It’s spicy, sassy, and might just inspire you to break up with those viral “engagement” and “marry me” chicken recipes.

But before we get into our new favorite dish, some background. Let’s transport back to 1982. A fashion editor at Glamour shared her favorite roast chicken recipe with an assistant at the magazine, who proceeded to cook it for her boyfriend at the time. Within a month, the boyfriend had proposed. Their relationship’s success was about so much more than a single meal, true. But when that assistant shared the chicken dinner idea with three other staff members, they too added “fiancée” to their resumes soon after. Enter: The “Engagement Chicken” era.

Since then, culinary icons like Ina Garten and Rachael Ray have created variations on the theme, and Delish just about broke the internet when its skillet chicken breast riff “Marry Me Chicken” took over TikTok. Unlike the other roast chicken dinners, this one-pan chicken dinner is made in 40 minutes—and it includes a luscious sun-dried tomato cream sauce. 

Marry Me Chicken didn’t lead to any engagements (that we know of yet), however, after tasting a bite during the recipe video’s photo shoot, the videographer told the recipe developer, “I’d marry you for that chicken!”

And just like that, Skillet Sicilian Chicken was rebranded as “Marry Me Chicken.” Allrecipes’ twist on Marry Me Chicken is served over pasta and has earned rave reviews like “Very flavorful…my partner didn’t propose after eating, but he enjoyed it a lot,” “Made it for my parents’ 60th anniversary,” and “This recipe got A’s all across the board from my family.”

While we love all of those sweet stories and tried-and-true chicken recipes, our new culinary crush is “Divorce Chicken.” One bite was all we needed to break up with the others…at least for this week.

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