Taste of Tuesday: Deliciously Easy Parmesan Chicken!

 

Please join me in a happy dance because... I made a delicious dinner last night!!! Hubby and I both loved it!  If you knew me well you would understand why this is so exciting - cooking stresses me out (if I ever win the lottery a personal chef is first on my list) and my husband always complains that my food "needs more flavor". What can I say I like simple food. I love cheese pizza and my sandwiches have two ingredients, meat and mayo.  A hunk of cheese? Gone.  Scrambled eggs on toast? Delish.  Anyway I digress...

Check out this tastiness:



Chicken (everyone makes some version of this, I tweaked a recipe right from Hellman's website)

Ingredients:

1/8 cup Greek yogurt 

1/8 cup mayo

1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese (I used twice what the recipe called for but um it's cheese)

2 tbsp. panko crumbs

2 chicken breasts

- place chicken in greased pan

- mix yogurt, mayo and Parmesan and spread over top of chicken breast

- top each breast with 1 tbsp. panko crumbs

- bake at 400 for 20 minutes (or until chicken fully cooked, our breasts were small and cooked perfectly)

Green Beans - I found a recipe that called for brown butter, lemon and toasted almonds... We didn't have almonds and I obviously love cheese so here is what I came up with...

Ingredients 

4 tbsp. butter

1 tbsp. cheddar cheese
1 tbsp. cream cheese

1 tbsp. lemon juice

pepper to taste

- cook green beans in boiling salted water for 5 minutes, drain and set aside

- melt butter and cheese over medium heat (stir continuously with wooden spoon until all melted)

- remove from heat, add lemon juice and pepper to taste

- pour over green beans and toss to coat

Potatoes

- cube two potatoes and bring to a boil, boil 5 minutes

- drain, return potatoes to pot and sprinkle in (no actual measurements, this was a bit of a free for all):

• garlic salt
• seasoning salt
• oregano
• thyme

- bake at 400 for 30 minutes 

Everything was pretty simple but wow did everything taste so good! My favorite was the chicken, so juicy inside with a nice flavorful crust on top.  It will definitely be a regular from now on!

Today I am linking up with Ashley, Jessica and Mary for Taste of Tuesday!

Happy Tuesday All!