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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.
Would it still taste as good if I omit the wine?
Simmer: For how long?
Simmer until the sauce thickens to your liking, a few minutes.
What wine did you use?
Any white wine is fine.
can you use greek yogurt instead?
Yes you can!
OMGoodness! This was soo delicious. We were almost licking the plates. I made this for dinner on Sunday, and it’s been on my mind every since then. It’s going to be for dinner again today. I’ve looked through a lot of your recipes, and they all look good. I also like the fact that this is a one pot meal, and very easy to put together. Thank you so much for this recipe.
Thank You sooooo much, I really Love your recipes. They are so easy to make
You are the best.
Thanks for your sweet comment.
Just made this for lunch and MAN!! DEE.LISH.SHUSH!!!! Chicken was so tender and juicy, sauce was perfect.
Where’s the recipe?? ? Ingredients list???? Recipe steps….. It’s gone….
Did you scroll down? The recipe is there!
…mmmmm, nice, this look delicious.