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Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken

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This recipe was originally published on July 13, 2014, and updated with new photos and content on June 28, 2017.

Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken: Quick, easy and delicious pan-seared chicken with an amazingly flavorful sun dried tomatoes sauce! It’s a 30-minute, one pan meal that you can’t resist!

Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken: Quick, easy and delicious pan-seared chicken with an amazingly flavorful sun dried tomatoes sauce! It's a 30-minute, one pan meal that you can't resist!

Happy day, pal! Hope you’re having a wonderful summer-week!

For me, if it involves outdoor dining with my beautiful best friends and a couple of wine glasses, it means I had a fantastic week/weekend!

Also? My kids spent the night at my mom’s! AND! I got to sleep in!! And and! I ate ice cream for breakfast!
Don’t be jelly… it only happens like thrice a year. But I’ll take it!

Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken: Quick, easy and delicious pan-seared chicken with an amazingly flavorful sun dried tomatoes sauce! It's a 30-minute, one pan meal that you can't resist!

Soooo. Look at that. My chicken-craze continues…

Are you totally sick and tired of seeing chicken-posts?? #sorrynotsorry. No, really, I’m not even a little bit sorry because this Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken is about to become the best thing you’ve ever had!
Weeeeell, that’s until the next time that I post a recipe and then THAT ONE will be the best thing you’ve ever had.

Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken: Quick, easy and delicious pan-seared chicken with an amazingly flavorful sun dried tomatoes sauce! It's a 30-minute, one pan meal that you can't resist!

We gotta talk about this creamy sun-dried tomato sauce chicken. Omg. I didn’t really know where I was going with this or what was going to unfold, but all I knew at that first-bite-moment was that I need to write a cookbook and call it “50 Shades of Chicken”. 😉

It all started on a one unassuming, sunny, summery afternoon… it was last week.

Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken: Quick, easy and delicious pan-seared chicken with an amazingly flavorful sun dried tomatoes sauce! It's a 30-minute, one pan meal that you can't resist!

I went to clean the pantry and much to my surprise, I found not one but TWO jars of sun dried tomatoes. I was surprised because we don’t buy them that often, but when we do, I use them up as soon as possible. They’re so good! Not sure how I let these slide by…

Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken: Quick, easy and delicious pan-seared chicken with an amazingly flavorful sun dried tomatoes sauce! It's a 30-minute, one pan meal that you can't resist!

I should also tell you that during my pantry clean-up, I found a barbie doll in there and a furry toy that totally scared the bejesus out of me because I thought it was a rat. EWWWW!!!

SO THEN, right after my “ew-that’s-gross-feeling” went away, it was clear. I knew what I had to do. Nothing was going to change my mind.
It was time to take out the silver pan and cook-up some chicken breasts.

Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken: Quick, easy and delicious pan-seared chicken with an amazingly flavorful sun dried tomatoes sauce! It's a 30-minute, one pan meal that you can't resist!

So some breasts were “seared”, then some sauce was made, and scoops of sun dried tomatoes brought the whole thing together. Theeeee End.

ENJOY!

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Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken: Quick, easy and delicious pan-seared chicken with an amazingly flavorful sun dried tomatoes sauce! It's a 30-minute, one pan meal that you can't resist!
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Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken

Quick, easy and delicious pan-seared chicken with an amazingly flavorful sun dried tomatoes sauce! It's a 30-minute, one pan meal that you can't resist!

Course Dinner
Cuisine Italian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 4 Serves
Calories 262 kcal
Author Katerina | Diethood

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 4 (16 ounces) chicken breasts
  • salt and fresh ground pepper , to taste
  • 1 large yellow onion , diced
  • 3 to 4 garlic cloves , minced
  • 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • 1 cup chicken broth or vegetable broth
  • 1/3 cup sun dried tomatoes in oil

Instructions

  1. In a large nonstick skillet heat olive oil over medium-high heat.
  2. Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
  3. Add chicken breasts to hot oil and cook 4 minutes; flip and continue to cook for 4 minutes or until browned on both sides.
  4. Remove chicken from skillet; set aside.
  5. Add onions, garlic and thyme leaves to skillet; cook for 3 minutes, stirring frequently.
  6. Stir in flour; mix until combined.
  7. Add broth and sun dried tomatoes.
  8. Return chicken to skillet; bring mixture to a boil.

  9. Turn heat down to a simmer; cover the skillet and continue to cook for 15 to 18 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through.

  10. Remove from heat.
  11. Serve.

Recipe Notes

Serve with pasta, mashed potatoes, rice, or a simple vegetable side dish. RECIPE SOURCE: DIETHOOD

WW SMART POINTS: 6

Nutrition Facts
Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken
Amount Per Serving
Calories 262 Calories from Fat 126
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 14g 22%
Saturated Fat 2g 10%
Cholesterol 72mg 24%
Sodium 389mg 16%
Potassium 620mg 18%
Total Carbohydrates 6g 2%
Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
Sugars 1g
Protein 25g 50%
Vitamin A 3.5%
Vitamin C 16.4%
Calcium 1.6%
Iron 5.8%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Comments

  1. This looks absolutely delicious! I love sun dried tomatoes. I will definitely be trying this soon.

    PS I really like that book title idea! 😉

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  2. Hi, I was wondering if you had the smartpoints or the nutritional information for this recipe? It looks delicious by the way!

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    • Hi! The nutrition facts were there, but they somehow disappeared! So sorry about that and thank you for letting me know! 🙂 I’ve updated the recipe to include all the nutrition facts.

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  5. I almost have no words to describe how delicious this recipe is, and that is really something for me as I am a wordy person in general. I really am not the biggest fan of sun dried tomatoes but I usually have some on hand that are left over from another recipe and the question is, how do I use these up? Now I know the answer to that question. This chicken was so far beyond amazing — I lost track of how many times my husband said it was “really, REALLY good” during dinner last night. He was still talking about it this morning! That rarely happens. So, thank you Katerina for sharing this wonderful recipe. I only wish i had found your blog sooner. Best to you and yours this holiday season.

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  6. Looks Yummy and obviously it should taste too :)….i usually prefer adding tomatoes to chicken for tangy taste ..next time i will be surely trying with sun dried tomatoes.

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    • Hi Gale! This isn’t prepared in the oven, and I never have prepared it in the oven, so I can’t say if it will even work. Do you mean to prepare the entire dish earlier in the day and then just reheat it in the oven? The sauce will be thick once it’s cooled down, but the heat will help to make it runny again. I hope this helps! Have a great day!!

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  8. Got my husband to make this for dinner, and wow what a winner! (Winner, winner, Chicken Dinner). Actually I wanted to make it; I’m not an accomplished cook, but I thought I could manage this. But he beat me to it. So I ate all the leftovers 🙂 Thanks for the recipe, it’s going on high rotation in our kitchen! Julie

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  10. I have no oven, so this recipe was exactly what I needed to get my chicken fix. Sadly, I didn’t have any dried tomatoes, so I had to use fresh ones. The end result, though, was excellent. Thanks for sharing this awesome idea!

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  13. That looks amazing! I’d love this dish. Not sure I can say the same for my kids. I’m still waiting for the day that they will willingly eat tomatoes. I the meantime I get to eat this and the leftovers.
    Scrumptious!

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  23. This dish seems quite elegant. I’d replace some of the stock with white wine and serve this with a tasty rice dish to sop up the resulting juice. Great way to use up pantry ingredients … something I’ve been doing for the last year. And it’s not getting much emptier.

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  27. Can I just tell you that your writing makes me smile every time! You write better in English than most native speakers. Your cooking though is definitely not English! You have to come from Eastern Europe to cook like this! Lovely!! 🙂

    Reply

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  1. […] Pan-Seared Chicken Breasts with Sun-Dried Tomatoes via Diethood: Diethood is quickly becoming one of my favorite food blogs. You may notice I’m regularly including dinners that I make from her. She’s just got lots of really tasty, healthy recipes that end up being huge hits. This dinner was made on a night when I was feeding myself (again) but I really enjoyed it. Instead of using regular chicken breasts, I used chicken breast fillets. they were much thinner but still paired well with the meal. […]

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