Blue Plate Special Chicken Dinner Bar
One recipe—endless ways to enjoy!
- Milk
- Wheat
Our chef-curated “perfect plates” are the answer to your dinner woes! Set out a sumptuous spread of tender chicken cutlets, sweet peas, roasted carrots, fluffy mashed potatoes, and two (two!!) sauces: savory-sweet cherry sauce and classic onion gravy for spooning over anything and everything. Serve it all family style and order broccoli and/or corn for even more choices!
Ingredients
12 ounce
Potatoes
12 ounce
Carrots
2 unit
Scallions
10 ounce
Chicken Cutlets
1 teaspoon
Garlic Powder
1 unit
Cherry Jam
2 unit
Chicken Stock Concentrate
4.5 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
4 ounce
Peas
1 tablespoon
Flour
(Contains: Wheat)
½ ounce
Vidalia Onion Paste
½ cup
Mexican Cheese Blend
(Contains: Milk)
Not included in your delivery
Salt
Pepper
3 teaspoon
Cooking Oil
5 tablespoon
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to top position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry produce. • Trim, peel, and cut carrots on a diagonal into 1⁄2-inch-thick pieces. • Toss carrots on a baking sheet with a large drizzle of oil, salt, and pepper. Roast on top rack until browned and tender, 20-25 minutes.
• While carrots roast, dice potatoes into 1⁄2-inch pieces. Trim and thinly slice scallions, separating whites from greens. • Place potatoes in a medium pot with enough salted water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, 10-12 minutes. Reserve 1⁄2 cup potato cooking liquid, then drain. • Return potatoes to pot and keep covered off heat until ready to mash in Step 6.
• Pat chicken* dry with paper towels; place between two large pieces of plastic wrap. Pound with a mallet or rolling pin until 1⁄2 inch thick. Season all over with garlic powder, salt, and pepper. • Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook until browned and cooked through, 3-5 minutes per side. Turn off heat; transfer to a cutting board and tent with foil to keep warm. Wipe out pan and let cool slightly. TIP: If you added any other items to your meal (apps, sides, and/or dessert), you can get started on them now!
• Meanwhile, in a small microwave-safe bowl, whisk together jam, half the stock concentrates, 1 TBSP water, and 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP water and 2 TBSP butter for 4 servings). Cover with plastic wrap and microwave until butter has melted, 1-2 minutes. Carefully remove plastic wrap and whisk in one packet of sour cream (two packets for 4). • In a medium microwave-safe bowl, combine peas with 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4), salt, and pepper. Cover with plastic wrap and microwave until peas are warmed through and butter has melted, 2-3 minutes. Carefully remove plastic wrap and stir to combine.
• Heat pan used for chicken over medium- high heat. Add 2 TBSP butter (4 TBSP for 4 servings) and scallion whites. Cook, stirring, until scallions are lightly browned 1-2 minutes. • Whisk in flour and cook, whisking, until lightly browned, 1 minute more. • Whisk in 3⁄4 cup water (11⁄4 cups water for 4), Vidalia onion paste, and remaining stock concentrate. Cook, whisking occasionally, until slightly thickened, 2-3 minutes.
• Add remaining sour cream and 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings) to pot with drained potatoes. • Mash until smooth and creamy, adding splashes of reserved potato cooking liquid as needed. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
• Slice chicken crosswise. • Serve chicken, mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, peas, cherry sauce, gravy, scallion greens, and Mexican cheese blend family style and let everyone build their own plate.
Chicken is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 165°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Feb 2026- Flavor: Many loved the savory onion gravy, while the cherry sauce received mixed reviews; some found it delightful, others unnecessary.
- Ease of prep: Several noted it was time-consuming with many components, suggesting to prepare sauces first to avoid a time crunch.
- Suggestions: Consider skipping the cherry sauce and focusing on the popular gravy; some recommend charring the peas for extra flavor.
- Leftovers: A few mentioned it reheated well, with one saying the leftovers tasted even better the next day.
- Portions: Some found the servings generous and filling, while others wished for more vegetables, especially peas and carrots.
Reviews from our home cooks
I love that this had 3 different sides, all of which I love - mashed potatoes, carrots and peas. The chicken was tender and juicy and had good flavor, as well. I also enjoyed that there was a variety of sauces for a multi-faceted flavor-profile - the cherry sauce and gravy. I will order this again!
The flavors were great. Loved both the gravy and sauce! I was missing two ingredients or did not see them in my box and my carrots were limp and soft! If it did not taste so good, it would be two stars. The instructions had too many things in prep at once. And the times were off. My carrots (had to use my own) were cold long before anything else was done, Potatoes took a very long time to cook. Again flavors were unique and tasty! This would be great for two people to cook together.
Very tasty and large portions, could easily add chicken and make the recipe a family dinner. I really do not like the new recipe cards, because they do not list the quantity of the ingredients.
I really liked this one. We did not do a dinner bar, I just dished up everything. The gravy was a nice extra and the cherry sauce tasted good with the chicken. It was simple and tasty.
Everything was tasty! But could do without the cherry sauce. What was that for? I dipped some chicken in it, but preferred the gravy. So cut the cherry sauce and add more gravy ingredients.
Definitely a weekend meal with the added dishes for two sauces. I preferred the onion gravy and my partner preferred the cherry sauce. I would suggest homemade biscuits or a strawberry shortcake to top it off.
The cherry drizzle for the chicken is not good, and really an unnecessary component of this meal. Otherwise, the meal is delicious, despite having to use a lot of bowls and utensils.
100 percent delicious, from the sauce to the gravy, everything great (This may have been the chicken meal where the recipe said to wrap chicken in plastic and beat the chicken to tenderize and thin , no way did I do that, remember that's why we're ordering Hello Fresh, is to not have to do that part. No way!)
The cherry sauce was amazing over the chicken, and you can't go wrong with the mashed potatoes with Vidalia onion gravy over the top.
Can't go wrong with chicken or potatoes! Loved how everyone could pick what they wanted on their plate.
