Chicken or Pork Chops with Vegetables Skillet Meal

Looking for more vegetables on your dinner plate? How about this one-pan Chicken or Pork Chops and Vegetables Skillet Meal, it is easy, delicious, only takes one pan, and you get vegetables! Also delicious when made with pork chops...

Busy times require more focus on cooking up easy meals, yet keeping with my philosophy of whole foods with lots of vegetables. I have played around with a few dishes that we have enjoyed time and time again. Fortunately, the outcome for food that you enjoy regularly becomes a process and from that process, a new recipe is created. 

Chicken or Pork Chops and Vegetables Skillet Meal is exactly one of those! A lighter meal with a big emphasis on vegetables! I have made it with pork chops and with chicken thighs. And each time, dinner was wonderful. You can, of course, offer a side dish of potatoes, pasta or rice. But often for just the two of us, dinner is a simple meal and this skillet dinner is just the ticket.

Chicken or Pork Chops and Vegetables Skillet Meal is open to interpretation, so feel free to substitute your favorite seasoning. We have come to enjoy the simple flavors of garlic salt, fresh ground pepper, and smoked paprika for this meal. Just enough seasonings to taste delicious, but not so much as to take away from the vegetables. 

This skillet meal will serve 2 or 3 folks, double if you have company coming!

Ingredients needed for this meal:

• chicken 

or

• pork chops
• carrots
• spinach
• garlic salt
• paprika plain or smoked
• fresh ground pepper

You will also need the following:

• cast-iron skillet
• cutting board
• carrot peeler
• kitchen knife
• measuring spoons
• tongs
• serving platter

Now we are ready to begin!

Chicken or Pork Chops and Vegetables Skillet Meal
by the seat of my pants!
350-degree oven

4 chicken thighs
OR
2 large pork chops

2 t olive oil, butter, or bacon drippings
garlic salt
fresh ground pepper
smoked paprika or plain

4 large carrots - cut 1/2 inch thick on the diagonal

2 - 3 large handfuls of spinach leaves

In a medium-sized cast-iron skillet, brown the chicken or chops in the fat of choice. Season with garlic salt, fresh ground pepper, and smoked paprika. Turn, and season the second side. Let cook a moment or two to sear the second side.

Push the browned meat aside, add the prepared carrots and toss in the drippings that have accumulated in the pan. 

Arrange the meat to the outside edges of the pan and place the carrots in the center. Bake 35-45 minutes or until done in your oven.

Carefully remove the skillet from the oven, returning it to the stovetop. Turn the burner on to medium-high.

Remove the chicken or pork chops from the pan and place them on a serving platter.

Add the spinach to the pan along with the carrots and stir-fry the vegetables together just long enough to cook the spinach.

Place vegetables on the platter with the meat, and serve.

Storage options for Chicken or Pork Chops and Vegetables Skillet Meal. You may refrigerate the cooked chicken and vegetables for up to three days. You may also freeze the cooked chicken and vegetables, reheating may result in a loss of texture quality.

 

UPDATE:  For your convenience, a "copy and paste" version of Chicken or Pork Chops and Vegetables Skillet Meal has been included below. 

Featured recipe at: 

Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household featured at You're The Star  Blog Hop. 

#wholefoodingredients

#scratchmadefoodforyourfamily

Thanks for stopping by!

We offer new and delicious recipes as well as DIY ideas for your home, regularly. Feel free to drop us an email request for any question or recipe you may be looking for. In addition, like all our guests, we invite you to come for a visit again and again for new recipes, and my down-home take on frugal ways to keep your home in tip top shape. 

Hey you, don’t miss a post! Please consider following Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household. To follow by email, and/or by RSS feed, complete the application located on the right-hand side of the blog. Please Note, some posts may contain affiliate links, thank you for supporting Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household.

PS, friends, and family who love good food and household ideas might love us too! Tell them about us, and thanks for the referral!

You may also enjoy, Creative writing from the heart... stories of life, living, and family.

Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household proudly shares with these generous link parties featured here.  

Printable "copy and paste" version:

Chicken or Pork Chops and Vegetables Skillet Meal
by the seat of my pants!
350-degree oven

4 chicken thighs
OR
2 large pork chops

2 t olive oil, butter, or bacon drippings
garlic salt
fresh ground pepper
smoked paprika or plain

4 large carrots - cut 1/2 inch thick on the diagonal

2 - 3 large handfuls of spinach leaves

In a medium-sized cast-iron skillet, brown the chicken or chops in the fat of choice. Season with garlic salt, fresh ground pepper, and smoked paprika. Turn, and season the second side. Let cook a moment or two to sear the second side.

Push the browned meat aside, add the prepared carrots and toss in the drippings that have accumulated in the pan. 

Arrange the meat to the outside edges of the pan and place the carrots in the center. Bake 35-45 minutes or until done in your oven.

Carefully remove the skillet from the oven, returning it to the stovetop. Turn the burner on to medium-high.

Remove the chicken or pork chops from the pan and place them on a serving platter.

Add the spinach to the pan along with the carrots and stir-fry the vegetables together just long enough to cook the spinach.

Place vegetables on the platter with the meat, and serve.

Storage options for Chicken or Pork Chops and Vegetables Skillet Meal. You may refrigerate the cooked chicken and vegetables for up to three days. You may also freeze the cooked chicken and vegetables, reheating may result in a loss of texture quality. 

~~~~