Creamy Garlic Chicken

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Creamy Garlic Chicken - crazy delicious skillet chicken with creamy garlic sauce. Perfect with pasta and dinner is ready in 20 mins.

Creamy Garlic Chicken in a skillet, ready to serve.
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Garlic Chicken

Garlic Chicken is one of the best and most delicious recipes with pantry ingredients. If you have a lot of garlic, frozen chicken, chicken broth, plain yogurt (or whipping cream), white wine, etc., you should be making this utterly amazing recipe for dinner!

Combine the ingredients together and you will have the most amazing and absolutely scrumptious creamy garlic chicken.

The recipe is inspired by this rustic chicken with garlic gravy recipe, but I used yogurt to make the creamy sauce.

If you don’t have plain yogurt at home, you can certainly use whipping cream.


Bone-In Or Boneless Chicken Thighs

Garlics and chicken thigh with creamy sauce in a cast-iron skillet.

For the chicken, I used skin-on and bone-in chicken thighs, but I deboned the thighs.

This will ensure that you get the best of the chicken thighs: moist, tender, crispy on the bottom but not dry, with skin and without bones.

Learn how to debone chicken thighs with my picture guide and video.

This is similar to how I made my chili lime chicken and chipotle lime chicken. That’s the way go to with chicken thighs, trust me on that – deboned and skin-on!


This Is a One Pan Chicken Recipe

Close up picture of creamy garlic chicken.

This is a super easy one skillet chicken recipe. I love using my cast-iron skillet but you can use any pans (stainless steel or non-stick).

I finished the creamy garlic chicken off with 1 minute of broiling in the oven to give the chicken skin little chars, which is an optional step.

This creamy garlic chicken is delightful with some pasta, and they are done in about 20 minutes and you have only one pan to clean. Bon appetit!


Frequently Asked Questions

How many calories per serving?

This recipe is only 420 calories per serving.

Creamy garlic chicken in a creamy sauce with garlic loves, cooked in a cast iron skillet.

What To Serve With Creamy Garlic Chicken

Chicken thighs in a creamy garlicky yogurt cream sauce.

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4.59 from 67 votes

Creamy Garlic Chicken

Creamy Garlic Chicken – easy skillet chicken with creamy garlic sauce made with yogurt, white wine and chicken broth. Best with pasta!
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4 people
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Ingredients  

  • 20 oz (570g) chicken thighs, skin-on and deboned
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 15-20 cloves garlic
  • 1/2 cup chicken broth
  • 1/3 cup white wine
  • 1/4 cup plain yogurt
  • 3 sprigs thyme, optional
  • salt to taste
  • ground black pepper
  • 1 pinch paprika
  • chopped parsley

Instructions 

  • Season the chicken with a little salt and pepper.
  • Heat up a skillet (cast-iron skillet preferred) on medium heat, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Pan-fry the chicken until both surfaces become crispy or nicely browned. Remove the chicken from the skillet and set aside.
  • Discard the chicken fat from the skillet. Add the remaining olive oil and saute the garlic until light brown. Add the chicken back into the skillet, follow by the chicken broth, white wine and yogurt. Lower the heat and let simmer.
  • Add the thymes (if using), salt, pepper and paprika. Reduce the sauce a little bit. Remove from heat, garnish with parsley and serve immediately.

Video

Notes

You may finish the dish by broiling it in oven for about 1 minute, to char and crisp up the chicken skin.

Nutrition

Serving: 4people, Calories: 420kcal, Carbohydrates: 6g, Protein: 25g, Fat: 31g, Saturated Fat: 8g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g, Monounsaturated Fat: 15g, Trans Fat: 0.1g, Cholesterol: 141mg, Sodium: 128mg, Potassium: 404mg, Fiber: 0.3g, Sugar: 1g, Vitamin A: 175IU, Vitamin C: 5mg, Calcium: 56mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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  1. Matt Malay says:

    I think Iโ€™ve posted a pic of my attempt. Served on a bed of tagliatelle with julienned Chinese cabbage, red pepper, mangetout, beans and soaking up some of the sauce. Super. Will have to make a few adjustments next time, more garlic, less broth, as portions were smaller. Delicious. TU.

    1. Bee Yinn Low says:

      Awesome thanks for trying my recipe!! :)

  2. janet says:

    I’m really tired of recipes for chicken thighs!!! My husband won’t eat them, and, in my area, they cost more than boneless skinless chicken breasts. While some chicken recipes are adaptable to any chicken parts, I’m seeing tons of them for thighs that need skin for the browning early in the process–not going to happen in my house unless I’m widowed soon.

    1. Bee Yinn Low says:

      You can use chicken breasts for this recipe.

      1. Linda says:

        Plesse post the boneless chicken breast version of this dish

        1. Bee Yinn Low says:

          Hi Linda, I do not have a boneless chicken breast version of this recipe. You can use breasts by following this recipe.

    2. Angie V says:

      5 stars
      I agree! I don’t really like chicken thighs all that much but I’m nervous about cooking chicken breasts without a proper recipe because I’m worried about them being too dry.

      1. Bee Yinn Low says:

        The cooking method is the same, just replace chicken thighs with chicken breasts.