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Home » Recipes » Chicken Dinners

Chicken with Peppers and Onions

By Laura Fuentes Updated Jun 3, 2025

5 from 35 votes

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Turn everyone's favorite protein into a complete meal with this simple chicken with peppers and onions recipe!

Spruce up your dinner plans with this simple chicken with peppers and onions. It’s a simple way to turn everyone’s favorite meat into a complete meal! Whether you serve this recipe over rice in a bowl or with tortillas, with minimal effort, you’ll get a protein-rich meal loaded with flavor in every bite.

overhead view of skillet filled with chicken strips and roasted peppers and onions

Quick Chicken with Peppers & Onions

Chicken is often our go-to ingredient for healthy dinner ideas because it fills bellies with lots of protein and it’s low in calories and fat. Paired with peppers and onions, the combination is a classic people pleaser!

You can make this recipe even faster by using a frozen fajita mix that includes pre-sliced peppers and onions, and to cook the chicken faster, you could also butterfly the chicken breasts.

Ingredients

Since you just need simple ingredients to compile this dish, you’re going to love it! Grab brightly colored peppers to add to really make the dish stand out!

  • chicken breasts: boneless skinless chicken breasts are what the recipe calls for, but you can also use thighs.
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper: for seasoning.
  • unsalted butter: if you use salted butter, omit adding any extra salt
  • olive oil: or your favorite for cooking.
  • yellow onion: thinly sliced or white.
  • bell peppers: have fun with the color combos
  • garlic powder: or minced garlic
  • Italian seasoning: great for an extra boost of flavor

You’ll find all the ingredient measurements in the recipe card below.

Laura standing in kitchen cutting red bell peppers into slices

How to Make Skillet Chicken Peppers & Onions

You’re about to see why this is in our regular meal rotation at our house! It’s such a simple mealtime dish!

  1. Prep the chicken
    Pat chicken dry; season with salt and black pepper.
  2. Heat the oil
    Heat a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Add butter and 1 tablespoon of oil to the pan. Once the butter is melted, add the chicken to the pan.
  3. Cook the chicken
    Cook the chicken breasts for 7 minutes, flip, and cook the other side for an additional 7 to 8 minutes; until the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165F, turn off the heat.
  4. Cook the peppers
    Meanwhile, in another pan, heat up the remaining oil, and add the onion and seasonings. Once it begins to soften and becomes translucent, after about 4 minutes, add the bell peppers to the pan and cook for an additional 4 minutes until they are soft.
  5. Combine
    Transfer the veggies into the chicken pan and mix to combine.

Can You Cook Raw Chicken and Peppers Together

While you can cook raw chicken and peppers in the same pan, it’s important that you continue cooking the peppers, which don’t take as long to cook, until the chicken is fully cooked, to an internal temperature of 165F.

For this reason, I start cooking the chicken and while that cooks, cook the peppers and onions on a separate pan. To reduce cleanup, you could cook the chicken first, remove it onto a pan, then cook the peppers in the same pan and add the chicken back in at the end.

skillet with chicken strips and roasted peppers and onions

What Herbs go Best with Chicken and Peppers

Both chicken and peppers are like a white canvas that can be seasoned with just about anything! Some of my favorites are Cajun seasoning, Creole seasoning, Taco Seasoning, Jamaican Jerk seasoning, or even some curry powder!

How to Serve Chicken & Peppers

This chicken and peppers are a terrific low-carb meal by itself, turn it into a burrito, inside a tortilla as tacos, or on top of a bed of lettuce. You can also pair it with:

  • Spanish Cauliflower Rice
  • Roasted Sweet Potatoes
  • Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice
  • Blueberry Spinach Salad
  • Everyday Side Salad

Chicken with Peppers

skillet of chicken tenders, sliced onions and sliced red, green and yellow peppers
Servings: 4
Prep Time: 10 minutes mins
Cook Time: 20 minutes mins
Total Time: 30 minutes mins
Turn everyone’s favorite protein into a complete meal with this simple chicken with peppers and onions recipe!
5 from 35 votes
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Ingredients

  • 1 ½ lbs chicken breasts
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper, for seasoning
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
  • 1 large yellow onion, sliced
  • 2 large bell peppers, any color or a combo, sliced
  • 1 ½ teaspoons garlic powder
  • 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning

Instructions

  • Pat chicken dry; season with salt and black pepper.
  • Heat a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add butter and 1 tablespoon of oil to the pan. Once the butter is melted, add the chicken to the pan.
  • Cook the chicken breasts for 7 minutes, flip, and cook the other side for an additional 7 to 8 minutes; until the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165F, turn off the heat.
  • Meanwhile, in another pan, heat up the remaining oil, add the onion and seasonings. Once it begins to soften and becomes translucent, after about 4 minutes, add the bell peppers to the pan and cook for an additional 4 minutes until they are soft.
  • Transfer the veggies and their juices into the chicken pan, mix to combine the peppers and chicken juices, and serve.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1 serving | Calories: 339kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 37g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 124mg | Sodium: 203mg | Potassium: 826mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 2111IU | Vitamin C: 80mg | Calcium: 42mg | Iron: 2mg

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  1. Kelley says

    June 10, 2025 at 1:38 pm

    5 stars
    This was an easy dinner and a new way of enjoying chicken and onions for us. Great recipe.

    Reply
  2. Teri Castle says

    December 31, 2024 at 4:35 pm

    5 stars
    Delicious and so easy. Thank you

    Reply
  3. Eddie says

    August 15, 2023 at 2:06 pm

    5 stars
    This is pretty darn good! I broke the “Cardinal Rule” and used salted butter.

    Next time it will be even better.

    Thanks for the recipe!

    Reply
    • Laura Fuentes says

      August 28, 2023 at 11:46 am

      I won’t tell anyone about the butter 😉 -and thank you for sharing how much you enjoy this recipe!

      Reply

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