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Buttery Garlic Parmesan Chicken - amazing skillet chicken covered with garlic and Parmesan cheese. Made with the simplest ingredients but SO good!
The Best Garlic Parmesan Chicken
Today I am sharing with you an easy and super delicious recipe that is sure to please your stomach and make your family love you even more: buttery garlic parmesan chicken that hits all the right notes. Crispy chicken, buttery sauce, cheesy, rustic and homey!
A few months ago, I posted a creamy garlic chicken recipe and that recipe is quickly becoming one of the most popular chicken recipes with my readers. Many people have tried the recipe with great success and can’t stop raving about how good the dish is.
This recipe is easier, simpler, with everyday ingredients that you already have in the fridge: butter, garlic, chicken and Parmesan cheese.
The great thing about this dish is that the mouthwatering smell lingers in my house even after dinner was served, and this recipe will certainly become another favorite chicken recipe for my family.
You just have to try it yourself, I guarantee that it’s totally worthy!
Ingredients For Garlic Parmesan Chicken
- Chicken thighs
- Black pepper
- Melted butter
- Garlic
- Italian parsley
- Parmesan cheese
- White wine, beer, or champagne
Please refer to the recipe card at the bottom of this post for full details on each ingredient.
Cooking Tips
- There is no need for any herbs like thyme or rosemary because it’s already SO delicious.
- There is also no need for chicken broth.
- I did use white wine because I always have it in my home, but you can do without it or use beer or champagne, or just skip it and use water. So easy, so versatile, no-fuss, but SO delicious.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, chicken thigh is considered dark meat because they are different types of muscle.
If you see a lot of pink around the bone, you should cook for a couple more minutes. If you want to be accurate, you can use a meat thermometer to see if it has reached 160°.
This recipe has 486 calories per serving.
What To Serve With Garlic Parmesan Chicken
This meal is best served as the entree. For a wholesome meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
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Buttery Garlic Parmesan Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs. (750g) chicken thighs, skin-on and deboned
- salt
- ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 20 cloves garlic, peeled and gently smashed
- 1/4 cup white wine, beer, or champagne
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon Italian parsley
- 1/3 cup parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Season the chicken with salt and black pepper.
- Heat a skillet (preferably cast iron) over medium heat and add a little butter. Pan-fry the chicken skin side down until both surfaces are crispy and nicely browned. Remove the chicken from the skillet and set aside.
- Add the remaining melted butter and sauté the garlic until light brown. Return the chicken to the skillet, followed by the white wine and water. Lower the heat and let it simmer. Add salt to taste and a sprinkle of cayenne pepper.
- Reduce the sauce slightly, then add the chopped parsley and top the chicken with Parmesan cheese. Remove from heat and broil the chicken in the oven until the cheese melts. Serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Ummm is it just me or did Lesley totally leave her address? ?. I just got some chicken thighs yesterday. What a perfect recipe?.
Yeah she DID ! That was beyond crazy!
Hi Rasa, your recipe was so easy to make & was delicious. I just happened to make some garlic parm noodles & they went well together. I was soaking the crusty breast in the gravy & enjoying it. I didnt have fresh grated mozzarella but I used the dry in the jar & it was still delicious thank you!
Would a dutch oven pan work just as good if I don’t have a cast iron skillet?
Yeah, or skillet is fine.
Another quick question: Is the chicken supposed to be cooked all the way through before you take it out of the pan and add the garlic?
Yes, they should be cooked. If not, they will continue to cook towards to end of the cooking process.
I bought skin on bone in chicken thighs. How would you change the cooking time?
Just cook longer.
Do you think this would be just as good using chicken breasts?
Yes but chicken breast is dryer, but will be nice. :)
Soooo good!!! I used Morton seasons salt. Cooked egg noodles, drained, then put noodles back in pot, then poured the chicken sauce on noodles for added flavor.? garlic was so delicious!!
Hi Pam, yes, the garlic is the best part of this recipe.
I was interested in the tortilla crumbed chicken recipe. I clicked on “click here for recipe and walked away to do another job while it was printing. I came back and almost exploded with anger. I had more then 20 life size pictures of heaps of pictures; not a recipe in sift and printing all that used up all my ink from 4 cartridges. Not I’ve got no ink. And….. I could have bought that book if I wanted to cheaper than what happened. I’m soooooo angry.
Lesley Back
163 Kangaroo gully road
Bellbowrie, Qld 4070
I believe you should send me a FREE COPY of your Asian book.
Hi Lesley, so sorry for the experience but the recipe is here: https://rasamalaysia.com/creamy-garlic-chicken/print/ and this is the page you should be printing. It looks like you printed the post and not the page and I am sincerely sorry.
That’s why you do print preview and make sure you only print what you want. You should be more polite instead of demanding things from people who share amazing recipes. And maybe you should pay better attention to what you’re printing. No one’s fault but your own.
God bless and have a wonderful day!
Lesley Back,
It seems to me that you are unaware of how to print recipes on blogs…which is technically YOUR fault, not the bloggers. We live in a society today that is too busy point fingers at others, than taking ones own responsibility! FYI in the future, in order to avoid this…copy and paste into a word document. That way you only print what you select to do in the word doc.
Rasa,
Your recipe sounds wonderful and I can’t wait to make it. :)
Lesley,
This is called user error. Next time, check the print preview to make sure you’re printing what you want.
I, for one, am grateful for her sharing her recipes with us.
Thanks Elina. This is an amazing recipe, you should try it and I am sure your kids would love it. :)
Dumbass!!
Get a clue!!
Wow…just wow
How long is the chicken supposed to simmer (assuming it has no bones)?
20 cloves of garlic?! :-O
Yes trust me it’s good!
It’s ok. Garlic get sweet as it cooks. What would you serve with this??
You can serve with pasta or eaten with rice, it’s amazing. For pasta I recommend this Parmesan Garlic Noodles: https://rasamalaysia.com/parmesan-garlic-noodles/
I cooked it tonight with risotto, yum!
Good idea.