Chicken and Spinach Skillet Dinner

Looking for more healthy chicken recipes, start with this one. Chicken and Spinach Skillet Dinner is an easy delicious dinner you can have on the table in no time at all. 

I had a busy day today mopping up my floors from all the rain mess.  First, my downstairs has no carpet, none.  The wooden floors that were installed are gorgeous, but not when they’re tracked up with muddy footprints. So the mop and bucket and I had a date. But then… you can’t have clean floors and not dust.  Lastly, why not wipe down the stove and the counters in the kitchen?  

 Just mopping the floors snowballed into an all-out clean fest.  Before I knew it, it was time for dinner.  After everything I cleaned, I wanted dinner to be fast, delicious and with minimal dishes to wash.  As a result, I looked straight to one of my healthy chicken and spinach recipes. Chicken and Spinach Skillet Dinner fit those requirements to a “T”.

My first memory of spinach

The first memory I have of eating spinach as a kid was at my grandparents’ house.  I remember sitting at the dinner table with my cousin looking down at my plate that had this glob of canned cooked to mush spinach sitting on it. Grandpa was doing his best to coax us into eating it. “If you eat it you’ll be big and strong just like Popeye,” he said.  All I kept thinking as I sat there looking at it was, I wanna be like Yogi Bear and eat what’s in the picnic basket, Grandpa.

Generally, that was my idea of spinach for a long time. 

However, fast forward 50 plus years (cause that’s about how long it took me to get the vision of that green mushy canned blob of spinach out of my head) to a grown woman who loves fresh green spinach from the garden or cooked in a dish until it’s just wilted so it retains it gorgeous color and texture. What a difference fresh makes! 

Maybe you’re in the same position. Maybe you’re trying to get someone you know to like spinach. Chicken is a great place to start. You can take something they are already comfortable with and add spinach. Maybe you are here because you are looking for some healthy chicken and spinach recipes. You made the right choice by starting with this chicken and spinach recipe.

Let’s gather the ingredients for Chicken and Spinach Skillet Dinner and make this chicken and spinach recipe together.

Chicken and Spinach Skillet Dinner Ingredients:

• 2 large boneless chicken breasts cut into strips
• 1 medium onion, diced
• 2 Tablespoons olive oil
• One – 14 1/2 oz can diced tomatoes, undrained
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 Teaspoon dried basil
• 1/2 Teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 Teaspoon black pepper
• a 1/2 Teaspoon salt
• 1/2 Teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 cup baby spinach, packed tight

Chicken and spinach recipe: The Steps

Place the olive oil in a saute pan over medium to high heat. Add the boneless chicken strips to the pan. Cook and stir the chicken strips until they are browned about 10 minutes. Add the diced onion to the pan and cook until the onions are soft.

Add the undrained tomatoes and water to the pan. Stir the mixture around a little bit to mix everything together.

Place all the spices and seasoning together in a little bowl and swirl them together. Add them to the skillet and mix to combine everything well. Bring the mixture up to a boil while stirring.  Reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer for about 5 minutes.

After five minutes, remove the lid and add the fresh spinach to the pan. Next, cook and stir until the spinach begins to wilt. In general, you want the spinach to retain its gorgeous green color and texture. As a rule, it doesn’t need to cook any longer than it takes to wilt it.

Chicken and Spinach Skillet: The Dinner

In this case, this skillet dinner was sooooo good!  In the first place, it has a nice fresh taste and was very easy to put together. Also, I didn’t feel like messing with side dishes so I served it with long grain rice that I cooked in chicken broth.  Perfection!  I loved it and I was out of the kitchen in no time at all. To summarize, Chicken and Spinach Skillet Dinner, definitely a keeper, homemade goodness from my house to yours, ENJOY!

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Chicken and Spinach Skillet Dinner

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time20 minutes mins

Total Time35 minutes mins

Course: dinner

Cuisine: American

Keyword: #chicken, chicken and spinach dinner, Skillet dinner, spinach

Servings: 4

Author: Mary Malone

Ingredients

• 2 large boneless chicken breasts cut into strips
• 1 medium onion diced
• 2 Tablespoons olive oil
• One – 14 1/2 oz can diced tomatoes undrained
• 1 /4 cup water
• 1 teaspoon dried basil
• 1/2 Teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 Teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 cup baby spinach packed tight

Instructions

• Place the oil in a saute pan on medium to high heat. Add the chicken strips,cook and stir until browned, about 10 minutes. Add the diced onion to the pan, cook until onion is soft.
• Add the undrained tomatoes, water and seasonings to the pan, bring to a boil while stirring. Reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer about 5 minutes. Add the spinach, cook and stir until the spinach begins to wilt. Serve over long grain rice that was cooked in chicken broth.

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