Chicken With White Beans and Baby Spinach

Name: Chicken With White Beans and Baby Spinach
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 3-4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 lb chicken breast, boneless, skinless; 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves; 1/8 teaspoon fresh ground pepper, more to taste; 1 1/2 tablespoons butter, no transfat spread like Promise; 1 medium onion, chopped fine; 3 garlic cloves, minced; 1 1/2 cups chicken broth, low-fat, low sodium; 1/4 cup dry white wine; 1 (16 ounce) can cannellini beans, rinsed and drained; 1 (10 ounce) bag Baby Spinach

Submitted by Debi H

"I found this recipe in Readers Digest in an ad for Promise butter. I tweaked it to fit my DH and my tastes and it came out quite good. It's a great low fat, healthy dish which is really more like soup and is great on a cold winter night. It's also real quick to make after coming home from working all day. Putting it here on Zaar so I can find it again."

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Ready In:: 25mins
Ingredients:: 10
Serves:: 3-4

ingredients

1 lb chicken breast, boneless, skinless
¹⁄₂ teaspoon dried thyme leaves
¹⁄₈ teaspoon fresh ground pepper, more to taste
1 ¹⁄₂ tablespoons butter, no transfat spread like Promise
1 medium onion, chopped fine
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 ¹⁄₂ cups chicken broth, low-fat, low sodium
¹⁄₄ cup dry white wine
1 (16 ounce) can cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
1 (10 ounce) bag Baby Spinach

directions

Cut chicken breasts into strips and season with thyme and black pepper.
Melt 1 tablespoons butter in skillet over medium high heat.
Add chicken to the butter and brown over medium high heat about 3 - 4 minutes.
Move chicken to side and add 1/2 tablespoons of butter. Add minced garlic and onion (note I use onion powder only because my DH can't eat real onions - I know how awful to not cook with real onions).
Saute 1 minute and then add broth and white wine. I used Pinot Grigio because that's what I had on hand.
Bring to a boil and reduce heat - simmer 5 minutes.
Stir in beans which have been rinsed and drained and the spinach leaves.
Simmer 5 more minutes until chicken cooked through.

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Debi H

United States

I grew up and still live in the suburbs of Chicago, IL. My husband and I are empty nesters I work full time in computer consulting and so don't have much time for cooking, but I do enjoy it and like scanning through the recipes here for new ones to try. I'm fairly new to this site, but have already tried a number of recipes - so far, so good! My husband is a chocoholic, so I especially look for recipes that contain chocolate

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