Baked Italian Chicken and Vegetables (2024)

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I love using artichokes - they work so well in dinner recipes. I use them for Italian raviolior to make artichoke chicken bake. My favorite recipes always involve lots of veggies. This simple weeknight meal is no exception.

Baked Italian Chicken

• This is a one-pot recipe. Just combine all the ingredients in one pan (casserole dish) and bake it in the oven!
• 30 minutes of total baking time. Quick and easy!
• This recipe will keep you full and satisfied. It has protein (chicken), fiber (veggies), and fat (cheese).
• The chicken is smothered with fresh tomatoes, artichokes, and fresh zucchini! That makes the chicken meat juicy and tender!
• The Italian Chicken Bake is healthy, gluten-free, and low-carb! The vegetables make this dish colorful and packed with nutrients.
• The clean-up is a breeze! This weeknight dinner requires only one pot.

Tips and Tricks

• Use skinless boneless chicken breasts or skinless boneless chicken thighs.
• Use cooked bacon or prosciutto. Or, you can skip it altogether. Bacon is optional in this recipe.
• Use shredded Mozzarella cheese or shredded Parmesan cheese.

This Italian chicken is highly adaptable. Use any vegetables you have in the fridge. Use green beans, cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, asparagus, shredded carrots, finely chopped broccoli. Or, stick with the veggies that I use: cherry tomatoes, zucchini, artichokes.

What to serve with the baked Italian chicken?

• Serve a healthy tomato cucumber avocado salad or comforting cheese tortellini.
• Do you want something completely over the top? Then, serve this dish with one of my favorites: sun-dried tomato pasta.
• Prefer to serve grains? Serve this weeknight meal with cilantro lime and black bean rice or sun-dried tomato and basil rice.
• If you don't want to serve rice with the Italian chicken, try this delicious spinach quinoa side dish.

How to make Italian chicken

1. Preheat oven to 375 F.
2. Add chicken breasts to the white casserole pan. Season with dried basil and salt.

3. Top with sliced zucchini.

4. Top with sliced cherry tomatoes and sliced artichokes.

5. Top with chopped bacon.

6. Top with shredded mozzarella cheese.

7. Bake for about 20-30 minutes. Remove from heat.

8. Let the chicken rest for at least 10-15 minutes to allow the meat to cook through completely.

If you enjoy this one pan Italian chicken recipe, then trybacon cream cheese chicken or easy pesto chicken bake.