Chicken, Spinach and Feta Mini Loaves with Dill Mashed Potato Topping

While I was looking at my new found food blog of Didi Dabala with eagerness and anticipation in October 2016, I came upon the newest recipe that was posted in it: Turkey, Spinach and Feta Mini Loaves with Dill Mashed Potato Topping and this seemed to be exactly what I was looking for to do for dinner that night and it also seemed to be super easy! Except that turkey meat is not available in our local markets during this time and so I decided to do it with chicken! The mini loaves so looked like beautiful cup cakes!!! Recipe here: http://www.dishinwithdidi.com/2016/10/turkey-spinach-feta-mini-loaves-with.html

Makes 6 mini loaves

Ingredients

Mini Loaves

• 225 grams chicken mince
• 1/2 egg, beaten
• 1/4 cup oats (I had only steel cut oats though the original recipes instructs not to use steel cut oats)
• 1/2 bunch fresh spinach, blanched, squeezed and chopped (the original recipe calls for 512 grams frozen spinach, chopped and squeezed)
• 1/2 cup feta cheese, crumbled
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 tsp onion powder
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tbsp Italian seasoning (I used homemade one: mix 1 tbsp dried basil, dried parsley, dried oregano each, 1/3 tbsp garlic powder, 1/3 tsp onion powder, thyme, rosemary each, pinch pepper powder, roasted pepper flakes together to get about 4 tbsp seasoning)

Mashed Potato

• 2 cups mashed potato (Boil 2 large potatoes, about 500 grams) till tender but firm and mash it with a potato ricer or a grater (I used the murrukku mould). Melt 2 tbsp butter and 1/2 cup milk till butter is melts and blend it with the mashed potato until smooth and creamy)
• 1/4 tsp onion powder
• 1/4 tsp dried dill
• pinch salt and pepper
• 1/2 egg
  

Preparation

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
• Add all the ingredients for the mini loaves in a bowl and mix them thoroughly.
• Place them in a muffin mould sprayed with a cooking spray. (As I do not have a built in oven and do all my baking in the convection oven of my microwave oven, I used small glass bowls and brushed them with oil.)
• Bake them for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile prepare the mashed potatoes and place them in a plastic bag.
• When the mini loaves are done, take them out and pipe the mashed potato topping over them. If you are using the muffin mould, you have to take the mini loaves out of the moulds and place them on a baking sheet.)
• Return to the oven for another 10 to 15 minutes when the potatoes start to become golden. 
• Remove from the oven, let rest for about 5 minutes and serve with salad of choice.