Creamy Southwest Chicken over pasta, rice, or cornbread
Enjoy a quick Southwestern style dish with this simple 6-ingredient recipe.
Cooking Time
20 minutes
Preparation Time
15 minutes
Servings
4 4-oz portions
Equipment
- 10-inch nonstick pan with lid
- Tongs for turning the chicken
- 1 or 2 cup Measuring Cup
Ingredients
- 1 pound skinless boneless chicken breasts butterflied or pounded to about ½ inch thick. You should have 4 4-oz pieces to cook.
- 16 oz full fat sour cream
- 1 -2T Beggs Bold Blends Southwest Seasoning
- 1 cup chicken broth or stock (I use Better Than Bouillon)
- 2 T All-Purpose wheat flour
- Optional: add 4 oz can diced mild green chilis, 15 oz can (drained) hominy or corn, 15 oz can black beans (rinsed)
Directions
- Prep: Begin boiling water and making pasta or rice. OR prepare cornbread and put in oven.
- Prep: Butterfly thick chicken breasts. Pound if necessary to make the breasts mostly the same thickness.
- Using a nonstick skillet, add 1T olive oil
- Place chicken in pan and lightly brown (about 2 minutes per side)
- Stir seasoning directly into the tub of sour cream
- Mix stock with flour, taking care to break up all lumps
- Pour stock and then the sour cream into the skillet with the chicken and stir all around the chicken to combine the stock and sour cream
- Place lid on pan and simmer 8-10 minutes to complete cooking of the chicken and to thicken the sauce.
Serve over pasta (elbow, penne, or rotini)
Serve over plain or Spanish rice
Serve over open-face cornbread slices
Optional: top with crushed tortilla chips or pico de gallo
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