One Skillet Chicken Thighs With Roasted Grapes & Blue Cheese is an easy meal prep recipe that combines the best of both sweet and savory. Serve with fresh greens for added brightness. Gluten-Free.
We can never get enough of chicken meal preps, but this one might have you a little puzzled.
You might be wondering why you'd put red grapes in a savory dish, but wait until you taste what happens when you cook with this popular after-school snack and lunch box staple. It'll change your mind.
This meal prep recipe is a simple combination of chicken thighs, crisp red grapes, blue cheese and warm fall spices that is best served with greens or a big chunk of crusty bread. It can work as a hearty meal prep lunch, a fast weeknight dinner or even a meal to be served to family and friends at a weekend gathering.
It's important to use a skillet that you can put in the oven because this dish starts on the stovetop and transfers to the oven to cook. Start off by seasoning the chicken with salt and pepper, along with cinnamon and star anise. Cook the chicken in a hot skillet with a little olive oil until the skin is nice and seared and crispy. Add the grapes to the pan and transfer to the oven to bake completely. When it's ready, remove the pan from the oven and add the thyme and blue cheese.
Prep this ahead of time and store it in airtight containers. You might consider leaving off the blue cheese and adding that before serving, unless you're ok with the fact that the blue cheese will melt a bit when you reheat this dish. We're ok with that! Serve with lemon slices and over baby arugula, if desired. We'd also like rice (cauliflower rice or otherwise) or quinoa with this dish or roasted potatoes. Buttered noodles would go great, too.
You can freeze this entire dish (with the exception of the arugula) ahead of time and defrost in the fridge or the microwave, or cook from frozen in the oven at 350 F, covered, for 20 to 30 minutes.
If you are looking to lower the fat a bit on the recipe for this One Skillet Chicken Thighs With Roasted Grapes and Blue Cheese recipe, you can use skinless chicken thighs in place of skin on or even boneless, skinless chicken breast. Just be sure to adjust your cooking time accordingly.
As mentioned above, we like to pair it with fresh greens (we used arugula here) or crusty bread, but this would also be amazing served with quinoa, brown rice, or any other of your favorite grains; or grain substitutes like quinoa or cauliflower rice. For those who aren't fans of blue cheese, give feta or goat cheese a try! They will work just as well!
You could also make this dish with something like a Chinese 5-spice powder, and that would work well with the combination of flavors, too, if you didn't have star anise or wanted to use a spice blend you already have on hand. The flavors will be similar and complementary.
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