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Creamy Tuscan Garlic Chicken has the most amazing creamy garlic sauce with spinach and sun dried tomatoes. This is a restaurant quality meal that’s easy to make at home in just 30 minutes!
Also try Creamy Tuscan Garlic Shrimp and Insanely Good Creamy Tuscan Garlic Salmon. They are also unforgettable Tuscan Garlic meals your family will be so impressed with!
Creamy Tuscan Garlic Chicken
This Creamy Tuscan Garlic Chicken tastes like it is straight from a restaurant. The first time I made it, I couldn’t even get over how amazing the creamy sauce was! It has such a delicious creamy garlic taste with spinach and sun dried tomatoes. The chicken is so tender and juicy every bite just melts in your mouth! Everyone who eats this chicken falls in love with it at first bite!
Not only does it taste amazing, but this Tuscan Garlic Chicken is so easy to make!! The creamy sauce whisks together so perfectly and uses familiar ingredients you already love. You will want to lick your plate clean because it is that good! This is a must try recipe that involves no-fuss prep with gourmet looking results. Put this meal at the top of your must make list!
What’s in Creamy Tuscan Garlic Chicken?
Many of these ingredients are basics you will already have in your pantry or refrigerator. They come together so easily to make the BEST Creamy Tuscan Garlic Chicken I have ever had!
- Boneless skinless chicken breasts: Thinly sliced chicken will work best because it will cook evenly and quickly.
- Olive oil: To cook the chicken in at medium-high heat.
- Salt: Season chicken breast as it cooks.
- Heavy cream: The slightly sweet and creamy base of the sauce.
- Chicken broth: To thin out the sauce a bit.
- Garlic powder: Adds rich bold garlic flavor to the sauce.
- Italian seasoning: This is the perfect blend of seasonings that give your sauce unbelievably good flavor.
- Parmesan cheese: Use freshly grated if possible for the best consistency in your sauce.
- Spinach: Chop and add to the cream sauce at the end after lowering heat to a simmer.
- Sun dried tomatoes: The flavor of the sun-dried tomatoes in the cream sauce is amazing!!
How to Make Tuscan Chicken
This is a restaurant quality meal that you can quickly and easily put together at home. It is effortless, but so impressive. The taste is SOO GOOD you will be obsessed with this dinner!
- Cook 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. Then, remove chicken and set aside on a plate.
- Whisk together cream sauce: Add the heavy cream, chicken broth, garlic powder, italian seasoning, and parmesan cheese. Immediately begin to whisk over medium high heat until it starts to thicken. Finally, add in the spinach and sundried tomatoes and let it simmer until the spinach starts to wilt.
- Combine sauce and chicken: Lastly, add the chicken back to the pan and serve over pasta if desired.
Tips for Perfectly Creamy Tuscan Chicken
Creamy Tuscan Chicken is one of the best things our family has had. We often serve this over pasta to make it into a delicious meal. You guys are going to love the flavors and versatility of this creamy chicken just as much as we do!
- Serve with: Your favorite pasta, Insta Pot Mashed Potatoes or Mashed Cauliflower. Freshly steamed veggies or a light salad are great sides to add freshness to the meal. Finally, prepare The Best Homemade Garlic Bread, because you will definitely want to be scraping the creamy sauce up with your bread at the end!
- Protein: Swap out the chicken for salmon or shrimp. The sweet garlic cream sauce will pair perfectly with these meats as well and give you some variety in your proteins.
- How to know when the chicken is done: To ensure your chicken is cooked throughout, look for the juices to run clear. Also, keep in mind chicken must be cooked to an internal temperature of 165 degrees. So, use a meat thermometer to be sure you have perfectly cooked chicken.
- Creamy Sauce: For the most creamy sauce, be sure you’re using freshly grated parmesan cheese. Already shredded cheeses are coated with preservatives that keep them from melting completely and will result in grainy sauce.
- Tender Chicken: Make sure your chicken is at room temperature before cooking. It will cook more evenly than if it is still cold. Also, dry it completely and season it with salt as it cooks in the oil coated pan.
Storing Creamy Tuscan Chicken:
Leftovers with this meal are extremely unlikely. However, it can be made ahead to save you time on a busy night. To store it you will want to let it cool completely. Then, within 2 hours of cooking, store it in an airtight container. After storing, it will remain good for 3-4 days in the refrigerator or 6 months in a freezer. To thaw from frozen, heat it up on the stove-top. You need whisk sauce thoroughly to get the sauce back to its original creamy consistency. Add additional chicken broth or cream if your sauce is breaking.
More Creamy Chicken Recipes:
- One Pot Creamy Parmesan Chicken Tortellini
- Creamy Lemon Parmesan Chicken
- Stuffed Tuscan Garlic Chicken
- Creamy Chicken Marsala
- Creamy Balsamic Mushroom Bacon Chicken
Creamy Tuscan Garlic Chicken
Ingredients
- 1½ pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts thinly sliced
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon italian seasoning
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
- 1 cup spinach chopped
- 1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes
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 heavy cream, chicken broth, garlic powder, italian seasoning, and parmesan cheese. Whisk over medium high heat until it starts to thicken. Add the spinach and sundried tomatoes and let it simmer until the spinach starts to wilt. Add the chicken back to the pan and serve over pasta if desired.
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Nutrition
Serves: 6
All nutritional information is based on third party calculations and is only an estimate. Each recipe and nutritional value will vary depending on the brands you use, measuring methods and portion sizes per household.
Delicious! Made it last Thursday and again tonight. I left the oil from the sun dried tomatoes in and chopped the tomatoes up. Great recipe! I just need to figure out how to get the sauce to be a little thicker.
i have made this 4 times now. FanTabUlous!! i like to add capers. just like it came from Olive Garden! i actually just had people who were NOT at my gathering ask me for the recipe after they heard about it. Now that speaks volumes!
I just made this for dinner. It was awesomely delicious! Thank you for sharing your recipe.
I made this tonight. OMG so easy but looks like a fancy dinner and soooo good. I paired it with a salad of baby spinach, apple, almonds and feta cheese. Definitely adding to the menu rotation.
Made this for our son’s birthday last night! It turned out delicious! Will definitely make it again!
Which Sun-dried tomato’s ? Packed in oil? Or dry?
Hey Melissa. I suspect the ones mentioned are the ones that come in oil when you purchase them and then for this recipe, you drain them on paper towel before using. From personal experience, depending which brand you buy, the oil itself is pretty damned good and shouldn’t be discarded out of hand without giving it some thought to other uses.
Even though it isn’t clarified in this recipe, I’m guessing it might be the same as what’s in her other very similar recipe— the sun-dried tomatoes in oil, thinly sliced. Hope that works for you! https://therecipecritic.com/stuffed-tuscan-garlic-chicken/
This is delicious and I love it just the way it is. However, I am doing while 30 and trying to find a way to make this compliant. Do you think coconut cream would work? Any suggestions are appreciated.
Can you use frozen chopped spinach for this?
You can try that but using frozen vegetables usually adds a lot more liquid to a recipe. I would use fresh if you can!
I used frozen, and it was great.
Loved it — made it for dinner and everyone loved it. This is going to be one of my regular dinners!
What’s the serving size? Tasty recipe, thanks!
This makes 6 servings!
Can this be made in a crockpot?
I haven’t tried it before but you could try it on low for 3-4 hours or high for 2-3 hours. Let me know how it turns out!
Hi Alyssa – Just wondering if thin sliced turkey breast cutlets would work as well?
I’ve never tried that but it should work! Let me know how it turns out!