Ingredients Meat & Poultry Chicken Chicken Breast Recipes Creamy Chicken and Mushrooms With Egg Noodles 4.8 (16) Add this one-pan recipe to your weeknight rotation. Prep Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins Total Time: 45 mins Servings: 4 Jump to recipe All the action for this creamy chicken and egg noodles with mushrooms happens in one large straight-sided skillet. We love an easy chicken dinner on a weeknight, especially when there’s a creamy sauce, silky egg noodles, and it takes just 45 minutes from start to table. Simply pound chicken breasts thin, then sauté them, add the mushrooms and shallots, and cook. Stir in Dijon mustard, chicken broth, egg noodles, and cream cheese—they quickly create a rich and delicious pan sauce that the noodles cook in. The result is a dinner everyone will adore, and ask you to make on the regular. Credit: Johnny Miller Key Ingredients for This Easy Recipe Chicken breasts: Boneless, skinless chicken breasts cook up quickly, making them perfect for this weeknight-friendly dish. To ensure they cook evenly, pound them one by one between sheets of parchment paper until they're a uniform thickness. Mushrooms: Affordable, easy-to-prep button mushrooms add delicious depth to this simple recipe, though you can use creminis or another variety, if you prefer. To prep them, wipe with a damp paper towel to remove any dirt, then trim the end of each stem; slice them thinly, about one-eighth to one-quarter inch thick. Shallots: We love the mild, savory flavor that shallots provide—plus, they take hardly any time at all to soften in the pan. In place of shallots, you can use a small yellow or white onion. Egg noodles: Quick cooking egg noodles become silky in no time, making them a perfect fit for this one-pan recipe. We don't recommend swapping in another noodle which may soak up more liquid than the egg noodles, throwing off the sauciness of the dish. Cream cheese: Tangy cream cheese melts into the sauce to lend a lovely richness without weighing the dish down. If you have a tub of mascarpone or creme fraiche laying around, you can swap in an equal amount of either instead. A straight-sided skillet helps to contain all of the ingredients better than a sloped one, making it easier to stir without splashing or spilling. If you don't have a large, straight-sided skillet, use a Dutch oven instead. Directions Sauté chicken: Season chicken with salt and pepper. Heat a large straight-sided skillet over medium-high; swirl in 2 tablespoons oil. Add chicken and cook until golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes a side; transfer to a plate. Add mushrooms and cook: Add mushrooms to skillet, season, and cook, stirring, until beginning to brown, about 7 minutes. Add shallots and cook: Add shallots and remaining 1 tablespoon oil; cook until translucent, 1 to 2 minutes. Add mustard, broth, and noodles, and cook: Stir in mustard, broth, and noodles; bring to a boil, then cover, reduce heat to medium, and simmer 3 minutes. Add cream cheese: Uncover; stir in cream cheese. Cook, stirring, until noodles are tender and sauce coats a spoon, about 3 minutes. Return chicken to pan and heat through: Return chicken to skillet and cook through, about 1 minute more. Serve, sprinkled with parsley. What to Serve With Creamy Chicken and Egg Noodles This one-pan dish already contains a starch, protein, and vegetable, so it doesn't take much to round out the meal. You can never go wrong with a green salad, be it this tender lettuce salad with a tangy vinaigrette or Boston lettuce with shaved Parmesan. Instead—or in addition to—a salad, consider adding a green vegetable like our green beans vinaigrette, some simple broiled asparagus, or these sweet peas with shallots and gem lettuce. 5 More One-Pan Dinner Recipes to Try One-Pan Pasta Sheet-Pan Chicken Fajitas One-Pan Creamy Tuna Pasta Brothy Orzo and Pork Meatballs Sheet-Pan Vegetable Hash With Eggs Updated by Esther Reynolds Esther Reynolds Esther Reynolds is an experienced recipe developer, recipe tester, food editor, and writer with over a decade of experience in the food and media industries.