One Skillet Chicken Dinner
You will have the whole One Skillet Chicken Dinner done and on the table in 25 minutes or less.
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Put a skillet on at medium high and add enough olive oil to coat the bottom. Using a dishwasher safe cutting board cut up the chicken breast or tenders into about 1″ chunks. Add them to the skillet and stir them around a little. Sprinkle with a little salt, pepper, garlic powder and dried basil.
Stir the chicken around a few times as it cooks. While it is cooking rinse the string beans, trim off the stumpy ends and cut them in halves or thirds. Chop up the onion.
Add the veggies, the gnocchi and the tomatoes to your one skillet chicken dinner.
Mix it all together. Bring it up to a fast simmer and lower the heat just enough to maintain the simmer. Light up the broiler. Stir everything in the skillet a few more times as it all cooks. When the pasta – gnocchi – has softened to the nibble test top it all off with a layer of shredded mozzarella then a layer of grated parmesan. Some dried parsley and even some red pepper flakes if want.
Put the skillet under the broiler until the cheese has cooked to the point that YOU want it.
Then serve up your One Skillet Chicken Dinner.
Here is another quick and easy chicken dinner
One Skillet Chicken Dinner
Ingredients
- olive oil
- 1 large boneless skinless chicken breast or 3-4 tenders
- black pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 and 1/2 cups fresh string beans cut into halves or thirds
- 1/2 medium fresh onion chopped
- 1 and 1/2 cups potato gnocchi
- 1 15 oz. can diced tomatoes or canned marinara or your own marinara
- 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley
- 1 tablespoon red pepper flakes optional
Instructions
- Put a skillet on at medium high and add enough olive oil to coat the bottom. Using a dishwasher safe cutting board cut up the chicken breast or tenders into about 1" chunks. Add them to the skillet and stir them around a little. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, garlic powder and dried basil.
- Stir the chicken around a few times as it cooks. While it is cooking rinse the string beans, trim off the stumpy ends and cut them in halves or thirds. Chop up the onion.
- Add the veggies, the gnocchi and the tomatoes to the skillet.Mix it all together. Bring it up to a fast simmer and lower the heat just enough to maintain the simmer. Light up the broiler. Stir everything in the skillet a few more times as it all cooks. When the pasta - gnocchi - has softened to the nibble test top it all off with a layer of shredded mozzarella then a layer of grated parmesan. Some dried parsley and even some red pepper flakes if want.
- Put the skillet under the broiler until the cheese has cooked to the point that YOU want it. Then serve up your One Skillet Chicken Dinner.
