I had a menu all planned out for this week then I found this post on Pinterest and couldn’t resist! I’m a sucker for one dish meals.
The basic recipe is this:
4-6 raw chicken breasts, new potatoes, green beans (fresh or canned-really any green veggie would work. Broccoli is good, too). Arrange in 9×13 dish. Sprinkle with a packet of Italian dressing mix and then top with a melted stick of butter. Cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
Here is How I Changed it:
3 Chicken breasts
2 cups frozen green beans
3/4 cup carrots
3 red potatoes
1 stick of butter – melted
1/2 packet of dry Italian dressing mix or 2 tbsp GF seasoning blend
1 tbsp chopped onion
salt & pepper
season salt
garlic powder
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cut up veggies if needed. Spray 9×13 dish with cooking spray. Place green beens and carrots on one side, chicken in the middle and potatoes on the other side. Top chicken with italian seasoning. Top green beans / carrots with salt and pepper, garlic powder and half the onion. Top potatoes with salt and pepper, season salt and remaining onion. Pour melted butter over all items. Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour.
HOLY COW is this tasty and OH so simple! You could add any veggies you want. The flavor is great and the chicken comes out moist and the veggies come out just soft enough.
This will be added to our regular routine. It is customizable to you pantry and family needs. This would also be a great meal to take to someone who is sick or just home with a new baby. One dish full of meat and veggies!
Enjoy!
Can I cook this with frozen chicken?
I just tried to! Just took twice as long in the oven…even with the temperature turned up. The potatoes weren’t done within an hour for me either…so it worked out that it kept cooking. Definitely a tasty dish though, I’d make it again!
I normally partially thaw the chicken for this dish. I have made it with completely frozen chicken and it just took longer like Jennifer said. Also I find it is best to cut the potatoes in smaller pieces to help them cook.
Thanks for stopping by!
Pam
Any ideas on how to alter this dish for those who can’t eat butter?
Substitute extra virgin olive oil 🙂
Can you please tell me what gluten free italian dressing packet you use? Thank you!
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I am just curious to those of you that made the recipe and it took longer than an hour…exactly how long did it take for it to cook? Every time I’ve done a “cooked chicken recipe” like this in the past it just takes FOREVER for the meat to cook.
If the chicken is frozen it can take over an hour. You can always cut the chicken breast so it is thinner if you want a faster cooking time. Enjoy!
This looks like a great weeknight, simple meal.
I’m trying 2 versions tonight. One with boneless, skinless thighs and sweet potatoes. The other with bone-in thighs without the skin and mixed fingerling potatoes. Green beans in both. My daughters prefer sweet potatoes to regular potatoes, but I didn’t want the sweet potatoes to get too mushy. I’m thinking the boneless thighs will cook faster and will work with the sweet potatoes.
Sounds great! Let me know!