French Onion Chicken

 Easy French Onion Chicken is our new favorite fast and fresh  dinner!  Simple seared chicken breasts with an easy to make deep flavored onion gravy.  This one is great for weeknight or company night!

This is the stuff that easy chicken dinner recipes are made of!  Once your onions have carmalized and developed a deep flavor the rest comes together in minutes!

Ingredients –

• boneless chicken breasts – if using larger chicken breasts cut them into horizontally into cutlets.
• yellow onions
• beef broth
• cheese – provolone, gruyere or swiss (we used provolone)
• thyme – fresh or dried

HOW TO MAKE FRENCH ONION CHICKEN:

Heat a small amount of olive oil in a large skillet.  Liberally salt and pepper the chicken and sear on both sides.  NOTE: the chicken does not have to be cooked through at this point as it will continue to cook in the sauce

While the chicken is cooking, slice the onions.  Peel and slice in half, then cut thin slices of each half.  Set aside.

Once the chicken has a nice sear on it remove to a plate and keep warm.  

Reduce heat to medium and melt additional butter in pan.  Toss in the onions so they cover the enitre bottom of the skillet.   Let them soften without stirring for about 5 minutes.  Stir every 5 minutes or so until they have become a beautiful brown color.

Add a bit of flour to the carmalized onions and continue to stir until no flour is visible.

Add t he  beef stock and cone to stir and simmer until slightly thick.

Nestle the chicken back into the onion gravy.

 Those two words together, ‘nestle’ and ‘gravy’ make me soooo happy!

Top with cheese.  I used provolone but gruyere is more traditional.  You can also sub swiss if thats what you have.  I guarantee ya there will be no on complaining on your cheese choice!

We like to serve this with with our Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes! 

This recipe does wonders with pork chops as well, or even ground beef or ground turkey patties, like our super easy Salisbury Steak!

Check out this video to make your cooking of this French Onion Chicken easier! 

A few more Easy Chicken Recipes! –

• Baked Chicken Cordon Bleu
• Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
• Yogurt Marinated Chicken
• Baked Chicken Parmesan

LET’S EAT!

Kathi & Rachel

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French Onion Chicken

This simple one pan dish packs a ton of flavor!    Reminiscent of french onion soup and made in about 30 minutes!

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Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 49 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 5 minutes minutes

Servings: 4

Author: Kathi & Rachel

Ingredients

• 4 boneless chicken breasts - if breasts are on the thick side, cut into cutlets.
• 1 tablespoons olive oil
• salt and pepper
• 2 large yellow onions cut in half then thinly sliced
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 1/2 tablespoons all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon thyme, dried or fresh
• 1 1/2 cups beef stock
• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 4 slices provolone - gruyere or swiss

Instructions

• Heat a large skillet on medium high heat. Add 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil.
• Liberally salt and pepper both sides of the chicken.
• Place the chicken into the hot pan to sear.  Don't touch for a few minutes, let the sear develop.   When chicken releases easily it is ready to flip.
• Remove chicken from hot pan to a plate and keep warm.
• Reduce to medium heat. Add butter and olive oil to pan.  Add onions. Sprinkle with a big pinch of salt.  Sauté  until onions are soft and deep caramel color.  About 10-15 minutes.  Add thyme and stir.
• Sprinkle flour on top of onions and cook for one minute until no flour is visible.  Add beef stock and Worcestershire. Simmer until thickened and bubbly, about 3-4 minutes.
• Nestle seared chicken into the onion mixture and spoon gravy over top.  Cover and cook an additional 10 minutes or until internal temp of chicken reaches 165 degrees.  Top with cheese, cover and allow cheese to melt.
• Serve with mashed potatoes, and fresh steamed veggies for a perfect meal!

Nutrition

Calories: 396kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 33g | Fat: 27g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 99mg | Sodium: 842mg | Potassium: 587mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 430IU | Vitamin C: 5.9mg | Calcium: 252mg | Iron: 1.5mg