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.
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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!
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 420 calories per serving.
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Creamy Garlic Chicken
Creamy Garlic Chicken - easy skillet chicken with creamy garlic sauce made with yogurt, white wine and chicken broth. Best with pasta!
Ingredients
- 20 oz. 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
Directions
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1Season the chicken with a little salt and pepper.
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2Heat 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.
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3
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.
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4
Add the thymes (if using), salt, pepper and paprika. Reduce the sauce a little bit. Remove from heat, garnish with parsley and serve immediately.
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
You may finish the dish by broiling it in oven for about 1 minute, to char and crisp up the chicken skin.
June
Would it still taste as good if I omit the wine?
Melanie
Simmer: For how long?
Rasa Malaysia
Simmer until the sauce thickens to your liking, a few minutes.
Yeh Ximin
Mario Mendoza
What wine did you use?
Rasa Malaysia
Any white wine is fine.
tanya
can you use greek yogurt instead?
Rasa Malaysia
Yes you can!
Angela
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.
sarah
Thank You sooooo much, I really Love your recipes. They are so easy to make
You are the best.
Rasa Malaysia
Thanks for your sweet comment.
Mary Bostow
Just made this for lunch and MAN!! DEE.LISH.SHUSH!!!! Chicken was so tender and juicy, sauce was perfect.
Zu Davis
Where’s the recipe?? ? Ingredients list???? Recipe steps….. It’s gone….
Rasa Malaysia
Did you scroll down? The recipe is there!
Momo
…mmmmm, nice, this look delicious.