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Creamy Parmesan Garlic Mushroom Chicken is ready in just 30 minutes and the parmesan garlic sauce will wow the entire family! This will become a new favorite!
Chicken is a favorite dish in our family and all over the world. You have to try these fan favorites, Tuscan Garlic, Slow Cooker Crack Chicken, and Fried Rice.
Creamy Parmesan Garlic Mushroom Chicken
Skillet meals are our favorite lately. Just like this Skillet Italian Sausage and Peppers and Chili’s Skillet Queso, this mushroom chicken is amazing! This is ready in just 30 minutes and they taste like they are from a restaurant. And you guys. This Creamy Parmesan Garlic Sauce is ON POINT! It will be one of the best sauces that you will ever make! My son said this is one of the best things he has ever eaten! I think my son is the biggest fan of my cooking. My other one is unpredictable and pretty picky but he LOVED this meal as well. Of course, he had to scrape the mushrooms and spinach off but said it was amazing.
I promise that you guys are going to love this meal just as much as we did! I have been perfecting this creamy sauce for so long and it is literally amazing. All of my chicken skillet dishes have been getting a ton of attention. Try Creamy Skillet Chicken Cacciatore and Skillet French Onion Chicken to know what I mean! These dishes are fast, delicious, and super easy. I know that you are going to love this one too!
Ingredients For Creamy Garlic Mushroom Chicken
You can also use boneless skinless chicken thighs in this dish with success. For a different twist substitute the chicken with salmon or shrimp. Use the type of mushrooms you and your family love best.
- Boneless skinless chicken breasts: Try to pick chicken that is all the same size and thickness for even cooking.
- Olive oil: Use a good grade extra virgin olive oil.
- Salt and Pepper: Salt and pepper to taste.
- Sliced mushrooms: You can slice your own or buy presliced mushrooms. Button, baby portabella, and cremici work best.
Creamy Parmesan Garlic Sauce
Using full-fat ingredients for the sauce will give you the creamiest results. Half and half will be the best next thing to heavy creamy. This creates a super yummy creamy rich sauce that is unbelievably satisfying.
- Butter: Use real butter not a butter substitue for the best flavor.
- Garlic cloves minced: Fresh garlic gives a pungent flavor that complilments the mushrooms.
- Flour: Thickens the sauce.
- Chicken broth: Chicken will give the best flavor.
- Heavy cream or half and half: Either will give flavor and creaminess.
- Grated parmesan cheese: Grate your own cheese so it will melt the best.
- Garlic powder: Adds extra flavor without bulk.
- Pepper and Salt: Add more or less to taste.
- Spinach: Chopped finely. You don’t want too much bulk.
How to Make Parmesan Garlic Mushroom Chicken
Cooking the chicken till it’s done and tender, but not overcooked and dry, is the goal here. Remember that chicken will continue to cook a bit after it’s removed from the pan. So you can remove the chicken right before it’s done and it will be juicy and tender.
- Cook the Chicken: In a large skillet add olive oil and cook the chicken on medium high heat for 3-5 minutes on each side or until brown on each side and cooked until no longer pink in center. Remove chicken and set aside on a plate. Add the sliced mushrooms and cook for a few minutes until tender. Remove and set aside.
- Make the Sauce: To make the sauce add the butter and melt. Add garlic and cook until tender. Whisk in the flour until it thickens. Whisk in chicken broth, heavy cream, parmesan cheese, garlic powder, pepper and salt. Add the spinach and let simmer until it starts to thicken and spinach wilts. Add the chicken and mushrooms back to the sauce and serve over pasta is desired.
Creamy Garlic Mushroom Chicken Tips
The flavor for this dish comes from the umami in the mushrooms, the saltiness from the parmesan cheese, and the pungent garlic. The easiness of this dish is going to be mind-blowing after you taste how incredible this is.
- Chicken Breasts: There are a few ways to ensure you get moist tender chicken. Pound skinless boneless chicken breasts till they are all the same thickness. This will ensure the chicken cooks at the same rate so it finishes at the same time. You can also pre-slice the chicken into bite-sized pieces. This will also make sure the chicken cooks at the same time.
- Chicken Thighs: You can also use boneless, skinless chicken thighs in this dish. The brown meat will create extra moist, tender chicken.
- When is the Chicken Done?: Use a meat thermometer to make sure the chicken reaches 160 degrees for white meat and 165 for dark meat. You can remove the chicken from the pan once it hits 158 degrees. Letting the chicken rest it will continue to both cook and redistribute the juices throughout the meat.
- Spinach: If you want, you can chop the spinach into bite sized pieces instead of leaving it big.
How to Serve This Creamy Chicken Dish
This is so creamy and so savory, you are going to want to make sure that you get every single drop of sauce up off your plate. Serve this over rice, mashed potatoes, or pasta to help soak up the sauce. For low carb options you can serve over zucchini zoodles, mashed cauliflower, or steamed vegetables. Use a crusty bread to help clean your plate clean. This is going to be a dinner you put on repeat.
How To Store Creamy Mushroom Chicken
Because of the cream in this dish, I do not recommend freezing. When you warm it up it will separate and the texture will be off, although it will still taste amazing. Keep this in the fridge in an air-tight container for up to 4 days. Reheat in the microwave or in a pan on the stove.
More Chicken Recipes You Have to Try
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Creamy Parmesan Garlic Mushroom Chicken
Ingredients
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, thinly sliced
- 2 Tablespoons Olive oil
- Salt Pepper
- 8 ounces sliced mushrooms
Creamy Parmesan Garlic Sauce:
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 cup heavy cream or half and half
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup spinach chopped
Instructions
- In a large skillet add olive oil and cook the chicken on medium high heat for 3-5 minutes on each side or until brown on each side and cooked until no longer pink in center. Remove chicken and set aside on a plate. Add the sliced mushrooms and cook for a few minutes until tender. Remove and set aside.
- To make the sauce add the butter and melt. Add garlic and cook until tender. Whisk in the flour until it thickens. Whisk in chicken broth, heavy cream, parmesan cheese, garlic powder, pepper and salt. Add the spinach and let simmer until it starts to thicken and spinach wilts. Add the chicken and ,mushrooms back to the sauce and serve over pasta is desired.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
this was a major hit with the family tonight, very easy to prepare. thanks for sharing!
This looks amazing, I can’t wait to try! What did you season the chicken with?
The chicken is not seasoned. It is covered in the sauce that is made after the chicken has been cooked. Hope that helps! Enjoy your meal! XOXO
I just made this tonight, it is delicious! I didn’t have spinach so I didnt add it but it was wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
Delicious
Hi Alyssa!
CREAMY PARMESAN GARLIC MUSHROOM CHICKEN.
First of all I made this recipe last night and it was delicious! Some of my Keto friends would like to know the nutritional value, carbs and so on. Is there information available on this? Thanks!
I do not have know enough about Keto to post about it. Let me know if you have any more information on it. XOXO
Just post the nutritional values and us Keto folks can figure out if it fits. I know for sure I will leave out the flour to make it more Keto. I know that will make the sauce thinner but that’s ok.
For my Keto friends.. I’m about to make this, but switched out flower for almond flower and calculated the nutrition
Calories: 450
Fat: 33G
Carbs: 6.5G
Net Carbs: 5.6G
Fiber: 0.9G
Protein: 33G
Thank you for this! Although I love this dish and probably would make it whether it were Keto friendly or not. One of our favorites.
Thank you!
Yes please post if you find out nutritional info 😉 Came here looking for just that. I’ve made this before & it’s SO yummy, I’m making it again tonight.
This dish is absolutely delicious! Ive lost track as to the number of times I’ve fixed it, and shared the recipe with friends!
yummy it was so good. I will make this again.
We made this dish ,wonderful. I would like to know cal count and carbs if possible .thank you,,,,,,,,
At this time I do not have nutritional information but it is in the works. I like to use myfitnesspal.com or skinny taste.com for any nutritional facts. Hope that helps! XOXO
I just made this recipe tonight and DH and I absolutely loved it! We’re having company next week and I’m planning to make Creamy Garlic Parmesan Mushroom Chicken. I have one question; when I read the recipe I sliced the chicken breasts across the grain. I watched your video just now and it looks like the chicken breasts length wise instead? Any tips on how you accomplished that with slippery chicken? It certainly looks prettier the way the video shows the chicken in larger slices than my smaller slices. Thank you for sharing!
LOVE IT!! Have made it several times.
I just made this for our New Years Eve get together. It was a huge hit!
I will definitely be trying some of your other recipes.
I finally made this recipe and it is DELICIOUS! I followed the recipe exactly – easy to make and the family loved it! Thanks
I made it and it was amazing! The whole family loves it. Uts now in my recipe box
This was soo good. My boyfriend licked the plare
My husbands all time favorite meal was from this Italian restaurant in town that now closed. I started the search to recreate it. I stumbled upon your recipe and made it tonight and had to come and post this was it!! I’m thrilled I was able to recreate his favorite dish!! I just subbed out mushrooms for broccoli and added pasta for the kids. Such a huge hit and it’s now been requested to be made every week! Thank you so much for this delicious dish!!
Shouldn’t the butter read 1/4 stick and not 1/4 cup?