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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.
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
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
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
This recipe is only 420 calories per serving.
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Creamy Garlic Chicken
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 salt and pepper.
- Heat a skillet (preferably cast iron) over medium heat and add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Pan-fry the chicken until both sides are crispy and nicely browned. Remove the chicken from the skillet and set aside.
- Discard the chicken fat from the skillet. Add the remaining olive oil and sauté the garlic until light brown. Return the chicken to the skillet, followed by the chicken broth, white wine, and yogurt. Lower the heat and let it simmer.
- Add the thyme (if using), salt, pepper, and paprika. Reduce the sauce slightly. Remove from heat, garnish with parsley, and serve immediately.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Tried this out last night… AMAZING! Unfortunately all my grocery store had was greek yogurt, so it was kind of hard to blend with the broth and wine. I cut the recipe and half since it was only for me. I’d eat it every week if I could! I had it with risotto and a salad. I’m so happy with this recipe!
Hi Avee, so happy that you love this creamy garlic chicken recipe, yes, it’s so good!!! :)
I used Greek yogurt and it blended perfect. This. Was absolutely delicious …and I have picky kids but they loved this
Can I use plain greek yogurt?
Yes.
Delicious!
Is there anything I can use in place of the white wine?
Skip it just use more chicken broth.
We tried this recipe and just used chicken stock. I didn’t have yogurt so I used sour cream and it was delicious! The sauce is so flavorful. Thanks!
Jennifer – yes, sour cream works too, and yes, it’s so flavorful. :)
would heavy cream work as a substitute? im weird in that i dont like using sour cream or yogurt in my sauces.
Sure you can.
Does this dish freeze well. I was thinking of doubling it.
Hi Lisa, yes, it freezes well, you can double for no problem.
Would this recipe work well in the crock pot?
Yes it would but it won’t taste as good. I will have to create a slow cooker garlic chicken.
Hi- how do you simmer it for?
Just lower the heat to simmer.
And how long to simmer for? :)
About 1 minute to 2 minutes until the sauce reduces a bit.
Can I know what wine do you use? Can I use Chinese cooking wine?
This recipe is very similar to a modification of a very old recipe called “Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic” (although I used more like 60). As I remember, the original recipe called for putting the garlic, unpeeled, inside a whole chicken then roasting it. The modified recipe I used was done in a pan with cut-up chicken, much like this one. By not peeling, the covering allowed the garlic to almost bake inside. When you eat it, you open the outside and the garlic has turned almost to a mashed potato-like texture. Much milder than you would expect and a wonderful flavor.
Hi Tony, yes I think this is my take on 40 cloves garlic but I really like the wine and yogurt sauce. :)
I made your version of the recipe and it was very easy and tasted fantastic! like most recipes I have made from this site……love this site!
P.S. I cooked the chicken thighs bone-in and it still cooked rather fast
That’s great!
I don’t even know how to debone a thigh! Any videos on your site?
Hi Algerine, thanks for trying my creamy garlic chicken recipe. Yeah, I love this recipe, too. Very yummy!