One Pot Garlic Butter Chicken Thighs and Mushrooms
One Pot Garlic Butter Chicken Thighs and Mushrooms - decadently delicious chicken thighs and a mushroom side dish all in one pan with the most amazingly delicious garlic butter sauce!
Servings: 6
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp butter divided
- 1 pinch sea salt dont use much unless you are using low sodium chicken broth
- 4 chicken thighs bones removed (skinless or with skin OK)
- 6-10 cloves garlic minced
- 8 oz cremini mushrooms diced
- 1 tbsp flour omit if keto
- 1 cup chicken stock
- ¼ tsp red pepper flakes
- ½ cup cilantro diced, optional
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- ¼ cup parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Heat a heavy pan on medium high until very hot.
- Add butter, swirl around pan, and let melt.
- When butter is foamy and melted, add chicken thighs.
- Very lightly salt chicken thighs.
- Cook chicken thighs 5 minutes on each side, until lovely golden brown.
- When chicken thighs are well browned, remove them from pan - do not drain pan grease. Set the chicken aside.
- Add garlic to pan, stir well.
- Add mushrooms to pan, stirring occasionally to keep mushrooms and garlic from burning.
- Add second half of butter to pan, let melt.
- Brown the garlic and mushrooms for about 4-6 minutes. Do not let garlic burn, reduce heat if needed.
- Add red pepper flakes and cilantro to the mushrooms and stir.
- Sprinkle the flour over the sauteed vegetables, stir and let it cook off for a minute or two.
- Add stock, lemon juice, and cheese.
- Stir well, being sure to scrape up any browned bits from bottom of pan.
- Bring to a boil, let reduce and thicken slightly for 2 minutes.
- Add chicken thighs back to pan, let sauce reduce another 5-8 minutes, flipping chicken occasionally, until thick and chicken thighs are 165 internal temp.
- Remove from pan and serve immediately!
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Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 282kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 98mg | Sodium: 253mg | Potassium: 401mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 442IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 74mg | Iron: 1mg
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