”Luv Cooks is her best attempt to help you fall in love with cooking- and creating- like she has. The l-u-v-kind of love. The luv of food, people, beauty, life, joy- and a bit of Southern culture to keep things spicy. Simply put, when you love what you do, and who you do it for: Luv Cooks

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  1. Tamar Genger MA, RD

    Sep 17, 2023 at 7:40 pm

    I don’t think it needs one.

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  2. Penny

    Sep 14, 2023 at 4:14 pm

    This looks delicious. Does it need a sauce? If so, what do you recommend?

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