Ok, so I’m TOTALLY stoked about this recipe. If you’ve been following my blog for a while now, you know that I can’t go very long without my pizza fix. I’m from Chicago, can you blame me? It’s in our blood!
This recipe is a spin off of Toni’s Clean Pizza recipe but with a couple tweaks. It tastes like a combination of chicken parmesan and pizza!!
Mini Chicken Parm Bites Recipe
Ingredients:
- 16 oz extra lean ground chicken
- 1/3 cup oats
- 6 TBS liquid egg whites
- 1 cup low fat cottage cheese
- 12 TBS natural marinara sauce
- Pizza & Pasta Magic blend spice
The pan I used for this recipe was a muffin top pan. It’s not a normal muffin pan, the holes are much more shallow (like just a muffin TOP size). I knew it would be perfect for this recipe!
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Put the chicken into a bowl and add the oats and egg whites.
- Mix the ingredients together with your hands.
- Place about a golf ball size of the mixture into each of the 12 spots in the pan. Use all 16 oz of chicken for 12 equal portions.
- Before you put the chicken in the oven, sprinkle each one with Pizza & Pasta Magic blend spice. This is a new spice I found and it is seriously AMAZING. It smells like pizza is cooking in the oven…even though it’s just chicken and spices at this point 😉
- Bake the chicken at 425 for 20 minutes.
- Add 1 TBS of natural marinara sauce to each. I used Mezzetta Napa Valley Bistro because it’s all natural and very tasty!
- Divide up the 1 cup of cottage cheese between all 12. (My trick is to BLEND the cottage cheese in a blender to get rid of the chunky texture that I CAN’T STAND. I won’t normally eat cottage cheese, but it actually tastes GOOD when it’s blended and baked on this recipe!! Trust me on this one!)
- You can also get creative and add any other toppings you like.
- Sprinkle on more Pizza & Pasta Magic Blend spices.
- Put back in the overn (at 425) for 7-10 more minutes. This is to allow the toppings to heat up.
- ENJOY!!!
Nutritional Information:
Serving Size: 3 Chicken Parm Bites
Calories: 217
Fat: 5.5
Carbs: 9.7
Protein: 32.8!!!!!
I have a feeling this will become a staple in my house. I loved it and so did the BF! WOOHOO. Finding a clean food that I love is one of my favorite things in the world!! Can you tell I’m a bit excited about this one?!? <3
If you try this recipe, please leave a comment and let me know what you think!
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Those look good and super easy to make 🙂
This recipe is our absolute favorite clean-eating recipe to date. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am LOVING your blog; it is my saving grace as I am making thisvlifestyle change.
Awwww I’m so happy you liked it!!!
Made these last night and they are so becoming a weekly staple! My hubby loves ’em too!!
Yay!!! I’m so glad to hear that!!! Thanks for letting me know <3
Where did you get the spice mixture?
Kroger..our local grocery store.
Hey Erin! I’ve been a “silent follower” for quite some time and your posts keep me motivated to continue getting up at 4:50 am every day to hit the gym! Question, and sorry if you’ve already answered this, but what app are you using to calculate the nutrition of your recipes? I cook A LOT and having this on my iPhone would be so helpful! Thanks and good luck with the competition!!!!
Wow you rock for doing morning workouts! Those are so hard for me! I use the app called My Fitness Pal. It’s by far the best app I’ve found! Keep up the great work girl! <3
i will be making these today and I’m so excited! chicken parm is my fav and now that theres a clean version i can’t even deal haha thanks so much for this!
Yum great recipe-we do something similar in pie plate. Very yummy and filling.
While the idea of this recipe is good, I have to ask why cottage cheese and not ricotta? As an Italian who learned to cook from her Italian mother and grandmother, I would never ever use cottage cheese in an Italian recipe. I’ve seen people put it in lasagna and it makes me cringe. I think I will try this recipe but I will definitely be using ricotta cheese (and homemade marinara, not only does it take 5 minutes, it’s much more natural than your natural sauce from a jar and tastes 10 times better too).
Cottage cheese is made of casein protein which is a slow absorbing protein which will feed your muscles for longer. Ricotta cheese is made of whey protein which is quickly absorbed. I like to choose slow absorbing protein for these but feel free to tweak the recipe as you like 🙂