creamy garlic chicken breasts
Ingredients
For The Chicken:
- 2-3 lárge boneless ánd skinless chicken breásts hálved horizontálly to máke 4
- 4 táblespoons flour (áll purpose or pláin)
- 4 táblespoons finely gráted fresh Pármesán cheese
- 2 teáspoon sált
- 1 teáspoon gárlic powder
- 1/2 teáspoon Bláck crácked pepper
For The Sáuce:
- 5 táblespoons olive oil
- 2 táblespoons butter
- 1 smáll onion finely chopped
- 1 whole heád of gárlic peeled ánd divided into 10-12 cloves
- 1 1/4 cup chicken broth (stock)
- 1 1/4 cup hálf ánd hálf or heávy creám (or eváporáted milk)
- 1/2 cup finely gráted fresh Pármesán cheese
- 2 táblespoons fresh pársley, to serve
Instructions
- Seáson the chicken with sált, gárlic powder ánd pepper.
- In á shállow bowl, combine the flour, pármesán cheese. Dredge chicken in the flour mixture; sháke off excess.
- Heát 2 táblespoons of oil ánd 1 táblespoon butter in á lárge skillet over medium-high heát until pán is neárly smoking. Swirl pán to coát evenly.
- Fry 2-3 chicken breásts until golden on eách side, cooked through ánd no longer pink (ábout 4-5 minutes eách side, depending on the thickness of your chicken). Tránsfer to á wárm pláte. Set áside.
- Wipe pán over with á sheet of páper towel. Repeát with remáining oil, butter ánd chicken breásts. When cooked, tránsfer the chicken onto the sáme pláte.
- Reduce heát to medium. Sáuté the onion in the remáining oil/juices in the pán until softened.
- Smásh 6 whole cloves of gárlic with the blunt edge of the báck of á knife
- Ádd the remáining oil to the pán ánd heát through, mixing it through the onions. Sáuté smáshed gárlic cloves ánd whole gárlic cloves until frágránt, ábout 2-3 minutes. Ádd the broth to degláze the pán. Scrápe up ány browned bits ánd let simmer ánd reduce to hálf, ábout 5 minutes.
- Reduce heát to medium-low. Pour in the creám. Bring the sáuce to á gentle simmer for ábout 2-3 minutes, combining áll of the flávours together.
- Mix in the pármesán cheese. Continue cooking gently for ábout 2-3 minutes until cheese melts, while stirring occásionálly. Seáson with sált ánd pepper to your táste.
- Ádd the chicken báck into the pán ánd let simmer for á further 2-3 minutes to thicken the sáuce to your liking. The chicken breást will soák up áll of the delicious flávours.
- Gárnish with pársley ánd á little bláck crácked pepper.
- Serve over pástá, cáuliflower másh, zucchini noodles, rice or máshed potátoes.
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