Quick Chicken Lasagna: No Time To Cook or Don’t Like To Cook

Quick Chicken Lasagna

It’s back to school season which means everyone is running in different directions and no one has time to put together a healthy, gourmet meal for the family. An easy answer to the problem, my Quick Chicken Lasagna. Throw together jarred pasta sauce, rotisserie chicken and no-boil noodles for a delicious, fast lasagna your entire family will love. A homemade lasagna doesn’t have to be time consuming or fattening when taking the trim&TERRIFIC route!

Quick Chicken Lasagna from Holly Clegg’s trim&TERRIFIC Diabetic Cooking

1 rotisserie chicken, skin removed and chicken cut into pieces (about 3 cups)
2 (26-ounce) jars fat-free reduced-sodium red pasta sauce
1 (8-ounce) package  no-boil lasagna noodles
2 cups shredded part-skim Mozzarella cheese
2 (10-ounce) packages  chopped frozen spinach, thawed and drained

1. Preheat oven 350˚F.

2. Combine chicken and pasta sauce. In an oblong baking dish, spread thin layer chicken sauce.

3.  Top with layer of noodles, one-third chicken sauce, Mozzarella cheese, half spinach. Repeat layering with noodles, chicken sauce, Mozzarella, remaining spinach. Continue with remaining ingredients.

4. Bake, covered, 50 minutes. Uncover, bake 5 minutes longer, or until bubbly.

Nutritional information per serving:
Calories 268, Protein (g) 24, Carbohydrate (g) 31, Fat (g) 5, Calories from Fat (%) 48, Saturated Fat (g) 2, Dietary Fiber (g) 4, Cholesterol (mg) 48, Sodium (mg) 588, Diabetic Exchanges: 3 very lean meat, 2 starch

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