Creamy Chicken with Sun Dried Tomatoes and Spinach

This creamy chicken with sun dried tomatoes and spinach is an easy weeknight meal that should definitely be on a weekly rotation and your go-to chicken dinner recipe.

creamy chicken recipe for easy weeknight meal

Why You’ll Love This Chicken with Sun Dried Tomatoes and Spinach

Creamy and flavorful and the sauce is the kind of sauce you want to scoop up with a good piece of bread.

This delicious dinner has all the makings of a perfect fall meal, creamy, earthy because of the spinach and nourishing.

Best of all, this entire chicken dinner recipe happens in one skillet. Layered delicious flavors do all the hard work, and you won’t have to do a ton of dishes.

How to Prepare this Creamy One Skillet Recipe

Lately this recipe has also been called “marry me” chicken. As it. is said someone will fall in love with you if you make it. Isn’t it funny how things get a rebrand?

“Marry me” chicken recipe is definitely a recipe you want to add to your menu, because the creamy tuscan sauce is simply delicious—you know, good enough to marry someone over it!

To make the marry me chicken, start by heating up your pan and after salt and peppering your chicken cutlets, you want to get a really nice sear on them. Once they are nice and browns on both sides, take the chicken out of the skillet.

Next, we build the marry me chicken sauce. We start with chopped onions and garlic and cook them down until they are translucent.

Next, add sun dried tomatoes and cook until soft and fragrant.

Add wine and mix everything gently and allow to simmer, until the wine is evaporated.

Then we add the heavy cream, and at the last minute add spinach.

Top with generous heaping spoons of fresh parmesan and serve immediately. And then report back if someone has claimed this as the best marry me chicken recipe and has in fact asked you to marry them 🙂

creamy chicken recipe for easy weeknight meal

Creamy Chicken with Sun Dried Tomatoes and Spinach Skillet

easy and delicious weeknight chicken dinner idea
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Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

  • 2 large boneless and skinless chicken breasts , halved horizontally to make 4 fillets
  • 1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes
  • 1/2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1/2 cup
    dry white wine
  • 2-3 cups fresh spinach
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • salt & pepper to taste

Instructions
 

  • Generously salt and pepper your chicken on both sides.
  • Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Fry the chicken until golden on each side, cooked through and no longer pink (about 5-6 minutes each side, depending on the thickness of your chicken). Transfer onto a warm plate.
  • Without cleaning out the pan, sauté the garlic until fragrant (about 1 minute). Then add the sun dried tomatoes.
  • Add wine, and cook until the wine has almost evaporated.
  • Reduce heat to low-medium heat, add the cream and bring to a gentle simmer, stirring occasionally.
  • Add spinach to the pan.
  • Season with salt and pepper to your taste. Add the chicken back into the pan. Cook for a few more minutes.

What To Serve with This Chicken Recipe

I like to serve this recipe with jasmine white rice or you can use brown rice.You can also serve it with cauliflower rice.

You can  serve this dish with pasta. I recommend a bigger noodle. There is a lot of sauce and it’s nice to have a heavier noodle take that on.

For the ultimate comfort type of meal though, try it with mashed potatoes. Something about mashed potatoes translates to the ultimate comfort food and that creamy sauce is perfect for the starchy carbs—of course you could also do it up with cauliflower mash, if you wanted to be on the healthier side.

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Alina Orozco

Alina Orozco is a freelance writer with a weakness for hot dogs, the beach, dinner parties and DIY projects. She lives in Orange County, California with her husband, their two boys and an oversized Beagle named Benny.