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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.
This was delicious!! Thank you so much for the recipe. How does a recipe that easy taste that good?
Hi Iris, thanks for trying my creamy garlic chicken recipe. Awww thanks for your sweet comment. It’s all about balance of flavors…a very simple dish can be delicious when the ratio of everything is spot on. You can try other recipes on site, they are all easy and delicious. :)
Hi this looks delicious! I have skinless chicken breasts in the fridge. Will they work?
Can I use boneless chicken breasts instead of thighs?
Yes you can.
Caw this sounds nice. Thanks for posting this up.
Simon
Hi, I have tried this recipe and it is very nice. But wondering how to cook the chicken crispy and as brown as yours?
I broiled it in the oven for 1 minutes after cooking. Try it but you have to watch carefully or you might burn the chicken. ;)
May I know if what kind of ‘white wine’ was used? It is Shaoxing cooking wine?
No, chardonnay white wine.
Thank you for this recipe. I used ingredients I have never used in cooking. And my husband, who is very picky, enjoyed this very much. Thank you again.
This is an amazing recipe, I really enjoy the taste and I am glad he liked it. :)
OMG thanks for the recipe it was SO good.
Thanks Tania, glad you like it.
Can I use beer instead of wine ?
I think you can. :)
Wondering if the beer worked well or better to just increase broth… I’m Muslim so must omitt or substitute. Was thinking to try non-alcoholic beer.
Sure, try and let me know. :)
This was so good! I couldn’t find boneless thighs with skin so I used without skin, got them nice and brown and recipe delicious with mashed potatoes, I’ll try with pasta next time!
You need to debone the chicken thighs, that’s the only way to have the skin on. :)