Creamy Garlic Chicken is made with seasoned, juicy, tender chicken breasts that get blanketed in a rich and creamy garlic sauce. It's a simple meal to toss together so you can have dinner on the table in only 30 minutes.
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This savory chicken dish is the ultimate easy comfort food. Creamy chicken recipes are one of the best things to make for dinner, you may also like Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Orzo.
Why This Recipe Works
Making a protein rich recipe like this juicy chicken breast and sauce is perfect for those busy weeknights when you want to feed your family fast. The creamy and rich sauce from this easy recipe is great for true garlic lovers. Serve with a side of this Longhorn Steakhouse Broccoli Recipe.
If you love this creamy garlic chicken you have to try Marry Me Chicken Meatballs for another comforting meal the whole family will love!
Ingredients Needed
- Chicken: While I opted for boneless skinless chicken breasts, you can use boneless skinless chicken thighs or even chicken tenders if desired. If changing the cut of chicken, you may need to change the cook time.
- Flour: all purpose flour
- Herbs and spices: salt, black pepper, onion powder, Italian seasoning, and freshly chopped parsley
- Cooking oil: I use olive oil but any oil will work.
- Butter: Either salted or unsalted works here.
- Garlic: Fresh minced is always preferred.
- Chicken stock: I use low sodium chicken stock, but regular also works fine.
- Heavy cream: This can be substituted for whole milk for a thinner sauce.
How To Make Creamy Garlic Chicken
- Step 1: Use a sharp knife to fillet your chicken breasts on a cutting board into two thinner slices.
- Step 2: When cutting your boneless chicken breasts, try to make them even thickness and lay them on the cutting board when cut.
- Step 3: Cover each piece of chicken with a piece of plastic wrap and use a meat mallet to pound out the chicken until each piece is roughly ½ inch thick.
- Step 4: Rub both sides of the chicken with flour, salt, and pepper.
- Step 5: Rub both sides of the chicken with flour, salt, and pepper.
- Step 6: Add a little oil to your large skillet and sear chicken on both sides to keep the juices in before removing from the pan.
- Step 7: Next, melt butter and add the garlic to the pan. Use a wooden spoon to scrape the browned bits of chicken leftover and garlic to get all the yummy flavor.
- Step 8: Then add the flour into the pan and stir.
- Step 9: Stir in the heavy cream with salt and pepper to taste.
- Step 10: Add chicken back to the skillet and simmer before garnishing with fresh parsley.
Recipe Tips
- When storing leftovers, add any extra sauce that you may have to your airtight container so it doesn't dry out when reheating.
- Always use a meat thermometer to ensure the internal temperature of your chicken reaches 165F before consuming.
- Don't skip the pounding process, it really makes your chicken nice and tender and helps it cook evenly..
- Be sure to scrape the skillet well to get any of the brown bits to bring as much flavor to your sauce as possible.
Recipe Faq's
There are many ways to serve it. Try serving with mashed potatoes, cauliflower mash, brown rice, or over a bed of pasta or zucchini noodles to soak up all the delicious sauce and round out the meal a little more. It would even be delicious served with a side of green beans, a large green salad with a slice of garlic bread. If serving over pasta sounds like something you would enjoy, I suggest you also look at my Creamy Chicken Pasta recipe.
Round out the dish by adding some veggies like cherry tomatoes, broccoli florets, spinach, or mushrooms.
Yes, this recipe freezes well, thaw overnight in the refrigerator and reheat slowly in a skillet.
Garlic cream sauce has heavy cream, lots of garlic, Italian seasoning, and onion powder. Delicious all by itself over rice!
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Creamy Garlic Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 large boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoon all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
Garlic Sauce
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 8 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1 cup chicken stock low sodium
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- Fresh chopped parsley
Instructions
- Place the chicken breasts on a cutting board slice the chicken into two thinner slices.
- Place a piece of plastic wrap on top of the chicken and using a meat mallet or rolling pin pound out the chicken breasts to about ½ inch thick.
- Rub the flour over both sides of the chicken and sprinkle the salt and pepper evenly.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet on medium high heat. Sear the chicken for 4 minutes per side and remove to a plate.
- Reduce heat to medium and add the butter and garlic to the skillet and let melt, scraping the bits off the bottom.
- Sprinkle in the flour and cook another minute, then whisk in the chicken stock, onion powder and Italian seasoning and simmer 1-2 minutes until thickened.
- Whisk in the heavy cream and salt and pepper add more to taste if needed.
- Add the chicken back in and simmer on low 3-5 minutes.
- Garnish with chopped parsley and serve!
Thanks for sharing this recipe. My family loves it.
Love how easy and delicious this recipe was!
Soooo good! That sauce is everything!
Yay happy to hear that 🙂
So yummy! My family loved it!
This was so delicious!
Sounds great can’t wait to try this