This One Pot Cheesy Chicken and Green Chile Skillet is creamy, spicy and suited to burrito bowls, salads, casseroles, or over a big bowl of rice!

At Avdaye, we add lots of tips in all of our recipes – because we are a home cook without any formal training, and we find we are more confident making dishes when we understand why it works, and what each ingredient means to the flavor of a recipe. Our goal is for even the most beginner home cook to feel empowered in the kitchen.

Chicken Green Chile Skillet

It's hard to come up with good, easy dinners that taste indulgent and creamy but aren't too loaded with calories. We love good, creamy, rich dishes- but let's face it, they aren't healthy. This lightened up skillet is under 300 calories per serving (make sure you portion correctly, there are only four servings in the dish) to make a solid addition to rice, a salad “burrito bowl” style, or even a taco/burrito!

This skillet is a solid easy meal that also makes great leftovers- it can be repurposed into a base for tortilla soup the next day! add stock and some more diced tomatoes for a deliciously comforting meal.

measure out your cheese if you're looking for the right calories- and find a good part-skim cheese (we use Oaxaca from Cacique- in your grocer's refrigerated deli or hispanic goods section) because it is part skim, but melts like a charm for solid, thick, stretchy cheese! It's good and suited to a decadent meal that won't break your calorie budget.