How To Make Creamy Garlic Herb Chicken
Weeknight dinners are now made easy and here’s a recipe that’s a perfect example. A simple pan-seared chicken is smothered in a creamy garlic sauce.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 4chicken breastsboneless skinless
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1½tbspolive oil
- 1tbspbutter
- 1tbspfresh garlicminced ((3 cloves))
- 2tspall-purpose flour
- 1cupmilk((anything but skim))
- 4ozcream cheese(diced into small cubes)
- 1tspfresh thymeminced
- 1tspfresh rosemaryminced
- 1tbspfresh parsleyminced, ((optional))
Instructions
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Pound chicken evenly with the flat side of a meat mallet to ½-inch thickness.
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Heat skillet over medium-high heat then add oil.
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Season both chicken with salt and pepper.
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Place chicken in skillet and cook 6 to 7 minutes, or until golden brown on bottom, the flip and continue to cook until chicken breasts register 165 degrees F in center, about 5 to 6 minutes longer.
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Transfer chicken to a plate, tent with foil to keep warm.
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Reduce burner to medium heat and melt butter in now empty skillet.
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Add in garlic and saute until just lightly golden, about 20 seconds. Add in flour and cook and stir constantly until just lightly golden, about 20 seconds.
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While whisking pour in milk, then add in diced cream cheese, rosemary and thyme. Season with a little salt and pepper to taste.
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Cook mixture whisking constantly to melt cream cheese, and let it come to a simmer.
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Return chicken to pan, spoon sauce over chicken.
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Sprinkle with parsley if desired and serve immediately.
Nutrition
- Calories: 514.41kcal
- Fat: 35.80g
- Saturated Fat: 13.78g
- Trans Fat: 0.30g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 14.04g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 4.60g
- Carbohydrates: 6.46g
- Fiber: 0.37g
- Sugar: 4.03g
- Protein: 40.31g
- Cholesterol: 156.28mg
- Sodium: 645.42mg
- Calcium: 127.40mg
- Potassium: 532.03mg
- Iron: 1.73mg
- Vitamin A: 202.82µg
- Vitamin C: 2.28mg
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