This recipe for chicken and bacon with spinach has only three ingredients. And chances are, they’re in your fridge right now.
What makes this dish great: It takes a mere 20 minutes to pull together. You’ll taste an explosion of good, #becausebacon. Crispy bits of chicken can certainly hold their own. And spinach – well, spinach gives a toothsome bite of green with some plant power.
Following the autoimmune protocol or Whole30? Make sure your bacon is both nitrate and sugar free – preferably with just two ingredients: pork and salt.
Chicken and Bacon with Spinach
- 4.2 stars
- 5m
- 15m
- 20m
Ingredients
- 9 oz baby spinach
- 4 oz bacon
- 1 lb cooked chicken
Instructions
- Bring a saucepan half filled with filtered water to a boil. Blanch baby spinach in boiling water for just a few seconds.
- Drain and plunge spinach in a bowl of ice water. Drain again. Using clean hands, squeeze all excess water out of the spinach.
- When most of the liquid is removed, break apart the spinach and set aside.
- Pull bacon apart into strips. In a skillet over medium high heat, fry the bacon until crispy.
- While the bacon is cooking, shred chicken.
- When bacon is crispy, remove to a paper towel-lined plate to drain.
- Pour most of the bacon grease (leave about 3 tablespoons) through a fine sieve into a clean mason jar.
- Allow to cool on the countertop to room temperature, then cover and store in the fridge to use for frying in a future meal.
- Add the chicken to the remaining bacon grease and sauté until warm. Add the cooked and drained spinach and continue cooking until uniformly hot.
- Serve immediately with bacon crumbled on top.
Nutrition
- 302
- 34g
- 2g
- 1g
- 16g
- 6g
- 103mg
- 1g
- 344mg
Michael
Simple, easy and good. Not an “amazing” recipe… but simple, good, tasty, quick and easy. I would add, onions and garlic – maybe even mushrooms – to give it power and more mouth appeal.
Julia
My husband can even make it. My husband made this exactly as written. It was simple and decent. Everyone ate it with no complaints. Next time I’ll add onions, garlic, and cheddar cheese. Sun-dried tomatoes would be yummy too.
Paris
Added pizzazz. It was ok, so I took a nod from my favorite local pizzeria and added garlic to saute spinach instead, added artichoke hearts to chicken. For my kiddo, I served it over some penne noodles.
Christy
“You can make this anytime Mom”. It was a yum vote from picky kids and husband. That said, I added seasonings to our taste (garlic, salt, pepper, red peppers) and served it over sprouted brown rice. It’s good with frozen baby kale too.
Lara
Simple and delicious! I pan fried the chicken with salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder. We atr it with brown rice and arugala salad. Yummy!
Carrie
I thought I might say like the others that it needs something but honestly it is just basic and delicious. The only change was I sauteed the spinach in bacon grease. You can add but don’t need to.