Easy to Find Ingredients
This recipe for lemon chicken skillet dinner is quick, simple, but oh so tasty and satisfying. None of the ingredients are unusual or hard to find. In fact, you might have them all on hand at any given time. This meal is actually one of those dinners where you can substitute different ingredients pretty easily as well. If you don’t like spinach, try stirring in some arugula or (dare I say it!) kale. If you don’t have orzo on hand, any other small pasta will do – just be ready to add a minute or two to the cooking time. If you’d like dinner a little sweeter, use an orange and orange juice instead of the lemon.
These receipes are outstanding.
Very simple recipe and simply delicious.
Easy and super delicious! I would have appreciated some indication of measurements for “season generously “ and I did add more salt and pepper later but it turned out so I must have done okay.
I am so happy to have discovered Meredith. Dinner time is fun again and so tasty!
The Lemon Chicken, Orzo and Spinach Skillet dinner is a five star recipe. I had the ingredients already (when does that happen!) and it was so easy to follow, The taste is nothing short of outstanding. Thank you!
Excellent recipe (lemon chicken, orzo and spinach)!! I don’t especially enjoy cooking, but every recipe of yours that I’ve tried has been easy to follow with yummy results. We ate well last night!
What can you substitute for heavy cream?
Hi Marjorie, The cream at the end just loosens the orzo and makes it really “creamy” (go figure!). You could simply stir in a little more stock instead if you are avoiding dairy or cream.
Lemon Chicken, Orzo and Spinach ONE SKILLET meal is AMAZING.. Another one of Meredith’s recipies that is in my top 10… This got a thumbs-up from my Nephew who is almost impossible to please with chicken (He’s gotta have his beef)… SO YUMMY!!
Excellent recipe!! I made this in my electric skillet due to not have a stove… it was phenomenal!
Delicious and simple. Spouse said it wasn’t too lemony, so that’s a hit. Used only two breasts because there’s just the two of us, but otherwise followed the recipe except I subbed more broth for the cream.
We used 2% milk. If it could be any better, I’d like to know how.
You can use milk instead of cream, just make sure you don’t bring it to a boil after you add the milk, just simmer over low heat for a few minutes. The sauce may be a little thinner but should still taste great.
Very tasty
This looks delicious and easy. Being dairy free how would it be with coconut milk or coconut cream? I’m making this for our company this week. Yummy!
You can use coconut milk but make sure you don’t bring it to a boil as it will curdle over high heat. Once you add the coconut milk, just simmer over low heat.
I have this book and the recipes are awesome!
When you say “one pot,” it’s really one pot. So simple, but quite elegant. Like all your recipes (I have 3 or 4 books), this recipe is excellent. Thank you so much! I always have chicken breasts, lemons, and cream in the house, and I’ve made this several times Now it’s kind of a template for me–I might use rice or diced potatoes instead of orzo, or add asparagus or arugula, sometimes a big amount of parsley, different herbs, etc. Couldn’t appreciate your work more.
Just made the lemon chicken orzo. It was exceptional! I liked the fact that there are no “special” ingredients. I did substitute broccoli for the spinach(I don’t like spinach). To make the substitution I just added the broccoli at the half way point when instructions say to stir the orzo. This recipe is definitely a keeper!
Absolutely easy, fast, and delicious. I used chicken thighs bone-in and just upped the amount of flour and thyme. The rest of the ingredients were the same. This recipe is a keeper.
Ooh, bone-in thighs sound good. I’d probably up the amount of herbs with thighs, I wonder if you could skip the flour altogether, since the skin would probably brown nicely without it?
If you use skin-on chicken thighs you can omit the flour and just season them with the thyme, salt and pepper before browning.
This is an amazing recipe!!!! Yummy!
This was amazing! It is a keeper!