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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.
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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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Delicious! Made tonight and served over egg noodles. I did cut up cooked chicken into bite size pieces before adding into sauce. It was so tasty. Great flavor.
That sounds great! Thank you so much for sharing!
I made this a month back and it was delicious…I am going to make it again for company.
It is one of the best! I am glad you loved it as much as we did!
I substituted Asiago for Parmesan, and served over gnocchi! Delicious! Definitely making again!
Oh crap that sounds good thanks for the idea lol
how do i cook the chicken if its bone in skin on? {id like to keep it that way} and no parm either! boo hoo
Adjust the cooking time for the chicken…
Really no need to leave a 3 star review because this recipe uses sliced chicken breast and you can’t figure it out.
So true, if they can’t figure out how to use the chicken they bought they certainly shouldn’t fault the recipe ! It’s great as is and I’ve been using it for years now ?
I tried this and it was absolutely delicious. ???
This recipe came out good {I’d like to keep it that way} I just went to any grocery store in all of America and bought parm. With money. It came in a thing. At the store. Where I bought it. boo hoo
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You are supposed to rate the recipe given, not rate it because it isn’t what you want???
Very unfair on the author! Boo hoo
I have made this many times and is even better the next day. I substituted the spinach for frozen peas. I always double the recipe and I use 2 kinds of mushrooms, white button mushrooms and small bella mushrooms. A famiy favorite!
Does chicken stock work instead of chicken broth? Just wondering x
Yes, that will work too
Its really a wow….. my hubby loved it…. thanks for d delicious recipe.
I love this recipe, but used left over roast chicken, (or would use thighs as moister) and also substituted coconut cream instead of cream.
30 Minutes?? To slice the chicken, wash and slice the mushrooms, chop the spinach, mince the garlic, grate the parmesan and measure the remaining ingredients? Plus 15 minutes of cooking time = nope! BUT is it worth every single moment it takes to make this? YES! It is fantastic!! Thank you so much!
Creamy parmessan chicken is decadent and delicious, thank you!
This is a family favorite. One of our most made dishes! We serve over spaghetti squash. (If you do this- do not package up leftovers in the same dish as the spaghetti squash tends to be watery when stored). So yummy! Thanks for sharing!
Another option for carb watchers is to omit the spinach from the recipe and instead cook enough spinach separately to serve the chicken/mushroom/sauce mixture on a bed of spinach instead of over pasta. Obviously that would increase the spinach flavor overall, but who doesn’t like more spinach? 🙂
Soooo good and so easy! Served with mashed sweet potato and veg. Everyone loved it and it’s hard to make a meal in my house that everyone loves! Just as amazing the next day too – reheated perfectly x
I entered it into Carb Manager and this is what is said:
8g Total Carbs
7g Net Carbs
1g Fiber
32g Fat
33g Protein
446 Calories
Why do you use fresh garlic & garlic powder? Couldn’t you just use a couple of more garlic cloves?
Yes, garlic cloves would work great with this meal too.
For those of you who may be interested in a substitute for cream or half and half, try canned evaporated(NOT sweetened condensed) milk undiluted. You can even use a “lite” version. You won’t be forfeiting creamy richness. Give it a try. Always a pantry staple at my house.
This is guest worthy. I did add more mushrooms just because of our liking.
Delicious!