This recipe makes a great family dinner, and could be easily multiplied up for when you may have more guests. Chicken, cream and garlic, what’s not to like about it?! There’s a real depth of flavour to the sauce too with mustard, Worcestershire sauce, paprika and chive really packing a flavour punch.
Thanks again to our super chef Dianne for this recipe.
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Creamy Garlic Chicken
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Description
Delicious family meal
Ingredients
400g chicken breast or thigh meat (skin and visible fat removed), thinly sliced.
Salt and pepper
Low calorie cooking spray
1 tsp white wine vinegar or cider vinegar
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce (can use a gluten free alternative)
400ml meat stock (1 beef stock cube dissolved in 400ml boiling water and mixed with a chicken stock pot)
1 onion, thinly sliced
250g button mushrooms, thinly sliced
3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced or crushed
1 tsp Dijon mustard
175g low-fat cream cheese
To Serve:
Fresh chives, chopped
Sweet smoked paprika
Instructions
- Season the chicken with a little sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, then set aside.
- Spray a large frying pan with low calorie cooking spray and place on a medium heat.
- Add the chicken to the pan and quickly seal on all sides, then remove the meat from the pan, and set aside.
- Return the pan to the medium heat. Add the vinegar to the Worcestershire sauce and deglaze the pan with the mixture, scraping and stirring the browned bits from the pan – use some of the stock if you need to.
- When most of the liquid has evaporated spray the pan with some low calorie cooking spray. Add the onion, mushrooms and garlic and sauté for 5 minutes until they start to brown, then add the Dijon mustard and cook for a minute or two, stirring constantly.
- Add the stock to the pan and simmer until the liquid has halved.
- Reduce the heat to low and stir in the cream cheese, making sure there are no lumps of cheese remaining.
- Return the chicken to the pan, stir well and simmer for 5-10 minutes until the chicken is cooked. If the sauce looks a little thick you can add some more water until it reaches the consistency you prefer.
- Sprinkle with the chopped chives and paprika (optional) and serve.
Notes
This can be gluten free (use a gluten free stock cube and change Worcestershire sauce)
This can be batch cooked and frozen
Serve with rice or potatoes or/and vegetable but make sure you add your calories
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 20
Nutrition
- Calories: 260
3 replies on “Creamy Garlic Chicken”
Love this very tasty
Trying this tomorrow night and looking forward to it, we like a bit of creamy chicken at home!
I make this from the PON book a lot, always goes down well 😋