Smothered Chicken with Onion Gravy
plus Mashed Potatoes & Garlicky Green Beans
- Milk
- Wheat
Got yourself a new boo and you’re ready to make it “Kitchen Official?” This is one of those feels-like-home recipes that’s absolutely guaranteed to please. You’ll season a pair of chicken cutlets with garlic and rosemary, seared to perfection in a hot pan, then drape them in a rich, velvety onion gravy. On the side are buttery sour cream mashed potatoes with even more of that luscious, savory gravy, and garlicky roasted green beans. After this meal, the rest of the evening should be …well, gravy!
Ingredients
3 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
½ teaspoon
Dried Rosemary
12 ounce
Potatoes
½ unit
Onion
8 ounce
Green Beans
1 unit
Beef Stock Concentrate
12 ounce
Chicken Cutlets
1 tablespoon
Flour
(Contains: Wheat)
1 teaspoon
Garlic Powder
Not included in your delivery
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
2 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
3 tablespoon (tbsp)
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
Adjust rack to top position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry produce.
Dice potatoes into ½-inch pieces. Trim green beans if necessary. Halve, peel, and finely dice half the onion (whole onion for 4 servings).
Place potatoes in a large pot with enough salted water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, 15-20 minutes. Reserve 1 cup potato cooking liquid, then drain.
Return potatoes to pot. Add sour cream and 2 TBSP butter (4 TBSP for 4 servings); mash until smooth and creamy, adding splashes of reserved potato cooking liquid as needed. Taste and season with salt and pepper if desired. Cover and set aside until ready to serve.
While potatoes cook, toss green beans on a baking sheet with a drizzle of oil, half the garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Roast on top rack until browned and tender, 12-15 minutes.
Cover with foil to keep warm until ready to serve.
Pat chicken* dry with paper towels; place between two large pieces of plastic wrap. Pound with a mallet or rolling pin until chicken is about ½ inch thick. Season all over with half the rosemary (all for 4 servings), remaining 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, 5-7 minutes per side.
Turn off heat; transfer to a plate and cover with foil to keep warm. Wipe out pan and let cool slightly.
Melt 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings) in pan used for chicken over medium-low heat. Add diced onion; cook, stirring, until softened, 2-3 minutes.
Sprinkle onion with flour; stir until coated. Whisk in ½ cup water (1 cup for 4) and stock concentrate. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, until thickened, 2-3 minutes. TIP: If gravy seems too thick, stir in another splash of water.
Divide chicken, mashed potatoes, and green beans between plates. Spoon onion gravy over chicken and mashed potatoes. Serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Sep 2026- Flavor: The onion gravy is the star of this dish — rich, savory, and delicious over both the chicken and mashed potatoes 🍲. Some found the rosemary overpowering; use half the amount if you prefer a milder herb note.
- Ease of prep: The recipe has several steps running at once, so timing takes a little coordination — start the potatoes first and keep the green beans warm under foil while finishing the gravy.
- Suggestions: Cook the onions longer than the recipe suggests (closer to 8–10 minutes) so they soften fully and sweeten before adding flour; steaming or microwaving the green beans instead of roasting keeps them tender rather than tough.
- Leftovers: This reheats well, and at least one reviewer made a second batch of gravy to use at Thanksgiving — it's that good.
- Portions: A few reviewers felt the potato and green bean portions were on the small side; doubling the potatoes and adding a splash of reserved cooking liquid makes the mash extra creamy and generous.
Reviews from our home cooks
This meal was amazing, the Hello Fresh meals always make me feel like such a great cook. The onion gravy on the mashed potatoes and chicken was incredibly mouth watering.
The green beans are great roasted and the gravy was great. Loving learning to cook with Hello Fresh.
Excellent flavor! Perfect mix of protein, carbs, and veggies. The green beans especially were so fresh and I had enough leftovers for a second meal. 10/10 would make again.
Easy to make. Rosemary was really good on the chicken. Onion gravy was delicious.
I cooked the gravy and instead of spooning it over the chicken I returned the chicken to the gravy pan to allow it to cook a bit more. Delicious!
Way tasty, would do again. Try to increase the gravy, delish on both the chicken & potatoes.
The onion gravy was delicious and easy. I made another batch and used it for my Thanksgiving dinner, too.
The mess on the stove. FYI: To make things easier, and cause less mess, I decided to cut the potatoes into quarters (as if I were to mash them) and put them in the oven with the green beans. Exercising that option worked really well.
Prep time took 3x as long as the instructions claim. The green beans have too much garlic and would have been better if steamed or cooked plain in water. Loved the gravy on the mashed potatoes. Potatoes would be healthier and just as creamy if milk were substituted for the sour cream.
The gravy was phenomenal!! Really really enjoyed this meal. However, one piece of the chicken was really rubbery and hard to chew. It also would not pound out at all. It just broke apart. It was a bad piece of chicken.
