Creamy Spinach and Mushrooms Chicken

Delicious and fast to cook chicken recipe, made with spinach and mushrooms. This recipe happens to be low carb and gluten free too.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Mediterranean

Keyword chicken, chicken dinner, chicken spinach mushrooms, creamy chicken, gluten free chicken recipe, Keto, Low Carb, skillet chicken, spinach chicken

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 30

Total Time 35

Servings people

Calories 797kcal

Author Sonila

Ingredients

4 chicken breasts
1 medium yellow onion
4 tbsps ghee you can use butter too
8 oz mushrooms
6 oz spinach
6 oz parmesan cheese shredded or grated
1 cup heavy cream
2 garlic cloves
Salt/pepper/paprika to taste

Instructions

If chicken breasts are too thick, slice them in the middle. Fry chicken breast in a deep skillet in ghee. Keep heat in medium so chicken doesn't get burned. Fry for about 3-4 minutes. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika.
Flip chicken to the other side. Sprinkle again with salt, pepper and paprika. Go slow on salt, you can always add more later. We'll use parmesan cheese for this recipe, which is very salty so you don't want to have made the chicken too salty already. Keep cooking for another 3-4 minutes. You want to make sure chicken is thoroughly cooked and not pink in the middle.
Once chicken is cooked, remove from skillet and place in a plate. Keep it covered for a little bit.
Use the remaining ghee in the same skillet. Add finely chopped onion, minced garlic and sliced mushrooms. Sautee all the veggies together until mushrooms are soft.
Add spinach and continue stirring occasionally until all the spinach welts. Its volume will go down by 3-4 fold.
Add heavy cream, mix well and once it starts simmering then add parmesan cheese.
Finally, return chicken back to the skillet and turn the heat on low. Let the whole thing simmer for few minutes on low while you set up the table and warm up the side dish of choice.

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Notes

Please note that size of chicken breasts varies a lot. Sometimes this recipe yields about 6-7 servings and I store the leftovers for next day.

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