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One Skillet Chicken Dinner-8-poppopcooks.com

One Skillet Chicken Dinner

Chicken, veggies and pasta all in one skillet.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Chicken, Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Servings 2

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.
    One Skillet Chicken Dinner-8-poppopcooks.com

Notes

You can use any kind of pasta instead of gnocchi. Gnocchi cooks in like 2-3 minutes and pasta in 8-10 minutes.
 
Keyword chicken, main course, One pot meal
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