Salt-and-Pepper Chicken With Cheesy Spinach Quinoa

Name: Salt-and-Pepper Chicken With Cheesy Spinach Quinoa
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 ½ cups unsalted chicken broth; 1 ¼ cups quinoa; 1 teaspoon kosher salt, divided; 3 cups baby spinach (about 3 oz.), coarsely chopped; 4 chicken breast cutlets (about 1 lb.); ¾ teaspoon black pepper, divided; 1 tablespoon canola oil; 3 ounces Gruyère cheese, shredded (about ¾ cup)

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Comfort food made healthy(ish) is the name of the game for this simple chicken recipe that's perfect for a weeknight dinner. You have a tangy crispy chicken cutlet—perfectly balanced thanks to a dredge in Dijon mustard before a classic breadcrumb coating—and a quinoa pilaf dressed up like mac ‘n’ cheese. Folded into the quinoa is a tangle of wilted spinach as well as a hefty serving of nutty Gruyère cheese (because, balance). If you want to make this meal entirely gluten free, swap the Japanese-style panko breadcrumbs for gluten-free ones.

By Emily Nabors Hall

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Recipe Summary

hands-on:

20 mins

total:

20 mins

Yield:

4 servings

Ingredients

1 ½ cups unsalted chicken broth
1 ¼ cups quinoa
1 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
3 cups baby spinach (about 3 oz.), coarsely chopped
4 chicken breast cutlets (about 1 lb.)
¾ teaspoon black pepper, divided
1 tablespoon canola oil
3 ounces Gruyère cheese, shredded (about ¾ cup)

Directions

Step 1
Stir together broth, quinoa, and ½ teaspoon salt in a medium saucepan; bring to a boil over medium-high. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer for 12 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in spinach and cover until wilted, about 3 minutes.

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Step 2
While quinoa cooks, season chicken with ½ teaspoon each salt and pepper. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high. Add chicken and cook, flipping once, until golden brown and cooked through, about 4 minutes per side.
Step 3
Stir cheese and remaining ¼ teaspoon pepper into hot cooked quinoa. Serve with chicken.

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Lisa Seaberg

04/14/2019

Made this with the mustard and breadcrumbs as in the description even though they are not mentioned anywhere in the ingredients or recipe itself. It was good even if not the intended end result.

wls205256bf07f4

04/10/2019

I agree with comments below - where is the mustard and panko dredging mentioned in the paragraph before the recipe?

wls379ef1dc477c

04/04/2019

We made a nice dinner, making this recipe from your magazine. The next day we read the online version. It has an introductory paragraph that mentions dredging the chicken in Dijon mustard and coating in breadcrumbs. Neither of those ingredients is in the print-version ingredient list or the preparation instructions but we didn't notice the omission because the introductory paragraph isn't in the print version either. Did the print version omit part of the recipe?

wlsbb7895591015

04/02/2019

"You have a tangy crispy chicken cutlet—perfectly balanced thanks to a dredge in Dijon mustard before a classic breadcrumb coating—" vs recipe?

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