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Sweet Garlic Chicken - best garlic chicken recipe ever, sweetened with brown sugar. Made in skillet and takes 20 minutes from prep to dinner table. This is chicken at its best!

Sweet Garlic Chicken - best garlic chicken recipe ever, sweetened with brown sugar. Made in skillet and takes 20 minutes from prep to dinner table. This is chicken at its best | rasamalaysia.com

Easy and quick garlic chicken recipe with brown sugar in a skillet.

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.

Easy one pot sauteed chicken thighs cooked with brown sugar and garlic butter in a skillet.

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!

Close up of perfectly cooked Golden Sweet Garlic Chicken, topped with parsley.

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!

Garlic Chicken with sweet garlic sauce, topped with chopped parsley.

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Sweet Garlic Chicken

Sweet Garlic Chicken - best garlic chicken recipe ever, sweetened with brown sugar. Made in skillet and takes 20 minutes from prep to dinner table. This is chicken at its best. 

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 382 kcal

Ingredients

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
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Instructions

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 Facts
Sweet Garlic Chicken
Amount Per Serving (4 g)
Calories 382 Calories from Fat 148
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 16.4g 25%
Saturated Fat 4g 20%
Cholesterol 151mg 50%
Sodium 439mg 18%
Total Carbohydrates 5.6g 2%
Dietary Fiber 0.1g 0%
Sugars 4.5g
Protein 50.4g 101%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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  2. 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

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  3. 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!

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  4. 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!

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