Easy chicken skillet dinner recipe prepared with seared chicken breasts, fresh spinach, artichokes, and a creamy cheese sauce. Quick enough for a weeknight meal, but also great for a special dinner party. Also a great keto dinner idea!
Find all of the amazing flavors of the classic spinach artichoke dip in this one skillet spinach artichoke chicken dinner
Also? This takes about 30 minutes to make + in just one skillet = that’s how we do dinner!
Spinach Artichoke Chicken Breasts
In this household, we LOVE anything that involves the combo of spinach and artichokes. From my healthy Baked Chicken with Spinach and Artichokes Recipe to my not so healthy Spinach Artichoke Pasta Alfredo Casserole, it is one of our favorite meal concoctions that we go back to time and time again.
Basically, it’s Chicken Breasts meet Spinach and Artichoke Dip in a wonderful and creamy dinner recipe … I meeeean, need I say more?
HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN BREASTS IN A SKILLET
- We add our chicken breasts to a hot oiled skillet and cook until done; remove chicken breasts from the skillet and set aside.
- Follow up with a bit of butter and garlic, then deglaze the skillet with either wine or chicken broth – your choice. (Wine, please! )
- Add chopped marinated artichokes to the skillet; cook for a couple minutes and stir in baby spinach. Cook for a minute or two before pouring in some half & half (or cream, or whole milk) AND cheese.
- Transfer chicken breasts back into the skillet; cook for several minutes and serve.
Simple, SO darn tasty, and very satisfying. You’ll see.
I like to serve it with a big side of my Radish and Cucumber Salad, but my husband prefers a big bowl of pasta. The choice is yours, but the salad will help balance things out.
LOOKING FOR MORE SPINACH ARTICHOKE DINNERS?
- Spinach and Artichoke Dip Quesadillas
- Spinach and Artichoke Dip Crock Pot Mashed Potatoes
- Spinach and Artichoke Dip Pizza
- One Pot Macaroni and Cheese with Spinach and Artichokes
ENJOY!
Spinach Artichoke Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 to 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano, if you like, you can use dried basil, rosemary, or thyme
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 cup low sodium chicken broth or dry white wine
- 2 cups marinated artichoke hearts, chopped
- 1 bag (6 ounces) baby spinach
- 1 cup half and half, you can also use milk or heavy cream
- 1/2 cup low fat part skim shredded mozzarella
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Heat olive oil over medium-high heat in a large skillet.
- Season chicken breasts with oregano, salt, and pepper.
- Add chicken breasts to the hot oil and cook until browned, about 5 to 6 minutes per side.
- Remove chicken from skillet and set aside.
- Melt butter in skillet; stir in garlic and cook for about 30 seconds, or until fragrant.
- Pour in chicken broth or wine; stir and continue to cook until liquid has reduced, about 3 minutes.
- Stir in artichokes; cook for 1 minute.
- Add in baby spinach and cook for 1 more minute, or until spinach is wilted.
- Stir in half-and-half and bring to a simmer.
- Add mozzarella and parmesan; stir until combined.
- Transfer chicken back into the skillet and cook for 5 more minutes, or until sauce has thickened and chicken is completely cooked through.
- Remove from heat.
- Serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional info is an estimate and provided as courtesy. Values may vary according to the ingredients and tools used. Please use your preferred nutritional calculator for more detailed info.
This was awesome! My family loved it just as the recipe was written! Didn’t have to change a thing. Thanks for sharing
That’s great to hear! I’m very glad you and your family enjoyed it! Thank you for chiming in! 🙂
Honestly, you can omit the cheese in this recipe. Both lighter and tastes better without. It’s really good with just the heavy cream. I used 8 chicken thighs, 5 cloves of garlic, added 12 ozs of sliced sauted baby bellas along with the artichokes and only used a big handful of spinach. Extra salt and pepper. Yummy.
Diced up the chicken, doubled the sauce and served over pasta. Huge hit with the family and will become a regular in the rotation. Fantastic flavor!
You turned my favorite dip into a meal. Love it!
Winner winner chicken dinner!!! I’m having chicken tonight!
Sounds really good! Looks like a fabulous weeknight dinner, need to make this soon!
So easy and delicious! Definitely trying this soon
Hello new weeknight fav dish.
Wow, what a flavorful dinner! It looks fantastic.
This was perfection! An entire meal all in one pot that was absolutely delicious! Thanks for such an amazing recipe that my whole family loved.
My family loves when I make this!! So delicious and easy to make! 🙂
This was great and also a life saver! I CAN NOT RALLY. to go to the grocery store these days for some reason! Turns out I had all these ingredients in the house already … some frozen chicken thighs, a half a bag of frozen spinach, and can of artichoke hearts. Add the last glug of a bottle of rosé and some half-and-half and bingo, dinner! I floured the chicken pieces slightly before putting them in the skillet and also used Italian seasoning. Worked great!
Great dish! I followed the recipe as is (opted for white wine to deglaze and half & half for the cream) and it turned out delicious.
some of my favorite things all together!
You make the best chicken recipes! This looks incredible!
What an amazing dinner recipe! This should be on our dinner rotation!
My husband and son are going to go nuts for this!
This chicken looks so creamy!
Really delicious! My husband loved it! We did add garlic as well.
This is my favorite dip in meal form! I can’t tell you how excited I am to try this dish!
Now this is my kind of meal! Looks delicious!