Broccoli & Chicken Foil Packs

My mom used to make foil pack chicken for dinner every once and a while.  Hers included a chicken breast, some spaghetti sauce, and some mozzarella cheese.  As kids, and even as adults, we loved it.  Everything just dumped out of the foil and on to our plates.

Let me tell you two great things about foil-pack cooking:

1. Easy cleanup.  No need to dirty ten pans when cooking in foil.  Most of the time (although tonight I needed to cook some [turkey] bacon and mix the stuffing, you only have one pan, on which you simply put the foil packs, to clean… and really, it just needs a wipe-down.
2. You can build an entire meal in one little foil pack.  Brilliant.  No need for five pans with the entrée, vegetable, and starch – you can get it all in one spot!

Tonight’s are no different – stuffing on the bottom, chicken, broccoli, cheese, bacon, ranch… what could be wrong!  NOTHING!  And the best part, little-to-no-cleanup.

Chicken & Broccoli Foil Packs

Broccoli & Chicken Foil Packs

What You Need:

• 1 package stuffing mix
• 1 1/4 c water
• 1 package raw chicken tenderloins
• 4 c broccoli florets
• 1 c shredded cheddar cheese
• 4 slices cooked bacon; crumbled (I used turkey bacon)
• 4 tbsp ranch dressing

How You Do It:

1. Combine stuffing mix and water in bowl.  Put ¼ mixture on 4 large sheets of foil.
2. Top stuffing with chicken tenderloins.
3. Top chicken with broccoli.
4. Top broccoli with cheese and bacon.
5. Drizzle each with 1 tbsp ranch dressing.
6. Bring up foil sides and fold to seal, leaving room for heat circulation inside and place on baking sheet.
7. Bake at 400* for 30 minutes. 
8. Let stand 5 minutes, then carefully open releasing steam.

Broccoli & Chicken Foil Packs recipe adapted from BigOven.com.