Healthy Skillet Chicken Recipes For Easy Family Dinner Anytime

12 quick kid-friendly dinner recipes for busy parents (or for those days when you are feeling lazy, tired, and hungry and yet still have to feed yourself and your crew). 😋

Honestly, we can never have too many easy family dinner ideas for kids, because they may love eating something one day, and then turn their back on that same recipe the next day. 

These quick easy skillet chicken meals for families have minimal prep time, use healthy ingredients, and are perfect dinner ideas for picky eaters that will only eat chicken (for every. single. meal.)

Easy Chicken Spinach Pasta

A deliciously healthy and simple chicken pasta everyone is going to love. Yummy seasoned chicken with spinach and pasta is a hearty healthy dinner ready for the table in a flash.

One-Skillet Chicken Brushetta

A Sweet Pea Chef

Perfect seasoned juicy chicken breasts in a pan covered in gooey melted cheese is a quick family dinner idea even picky eaters are going to love, so you may want to make extra!

Easy Pan Chicken Fajitas

Together As Family

Mouth-watering one-pan chicken fajitas make a quick meal that is ready in 30 minutes or less. 

This delicious easy kid-friendly dinner is full of tender chicken bites with savory seasonings and veggies. Add some fluffy warm tortillas to make these quick and easy skillet chicken fajitas a family favorite meal everyone is going to love.

Stir-Fried Chicken and Bok Choy

A Mindful Mom

If a light low-calorie healthy meal is what you are looking for, then this nutrient-packed chicken recipe is perfect.

This healthy one-pan recipe is full of flavor and easy to make. Add some steamed rice if you like, or skip the extra calories and eat it just as is. 

Either way, save this recipe for those busy weeknights when you need a healthy quick dinner to fill up your family.

Skinny Orange Chicken

Chew Out Loud

An easy peasy mouth-watering orange gazed chicken recipe makes a sweet-spicy dish for family weekend dinners or a yummy change-up for busy weeknight dinners.

Just add some rice to this delicious one-skillet skinny orange-glazed chicken dish, and you will have a happy family enjoying dinner in 30 minutes!

Lemon Chicken and Potatoes (One Pan)

Chelsea's Messy Apron

Once you learn how to make easy one-skillet lemon chicken and red potatoes it will become one of your favorite go-to family dinners. (I think, anyway😋)

An easy healthy family meal made with a handful of ingredients like chicken, carrots, and red potatoes even picky eaters will want to eat. Best of all, this simple one-skillet dinner takes less than 30 minutes to make. What is not to love?

One-Skillet Chicken Con Queso

The Cookie Rookie

If you have cheese lovers in your family, one-skillet Chicken con Queso is going to be a huge hit.

Cheesy rice, taco-seasoned chicken, and spices like cilantro and pico de gallo make this skillet cheesy chicken recipe a family meal that everyone is going to love. Just be sure to make enough for second helpings!

Healthy One-Skillet Chicken and Spinach 

Taste of Home

Make this easy quick chicken and spinach skillet recipe for dinner when you feel lazy and hungry at the same time😋.

It just might become your family's favorite fast home-cooked healthy meals. 

 

Perfect Juicy Stovetop Chicken Breast Recipe

The Kitchn

Somedays you just don't want to turn on the oven and sit around waiting for it to preheat. You may feel more like grabbing a skillet and making a quick easy dinner on the stove.

This one-skillet tender chicken breast recipe is perfect for those kinds of days. Believe it or not, you only need to turn the chicken breasts over one time.  

While this recipe will work well in a deep nonstick skillet, if you have a cast-iron skillet, that would probably be even better. Either way, the chicken comes out tender and juicy inside, and brown and golden on the outside.

One-Pan Chicken Fajita Pasta

The Gingered Whisk

All you need is about 30 minutes to make savory taco-seasoned chicken and pasta in the skillet.

The flavorful seasonings and tender bite-sized chicken makes this a kid-friendly meal even the pickiest eaters will eat!

One-Dish Italian Chicken 

The Blond Cook

This healthy low-carb chicken recipe is full of flavorful veggies in an incredible savory sauce. 

I mean, doesn't that picture make your mouth water just a little?  Add a salad, pasta, or rice  (yes, the carb count goes up, but are we really counting with this delicious meal in front of us??) to make this easy family dinner on busy weeknights or lazy weekends. 

Easy One-Skillet Chicken and Rice Dinner 

Buns in my Oven

Easy quick one skillet cheesy chicken and rice with broccoli dinner that is kid-friendly. And the grown-ups in the family are going to love it too. Tender pieces of chicken, savory rice, and veggies.

When all these delicious ingredients are magically simmered and cooked together in one pan, the flavor is so good, littles will probably gobble up every bite!

30 minutes tops, one pan, and a healthy filling family dinner ready for the table. Now that's what I am talking about😊.