Treat yourself with pulled chicken lasagne with spinach and courgette
Our cyclists need to eat a lot while cycling to maintain their energy levels. But what exactly do they eat and what is the best food for while cycling? Our FoodCoaches have put together a delicious pasta dish for four people, or for two hungry endurance athletes: pulled chicken cream sports lasagne with spinach and courgette! Read the recipe below in our Jumbo Food Friday.
Ingredients for four people:
250 g whole-wheat lasagne sheets
Sauce:
2 tbsp olive oil
150 gr onion, finely chopped
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
500 ml chicken stock
4 tbsp flour of your choice (e.g. spelt flour)
250 ml Jumbo Cooking Dairy 7% Fat
500 gr washed spinach
350 g courgette in thin half slices
Cheese mixture:
250 gr ricotta
220 gr Goldsteig mozzarella 8.5%
200 ml egg white
2 tbsp parsley, finely chopped
Pulled chicken:
400 gr organic chicken breast
Pepper and salt to taste
Preparation:
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a frying pan. Cut the chicken breast into two pieces and fry and stew the chicken until done with the lid on the pan. Remove the chicken from the pan once cooked and leave covered to cool on a plate. Heat a tall frying pan or wok with 1 tbsp olive oil. Fry the garlic and onion. Add the chicken stock and, using a whisk, whisk in the flour spoon by spoon. Pour in the cream and cook gently for 5-8 minutes until the sauce has the thickness of gravy. Remove from the heat and set aside.
3. In a pan with a little water, briefly fry the courgette and spinach so that they shrink slightly. Stir this into the sauce and leave to cool.
4. In a bowl, mix the ricotta with the egg white, parsley, pepper and salt. Set aside.
5. Pull the cooled chicken breast apart into long strands.
6. Build up the lasagne layer by layer: start with some sauce, top with some lasagne sheets, then a layer of chicken with some cheese mixture on top, followed by lasagne sheets and sauce again. Repeat until all ingredients are used up.
7. Garnish with the mozzarella, salt and pepper (and any remaining sauce).
8. Bake the lasagne in the oven for about 40-60 minutes.
Serve with a slice of whole-wheat toast and a fresh salad of tomato, cucumber and julienne carrot (in a bowl, mix: 4 diced vine tomatoes, 150g grated carrot, 20g toasted almond shavings, 2 tbsp white wine vinegar, 1 tbsp honey; mix and you're done!).
Enjoy your meal!
Jumbo is the ‘Official Food Partner’ of Team Visma | Lease a Bike. They supply us with high-quality food that we use to prepare delicious dishes. Thanks to Jumbo, our riders get the best nutrition for optimal performance.
Want to discover exactly how much you should be eating? The FoodCoach App will help you focus and translate your nutrition recommendations into actual food and meals on your plate.
The Athlete's FoodCoach Premium app can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play Store and then used in conjunction with a subscription, which costs users 10 euros a month. It can also be purchased on an annual basis. The price is then fifty euros.
