Description
These creamy chicken and peas are are in only 18 minutes! This is an easy and healthy kid-friendly weeknight dinner. Serve over rice or pasta!
Ingredients
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breast, cut into 3/4-inch cubes
- 1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 2 cups frozen sweet peas
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- 1/4 cup chopped chives
- Freshly ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken in a single layer, sprinkle with salt and cook, stirring once or twice until browned, 4 to 7 minutes.
- Sprinkle flour over the chicken and stir to coat. Add broth, increase heat to high, and bring to a simmer while stirring.
- Stir in peas and return to a simmer, stirring often. Cook until the peas are heated through, the chicken is cooked through, and the sauce is thickened, about 2 to 3 minutes after returning to a simmer.
- Remove from the heat and stir in sour cream and chives. Serve hot with fresh pepper on top.
Notes
Cooking Tip: The flour is the sauce thickener here. Avoiding lumps is really easy. All you need to know is that to avoid lumps of flour in the sauce, make sure you stir when you add the broth. The starches in the flour gelatinize at about the temperature of boiling, so if they are stirred in and dissolved before it boils you’ll be in the clear!
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 13 minutes
- Category: Main Course
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 266
- Sugar: 3 g
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Carbohydrates: 14 g
- Fiber: 3 g
- Protein: 35 g