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Garlic Chicken
Garlic Chicken is one of the easiest and most delicious chicken recipes. This garlic chicken recipe is sweetened with brown sugar, making it even better and mouthwatering. It calls for every day ingredients and so easy to make.
Sweet Garlic Chicken, just the name alone conjures up images of perfectly seared and cooked chicken with a sweet and savory sauce.
Imagine tender chicken thighs, with golden brown skin, and coated with a sweet garlic sauce. This is the ultimate chicken dinner that you want to eat every day!
This recipe calls for only four main ingredients: chicken thighs, garlic, chicken broth and brown sugar. It’s that simple.
The cooking method is a simple 3-step process: pan-sear the chicken, prepare the sweet garlic sauce, and simmer both the chicken and the sauce in the skillet. It takes about 20 minutes from prep to dinner table. Try it for dinner tonight, you will thank me!
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 382 calories per serving.
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Sweet Garlic Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs. bone-in skin-on chicken thighs
- salt
- ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Sauce:
- 3/4 cup chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 3 dashes cayenne pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste
Instructions
- Rinse the chicken thighs with water, pat dry with paper towels. Season with salt and ground black pepper on both sides of the chicken. Mix all the ingredients for the Sauce in a small bowl, stir well. Set aside.
- Heat up a skillet and pan-fry the chicken thighs until the skin turn golden brown and the bottom turn crispy. Discard the oil from the chicken. Set aside the chicken thighs.
- Add the olive oil to the skillet on medium heat. Saute the garlic until they soften or become light brown. Add the chicken thighs and Sauce. Cover the skillet with its lid, lower the heat to simmer, for about 3 minutes, or until the sauce reduces and turn brown in color.
- Turn the chicken over a couple of times to coat with the sauce. Top with the chopped parsley and serve immediately.
Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
Delicious!
A pet peeve of mine when a person writes a review on a recipe but tweaks it. Really?? Obviously I’m not one of those people. Just want to say this recipe is totally awesome as is. Yummy!!! ?
Thanks Patty! :)
can i skip the apple cider vinegar altogether? what can i substitute it with ?
Yes you can.
We made this last evening, it was just so easy and yummy. I made enough for two days but there was nothing left for the next day! ?! Thank you for this great recipe!
Hi Emily, so glad that you love this sweet garlic chicken. It’s very delicious!! Do try out more recipes on my site!
Delicious!
Thanks!
I made this a few nights ago and followed your directions completely. The only problem I had was it was asking too long for the sauce to reduce so I turned up the heat which did the trick. I gotta tell you we (Mrs. Jake and I) were both totally impressed. Nice sweet garlicky heat
My advice to those making this recipe? Follow it to a T. The ingredient proportions can not be improved. A new twist on chicken, and the Mrs. loved it. Thank you Bee!
Hi Jake, awww, you just made my day. You’re so sweet. I am so happy that you and the Mrs loved the sweet garlic chicken.
The recipe states to add the olive oil after chicken is cooked (Step 3) Do you need to put oil in pan to fry chicken (Step 2).
Also is the cayenne pepper powder or liquid because it calls for a dash. I am a novice. Looks delicious
Hi Rasa! You knew that a sweet garlic sauce for chicken would catch every ones attention. Another exciting way to cook chicken. A sweet garlic sauce. Sweet and garlic.Heat up that skillet!! I would so like to try this! The drawback for me is chicken thighs. I really don’t like the dark meat of ANY poultry. Can I adapt this to breasts? I know about the moistness factor of dark meat but that doesn’t make me like it. Any suggestions for adjusting the recipe? Thanks for taking time to read this.Best wishes! Barb
Hi Barbara, yes, you can use chicken breasts. Double the sauce!!!
Should that have said 30 minutes not 3 minutes?
No, it’s 3 minutes on simmer to reduce and thicken the sweet garlic sauce.
How long to cook the chicken? 10 min can’t be long enough
Cook until they are cooked through, my chicken thighs were small.