One Dish Chicken Dinner

Do you know those annoying posts on Pinterest that lead to nowhere? Yeah, they're very disappointing. But that's what inspired this post. A yummy looking picture which led the hubs to ask me to make it for supper. With not too much creativity I came up with a recipe that I thought would do the misleading post justice.

(The portions in this recipe are for two people.)

One Dish Chicken Dinner

Cooking Ingredients:

4 chicken tenders or 2 chicken breasts

1 small bag frozen cut green beans

2 russet potatoes cut into bite sized chunks

1 package Italian salad dressing mix

1/2 stick melted butter

Cooking Directions:

1. Place chicken down the middle of a greased glass baking dish. Pour beans on one side of the chicken and potatoes on the other side.

2. Mix Italian dressing and melted butter in a small dish, then pour over chicken, beans, and potatoes.

3. Bake in oven at 350° for one hour.

Too easy right? The chicken was perfectly juicy, the potatoes were just soft enough, and there was just enough butter in the bottom of the dish to soak our home made rolls in! Plus, only one dish to clean? That's my kind of supper.

Enjoy!

Tortilla Rollups

Here's a fun twist for mexican night: Tortilla Rollups. The original recipe is from The Weekend Gourmet and can be found here. Feel free to mix it up and add what you like, take out what you don't, and let me know how your version turns out!

Tortilla Rollups

Cooking Ingredients:

1lb ground beef or shredded chicken
1/2 can whole kernel corn
1/2 can black beans
1 cup shredded cheese (I used a mexican blend, but feel free to use your favorite)
1 cup plain greek yogurt
1/2 cup salsa
1tsp cumin
1/2 tsp salt
the juice from 1 lime

8-1o flour tortillas
olive oil
chili powder

Cooking Directions:

1. Spray your baking pan with cooking spray (super important step that I forgot and you will see the disastrous result below!)

2. Brown your ground beef (or cook and shred your chicken). Mix together with corn, beans, cheese, yogurt, salsa, cumin, salt, and lime juice.

3. Place 1/2 cup of the above mixture onto a tortilla and roll up. Place roll ups in a baking pan seam side down. Continue until you use up all of your mix.

4. Brush olive oil on your roll ups, then sprinkle with chili powder.

5. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 5 minutes. Flip, coat with olive oil and sprinkle with chili powder, then bake for another 5 minutes. (I added a little extra cheese to a couple when I pulled them out of the oven, because the hubs loves cheese).

These rollups are very simple and very delicious. Plus, they make great leftovers!

But, please, remember to spray your pan first! Otherwise, you will end up with pieces of rollups… like I did in one of my pans.

P.S. I've made these before with shredded chicken instead of ground beef (actually I use ground venison) and they are just as tasty. Enjoy!