Dinner in a hurry

• Two boneless skinless chicken breasts
• Garlic powder
• Salt and pepper
• One bag precut broccoli (12 oz)
• One bag frozen corn (16 oz)
• One onion cut in half then cut into large pieces
• 1/3 cup fresh grated parmesan
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 pound pasta any shape you like
• 1 tbsp olive oil

1. Bring large pot of salted water to boil (add about 1tbsp of salt to water)
2. While water comes to boil, dump bag of broccoli into water as you’re heating up the water. Cover. The point of this meal is to get something healthy and kid friendly to the table in half an hour or less. We’re breaking rules here.
3. Cut chicken into bite sized pieces. Season generously with salt and garlic powder (I sprinkle and don’t measure. This is probably 1tbsp over all the chicken).
4. Hear oil on medium high in large skillet. I use cast iron. Cook onion until soft. Remove from pan and add chicken to hot pan and cook about 5 minutes until done. Remove chicken to plate with onions.
5. At this point broccoli should be just starting to cook. Using tongs. To remove broccoli and put in the hot pan. The water on the broccoli may cause spatter.
6. If water is boiling, add pasta. If not cover, wait for boiling and cook pasta as directed.
7. Add frozen corn to broccoli. Stir up until corn is hot and broccoli is cooked to your liking. Add back in chicken and onions. mix well. Turn off heat.
8. After pasta is done and drained, return hot posts to hot pot. As butter. Stir to melt. Then add chicken and vegetables to pot. Toss with the Parmesan. Add pepper to taste or not.
9. Serve with extra Parmesan to taste.

I didn’t take pictures of this tonight because I was in a hurry. I volunteered today and didn’t get home until six. My husband is intermittent fasting and needs to eat by 7, so I needed to throw together something fast and relatively healthy. He was picking our oldest up from her work at 6, and she had been at work all day, so I knew she was coming home hungry, too.

You can cook more chicken or omit chicken entirely to your taste. There is something about corn and pasta and butter that I love, so this comes from that particular combo.

As for pasta shapes, I prefer long pastas with this, but tonight I only had egg noodles, so we used those.