Most of my favorite recipes are the ones that just organically happen. Not that I don’t love sitting and planning out recipes but there is something I love about meals that just naturally come together with no prepping and little thought. These meals just happen and as you sit there eating you think to yourself, ‘I sure hope I can recreate this recipe again because it is so good it needs to be shared’. Well this One Pan Fall Harvest Chicken Dinner happens to be one of these thrown together dinners that I have now recreated many times because let me tell you it is so good.
This meal came to be about 5pm on a Saturday night when we decided last minute to have a few people over for dinner. I was planning on whipping something up with a family pack of chicken thighs I had in the fridge for dinner but now I had to ensure there was going to be enough food for everyone. So I started looking around my kitchen, it being the middle of fall I had a lot of fall flavors hanging out. So I went for it, I decided lets just make a Fall Harvest dinner!
I started with some leftover squash, some cranberries, grabbed a sweet potato, a couple of carrots. It was a great beginning looking around more I grabbed an apple from our apple picking stash. I had a good pile of veggies (and fruits) going so I moved on to spices. I started by looking at my herb garden to see what was fresh, Rosemary, I love Rosemary and it goes perfectly with fall flavors. To match the Rosemary I knew Rubbed Sage would marry the whole pan together. I quick marinade the chicken while I chopped up the fruits and vegetables for the ‘fall harvest’. I mixed the fall harvest together with olive oil, rosemary, and sage. The chicken was then placed upon the fall harvest, it was missing something but i couldn’t quite decide and then Bam, bacon. I grabbed a few pieces cut them into small strips and sprinkled them on top, voila! Into the oven for 40 minutes and you have yourself a One Pan Fall Harvest Chicken Dinner.
*You can soften the acorn squash to make it easier to cut by placing it in the microwave for 2 minutes, just make sure to puncture the skin with a knife first to let out steam.
One Pan Fall Harvest Chicken Dinner
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Peace & Love
The Schmidty Wife
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Looks delicious and easy! I’ve done something similar but never with the addition of bacon! Yum!
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I tried this tonight and it was amazing! I have never tried cooking squash or using cranberries, but everything turned out perfect, and it was much easier than I thought. (I did not broil, I was too scared lol, but it still turned out amazing).
Fabulous recipe! Definitely will make again.