Chicken Lasagna with Spinach and Fresh Cheese

Ingredients:

• Lasagna noodles for 4 layers
• 2-2.5cups of shredded mozzarella
• 1/2 cup of grated parmesan
• 
  Chicken and spinach stuffing:
  
• 1lb-1.5lb of chicken breasts
• 1 onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• 10-12 oz fresh baby spinach
• 3/4 lb of fresh white cheese (quark) or ricotta
• Fresh parsley
• 2 tablespoons of oil
• Herbs: dried basil, dried oregano to taste
• Salt
• 
  Bechamel (white) sauce:
  
• 1/2 cup of butter (1 stick)
• 3.5 cups of milk
• 1/2 cup of flour
• Salt

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients:

   

2. Start by making chicken-spinach stuffing with fresh cheese. First warm up deep skillet with 1-2 tablespoons of oil, peel and chop onions, fry them over moderated heat until lightly colored:

   

3. Then peel and chop garlic, add to onions and fry them together until soft, stir from time to time:

   

4. Rinse and finely chop chicken, add to the skillet and fry until cooked, add dried basil and oregano:
   

   

   

   

   
   
5. Rinse spinach, remove hard steams (if any) and gradually add it to the skillet (during cooking its volume will decrease, so eventually you will be able to add all 10oz):

   

6. After all spinach is in, salt it all to taste, mix and set skillet aside:

   

7. In large bowl mash fresh cheese with a fork, add chopped fresh parsley and mix:
   

   

   

   

   
   
8. Mix fresh cheese and parsley with chicken and spinach:

   

9. Now it is time for white sauce – it is important to stir it all the time while cooking so it doesn’t burn. First melt all butter in large sauce pan:

   

10. Gradually stir all flour in until blended:

    

11. Cook until bubbly:

    

12. Warm up all milk in microwave and still in gradually into the flour and butter mixture:

    

13. Stir until homogeneous, salt to taste and bring to boil, remove from burner:

    

14. Turn oven on 355F and let’s assemble lasagna while oven is warming up: lay bottom of baking pan with a layer of lasagna noodles (1/4 of all noodles), leave a bit of space from sides, lasagna will increase during cooking:

    

15. Spread 1/3 of chicken-spinach-cheese mix:

    

16. Cover with a 1/4 of white sauce:

    

17. And spread about 1/3 of mozzarella cheese:

    

18. Cover with other 1/4 of lasagna noodles:

    

19. And repeat last 4 steps for 2 sets of more layers:

    

20. Then cover with last layer of noodles:

    

21. Spread over remaining of white sauce and put to oven warmed up to 355F for 30-35 mins:

    

22. Then take baking pan with lasagna out, season with shredded parmesan cheese and put back to oven for 10 mins more:

    

23. Remove baking pan from the oven and let it stand for 10-15 mins before splicing up:

    

24. Then serve: