Nesting With Grace

by Brooke Christen

One Pan Chicken Dinner- A Family Favorite Dinner

I LOVE a quick, healthy, one-pan dinner. If I have to pull out multiple pans and tools, it isn’t the recipe for me. Are you like that? Kevin likes to get creative and do all the things I don’t like to do, and often we enjoy his creations, maybe not the mess, bless! I remember listening to a podcast “Happier” that talked about how often households do the “you cook, I’ll clean” but it often isn’t fair if the person who cooks doesn’t clean-up as they go. So we do, “you cook, you clean up” and take turns cooking. Works for us! And works better for our marriage to plan our meals, so we aren’t doing elaborate things when we have a million things going at night. Communication, and planning we are learning. Today I am sharing the easy one-pan chicken dinner that Kevin actually came up with. A dinner I can get on-board with, a one pan dinner! Hope you love it as much as we do!

This one-pan chicken dinner serves about 5-6 people. It takes about an hour total. 5-10 minutes prep, and 50 minutes to cook. This is the only thing we eat for the meal, we don’t add on rolls or salad. Keep it simple! PS- Oven Pan HERE
Chicken, carrots, potatoes and onions are what we use in our one-pan chicken dinner. I like to buy a bag of organic baby carrots for this meal, makes it really fast and they are the perfect size. Also onions are SO good in this, I like to do a large onion cut into large chunks, but you could easily do what you prefer. And lastly the petite potatoes are my kids favorite part! PS- Plates HERE
We like to use a chicken breast, chicken thigh and chicken drumsticks. If you go to your local store and they don’t have this option ready to buy, you can ask the butcher to cut up an entire chicken so you get all this!
For the seasoning it really can be whatever you prefer, following the measurements we did. We do 1/2 cup olive oil mixed with 1/2 cup salad dressing (whatever dressing we have, my personal favorite dressing’s are anything Primal Kitchen or Tessemae’s). Then salt, pepper, garlic powder and any other spices you like, Kevin used a Montreal steak mix.
Drizzle the mixture over the top of your chicken and vegetables, evenly coating it. Then put in the oven for 50 minutes.
I especially love when the vegetables and skin on the chicken get crispy, so good!!! Recipe below, enjoy!

One Pan Chicken Dinner

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Servings 5 people

Ingredients
  

  • 8 pieces Chicken Breast and or Drumsticks and or Thighs with skin on
  • 2 cups Petite Potatoes
  • 2 cups Baby Carrots
  • 1 medium Onion cut to size of baby carrots
  • 1/2 cup Olive Oil
  • 1/2 cup Salad Dressing we used Brianna’s Cilantro Lime
  • 2 tsp Montreal Seasoning
  • 2 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Pepper
  • 1 tsp Garlic Powder

Instructions
 

  • Place chicken, potatoes, carrots and onions on roasting sheet (12"x18")
  • Mix oils, dressing and spices in a bowl
  • Drizzle mixture across chicken, then use a spatula to cover evenly over chicken
  • Bake @400 for 50-60 min, then broil for the last 2-3 for crispier skin
Enjoy your quick clean-up!
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