Skillet Chicken and Peppers Dinner Recipe with Star Butter Flavored Olive Oil

This Skillet Chicken and Peppers is an easy Italian-style dinner idea made special with Star Butter Flavored Olive Oil. Serve it over your favorite pasta or rice for a dinner your entire family will love! #CollectiveBias #shop

Skillet Chicken and Peppers Dinner Recipe with Star Butter Flavored Olive Oil

Here’s a little known fact about me …. I love gangster/mob movies and tv shows. I can’t help it and I’m not even sure why I like them! One thing I notice in almost every one of those movies is, how close the family is and how much time they spend enjoying great food. Truthfully, I was always kind of envious of the people in those movies – I wanted those things – not so much the gangster life, but the close family and great Italian food. 🙂

Dinner ideas

My oldest son, Elijah, and I have been watching several of these gangster movies lately. Just the other day, we watched “Goodfellas” and I kept thinking to myself that I should make an Italian dish soon. One of these days, I’m going to make Henry Hill’s meatballs! I wish I had an Italian grandma to share all of her cooking secrets with me

As I kept thinking about what I could make, I spotted that Star Butter Flavored Olive Oil at my local Walmart (currently it’s the only store that carries it!) – can you see it up there on the top shelf?! I had never seen it before, but thought it would be delicious in an Italian-style dish. I bought some and it’s been waiting for some kind of inspiration.

This past weekend, my family and I were out and about – enjoying Phoenix and our incredible weather! It was in the 90’s, y’all!! As my memory would have it (or should I say, lack thereof), I forgot to set anything out for dinner before we left, so I asked Brian to stop by Fry’s before we headed home so I could pick up a few things for dinner. I love that Fry’s is convenient and the staff is always so helpful! 

I decided I want to make something easy and fuss-free, but still full of flavor. So, I grabbed a few peppers in the produce department and headed back to the meat department. I wasn’t really sure what I want to make, so I asked one of the meat department workers if they had any “really good deals” on meat right now. He told me that they actually had a whole case of chicken at a great price – so I picked up some boneless skinless chicken breasts and thighs. 

Ingredients for Skillet Chicken and Peppers

I immediately started forming an idea in my mind for a skillet-type dish with the peppers and chicken – so I went to grab a can of diced tomatoes. Every Italian-style dish needs pasta, so I picked up some of that. I had to get some cheese too – cheese makes almost everything delicious! 🙂

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Servings: 6 servings

Skillet Chicken and Peppers

By Jamie Sherman

This Skillet Chicken and Peppers is an easy Italian-style dinner idea made special with Star Butter Flavored Olive Oil. Serve it over your favorite pasta or rice for a dinner your entire family will love!

Prep: 20 minutes mins

Cook: 55 minutes mins

Total: 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

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Ingredients 

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• ▢ 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• ▢ Salt and pepper, to taste
• ▢ 3 – 4 pounds chicken pieces
• ▢ 2 – 3 tablespoons Star Butter Flavored Olive Oil
• ▢ 1 onion, chopped
• ▢ 4 cloves garlic, minced
• ▢ 2 green peppers, seeded and cut into strips
• ▢ 2 red peppers, seeded and cut into strips
• ▢ 1 can petite-diced tomatoes, undrained, 14.5 oz.
• ▢ ½ teaspoon Italian seasoning
• ▢ ½ cup red wine or chicken broth
• ▢ Cooked pasta or rice, for serving
• ▢ Parmesan cheese, if desired

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Instructions 

• Combine the flour, salt and pepper in large zip-top bag. Add the chicken pieces to the flour mixture and shake until the chicken is coated. Heat the oil in a large skillet. Brown the chicken on both sides. Remove the chicken to a plate.
• In the same skillet, saute the onion, garlic, green peppers and red peppers until the veggies are slightly browned. Add the tomatoes, Italian seasoning and red wine; stir. Add the chicken back into the pan. Cover and simmer over medium-low heat for about 30-45 minutes or until the chicken is tender and the juices run clear. Serve with cooked pasta or rice. Top with Parmesan cheese, if desired.

Notes

• You can add in other bell pepper colors to really make the dish pop!

Nutrition

Calories: 555kcal, Carbohydrates: 36g, Protein: 34g, Fat: 29g, Saturated Fat: 7g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g, Monounsaturated Fat: 13g, Trans Fat: 0.1g, Cholesterol: 116mg, Sodium: 204mg, Potassium: 741mg, Fiber: 4g, Sugar: 7g, Vitamin A: 1756IU, Vitamin C: 93mg, Calcium: 64mg, Iron: 4mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Originally published on April 15, 2014. Updated on April 26, 2021.