Creamy Garlic Spinach Chicken

Serve Over Rice, Noodles or Veggies

Often how my recipe development starts is I’ll have an ingredient in my fridge that is about to go bad and so I experiment different ways to cook that item to make sure it doesn’t go to waste. Often that ingredient is spinach. I always buy spinach with hopes that it’s going to go in a smoothie or I’m going to eat a salad for lunch and that never happens and normally I end up using it in a pasta, but instead I came up with this quick dish ready in under a half an hour. It’s full of flavour and is great to be served with any leftover roasted vegetables, rice or noodles!

Creamy Garlic Spinach Chicken

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• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cook Time: 20 minutes
• Total Time: about a half-hour

*Servings: 4

Ingredients:

• 4 Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 1 onion, diced
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 4 big handfuls of spinach
• 1 cup heavy cream
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated
• salt & pepper
• Olive oil

Instructions

1. Pound out chicken breasts on a cutting board with a meat mallet or a rolling pin until they are similar thickness throughout
2. Heavily season chicken breasts with salt and pepper
3. Add olive oil to a large skillet and once heated, add chicken breasts
4. Brown chicken breasts until browned on each side (about 5 minutes per side), until chicken is fully cooked through
5. Remove chicken from heat and set aside
6. Add onions and garlic to the skillet and saute until onions are translucent and garlic is fragrant
7. Add spinach and cook until it has completely wilted
8. Add the cream and lemon juice and simmer until it has begun to thicken
9. Taste and season with salt and pepper, to taste
10. Add chicken breasts back to the pan and top with parmesan cheese, mixing until well coated
11. Allow mixture to simmer for a few minutes and continuously coat chicken with the creamy spinach mixture
12. Serve with rice, noodles or vegetables