Baked Tarragon Chicken in Creamy Dijon Sauce
Dinner last night was later than expected since I didn’t get home from a great workout until 8:30 pm…exhausted and absolutely famished. I had set out chicken for tonight with no real plan of what to do with it. So what’s a very hungry girl to do?
Make something quick and easy…but I still wanted it to taste like a gourmet meal I had spent hours laboring in the kitchen to create!
Here’s what I came up with:
Baked Tarragon Chicken in Creamy Dijon Sauce
What I love about chicken is how versatile it is (take it from someone whose mom’s favorite cookbook was “365 Ways to Cook Chicken” when I was growing up so I’ve learned a thing or two, trust me—love you Mom!) 
Ingredients: Serves 6
6 4oz Skinless, boneless chicken breasts
1 tsp. olive oil
6 tsp. dijon mustard
1 tbsp. plain nonfat Greek or regular yogurt
Tarragon
Salt+Pepper
Directions
Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Step 2: Whip up the marinade using:
-1 tsp. olive oil
-3 tsp. dijon mustard
-3 tsp. tarragon
-salt + pepper to taste
Step 3: Wash chicken breasts, place on baking pan lined with foil, and brush both sides with marinade. Place in oven for 15-20 minutes.
Step 4: While chicken bakes, create the Creamy Dijon Sauce using remaining ingredients:
-3 tsp. dijon mustard
-1 tsp. Greek yogurt
-3 tsp. tarragon
Step 5: When the chicken is done cooking, remove from oven and serve with drizzle of Creamy Dijon Sauce
Today is my first day of classes to become a Registered Dietitian! Here’s what my schedule looks like:
9-9:50: Food Composition + Prep
10-12: Medical Nutrition Therapy
2-3:15: Counseling + Teaching
I’ll be back later with a recap and brand new recipe ! Happy Monday!
Question for you:
What was your favorite lunch box food growing up?
I loooved Dunkaroos (is that what they’re called?)–the little kangaroo animal cracker cookies that you dunk into the cinnamon icing. And peanut butter crackers. 
Looks delicious & simple. I like it a lot.
My favorite lunch box foods were apple sauce and Oreos, which I still pack in my lunch now. I also loved Capri Suns.
Good luck in class!
i need to go find this book ASAP, I love cooking with chicken. Most of my meals revolve around chicken. Your chicken looks really good today, that’s a very easy dish to make too.
girlfriend you had my at “creamy dijon sauce”… this belongs in a restaurant!
Your chicken looks magnificant! I also can’t wait to hear about your first day back to school
Favorite lunch box item… that is a hard one. I did love the cheese crackers with the peanut butter filling. Those had my heart for quite a few years as a child.
Oh wow, I totally forgot about dunkaroos! Those were tasty! Also, do you remember those koala bears that were filled with chocolate? I think they were called Koala Yummies or something . . .
Hey girly! That cookbook sounds awesome! I could use that for Josh! I will need to look for it at the bookstore!! Dunkaroos were awesome! I loved jello pudding cups
Yummy chicken dish
Ah, I loved Dunkaroos too! And Fruit by the Foot. I still eat peanut butter crackers every now and then, haha.
Have a great first day of school!!!
fruit by the foot! i almost forgot about those-classic!
That chicken looks awesome! My favorite lunchbox food item would have to be fruit-roll ups or those crackers and salty orange cheese that came in a plastic box with a red plastic stick. I haven’t had the cheese and crackers in too many years to count but I did recently try Teather dried fruit snacks and Trader Joe’s Fruit Wraps and they were quite similar to the fruit-roll up. Good luck at school!
Dude, I saw Dunkaroos at Costco the other day!!! I thought they went extinct but I guess those nostalgic treats are still around! It’s hard to top those…takes me back to elementary school haha.
Girl, you impress me. I can’t believe this is something you just threw together! I would kill for a creative-chef mind like that
Looks delicious!
I too loved Dunkaroos! I can’t believe Sean saw them at Cosco! I thought they were long gone. I also loved double-stuff oreos… I would try to take them apart so all the frosting was on one side and then make them into quadruple-stuffed Oreos. Of course, this was all before I knew or cared about nutrition…
baloney sammich with mustard and CHEEZ ITS!
Haha! I remember Dunkaroos! I was just talking about those with a fellow food blogger the other day. I packed a fat free bologna sandwich on white bread with pickles for the majority of my elementary school career…
PB & J sandwich!or anything that contains PB!!