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    Home » Chicken » Creamy Garlic Mushroom Chicken

    Creamy Garlic Mushroom Chicken

    LAST UPDATED: May 29, 2022 | PUBLISHED: May 29, 2022 | BY: Kim

    Creamy Mushroom Chicken - pin

    This Creamy Garlic Mushroom Chicken is an easy one pot meal on the table in under 20 minutes. With a thick and luscious creamy sauce loaded with mushroom, garlic and flavour its perfect for low carb dinners and lunches.

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    creamy mushroom chicken in a bowl with cauliflower rice

    Recipe Highlights

    • Easy one pot chicken on the table in under 20 minutes
    • Make it low carb with store bought cauliflower rice, or easy make at home fried cauliflower rice
    • The mushroom sauce is perfectly seasoned with flavours of garlic, onion and earthy mushrooms
    • Use your favourite mushrooms, or a combination of different ones
    • The sauce is thick, creamy and luscious and ideal for soaking up rice or potato
    • Great for leftovers for lunch the next day
    • Not spicy, but is excellent with red chilli flakes sprinkled on top for those who like a little heat

    Ingredients

    Ingredients for creamy mushroom chicken

    Other mushrooms that would be good to use include:

    • Button mushrooms (this is what I used)
    • Swiss brown mushrooms
    • Portobella mushrooms
    • Flat or cup mushrooms
    • Japanese mushrooms like enoki, shitake and oyster

    Using a combination of mushrooms will add texture and flavour as well make the dish more interesting!

    Ingredient Notes

    Mushrooms: I used button mushrooms chopped into roughly the same size so they would cook evenly. These are a fairly tasting mild mushroom so you can use a lot without the taste becomming overpowering.

    Chicken: If you buy chicken breasts, slice them through the middle to create two fillets from the one breast. This is so it cooks quickly and evenly in the pan. Aternatively you could buy chicken fillets so you can skip the step of having to slice and flatten them.

    Onion and Garlic: These for the flavour base of the sauce. Make sure to dice the onion as finely as you can so you don't get big chunks of it in the sauce, and the same goes for the garlic. Using bottled garlic is a good option, but you tend to need more of it as its not as strong as using fresh garlic

    Butter and Cream: Using a good quality full fat butter and cream will produce a rich and decadent creamy sauce. I love using low fat butter and cream to make it a little less rich but still very delicious. Any type of heaving or cooking cream will work.

    Salt, Pepper and Chives: These provide seasoning for the dish. Ordinary sea salt can be used, or even one of garlic salt or onion salt in the same quantity. Chives provides colour and freshness and parsely, thyme, or rosemary can be substituted.

    Cornflour (Cornstarch): This is the thickening agent used to thicken the sauce. It works with heat to create the perfect sauce consistency. It is mixed with water to create a "slurry" to add to the sauce to thicken it whilst it is on high heat and it will thicken quite quickly.

    How to Make

    1. Cook Chicken: Cook the chicken pieces in a pan on the stovetop on a medium to high heat for around 4 minutes each side, until golden brown. Once chicken is cooked, remove from pan and set aside.
    4 chicken fillets cooking in a pan
    1. Make Mushroom Sauce Base: In the same pan that the chicken was in, add the butter, garlic, diced mushrooms and onion. Toss about for a few minutes until just mushrooms begin soften and onions become translucent (about 1 minute or so).
    2. Add Liquids and seasoning to Sauce: Add chicken stock/broth, cream, salt, pepper and stir to combine until a sauce is formed.
    mushroom sauce cooking in a pan
    1. Thicken Sauce: Make a cornflour slurry by adding 1 tablespoon of water to ¼ cup tap water, stirring to combine. Pour into the sauce mixture and stir through to thicken. Stir the chives through the sauce and remove from heat.
    2. Add Chicken to Pan: Add the chicken pieces and cover with sauce
    Thickening mushroom sauce in a pan
    1. Serve: divide chicken pieces and mushroom sauce evenly between 4 dishes and serve over cauliflower rice. Sprinkle red chilli flakes and a little lemon zest over each

    Recipe Add-Ins

    • Heat: add freshed diced red or green chilli into the sauce, or dried red chilli flakes, or alternatively a little ground chilli powder
    • Spice: Add half a teaspoon of smoked paprika, cajun seasoning, or lemon pepper stirred through the sauce.
    • Savouriness: Sprinkle some grated parmesan into the sauce for extra sharpness and bite.
    • Freshness: Add the zest of half a lemon to the sauce, and or a squeeze of lemon to help cut through the rich creamy sauce. Or serve a lemon wedge on the side.
    creamy mushroom chicken and cauliflower rice on a fork

    Recipe Tips

    • Storage: Store leftovers in an air tight container in the fridge for upto 3 days
    • Freezing: This recipe freezes well. Make sure to freeze in portion sized servings in a freezer container with lid
    • Reheating: to reheat, use the defrost setting on your microwave, or put into the fridge overnight to let id defrost naturally.

    Serving Options

    • Regular: steamed jasmine rice, brown rice, pasta, spaghetti, noodles, pearl cous cous, quinoa, mashed potato, roast sweet potato
    • Low Carb: cauliflower fried rice, zucchini garlic noodles, butterbean mash, lentils, black beans

    An Alternative to Mushrooms

    Use spinach instead to make a creamy spinach dressing.  Add a touch of parmesan along with a few spices and a drizzle of lemon juice and instead of Creamy Garlic Mushroom Chicken, you have Creamy Garlic Spinach Chicken.

    fork dipped in Creamy Mushroom Chicken

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    Creamy Garlic Mushroom Chicken

    Kim
    This Creamy Garlic Mushroom Chicken is a healthy and easy weeknight meal. It’s on the table in under 30 minutes and is a light and creamy mushroom sauce that won’t weigh you down.  
    3.80 from 5 votes
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 20 mins
    Total Time 30 mins
    Course Dinner
    Cuisine Australian
    Servings 4 servings
    Calories 252 kcal

    Ingredients
     

    Chicken

    • 4 skinless chicken fillets - approx. 125 grams/4 1.2 oz each

    Mushroom Sauce

    • ½ cup Cooking/Heavy Cream
    • ½ cup Chicken stock/broth
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 1 teaspoon black pepper
    • 1 cup Button mushrooms diced
    • 1 tablespoon Butter
    • 2 tablespoons Crushed garlic
    • ⅓ cup Onion - finely diced
    • 2 tablespoons Chives - diced
    • 1 tablespoon Cornflour/Cornstarch
    • ¼ cup water

    To Serve

    • Cauliflower Rice

    Option to Serve

    • 1 tablespoon Lemon Zest
    • 1 teaspoon Red Pepper Flakes/Chilli Flakes

    Instructions
     

    • Cook Chicken: Cook the chicken pieces in a pan on the stovetop on a medium to high heat for around 4 minutes each side, until golden brown. Once chicken is cooked, remove from pan and set aside.
    • Make Mushroom Sauce Base: In the same pan that the chicken was in, add the butter, garlic, diced mushrooms and onion. Toss about for a few minutes until just mushrooms begin soften and onions become translucent (about 1 minute or so)
    • Add Liquids and seasoning to Sauce: Add chicken stock/broth, cream, salt, pepper and stir to combine until a sauce is formed.
    • Thicken Sauce: Make a cornflour slurry by adding 1 tablespoon of water to ¼ cup tap water, stirring to combine. Pour into the sauce mixture and stir through to thicken.
    • Add Chives: Stir the chives through the sauce and remove from heat
    • Add Chicken to Pan: Add the chicken pieces and cover with sauce
    • Serve: divide chicken pieces and mushroom sauce evenly between 4 dishes and serve over cauliflower rice. Sprinkle red chilli flakes and a little lemon zest over each

    Notes

    • Mushrooms: I used button mushrooms chopped into roughly the same size so they would cook evenly. These are a fairly tasting mild mushroom so you can use a lot without the taste becomming overpowering.
    • Chicken: If you buy chicken breasts, slice them through the middle to create two fillets from the one breast. This is so it cooks quickly and evenly in the pan. Aternatively you could buy chicken fillets so you can skip the step of having to slice and flatten them.
    • Onion and Garlic: These for the flavour base of the sauce. Make sure to dice the onion as finely as you can so you don't get big chunks of it in the sauce, and the same goes for the garlic. Using bottled garlic is a good option, but you tend to need more of it as its not as strong as using fresh garlic
    • Butter and Cream: Using a good quality full fat butter and cream will produce a rich and decadent creamy sauce. I love using low fat butter and cream to make it a little less rich but still very delicious. Any type of heaving or cooking cream will work.
    • Salt, Pepper and Chives: These provide seasoning for the dish. Ordinary sea salt can be used, or even one of garlic salt or onion salt in the same quantity. Chives provides colour and freshness and parsely, thyme, or rosemary can be substituted.
    • Cornflour (Cornstarch): This is the thickening agent used to thicken the sauce. It works with heat to create the perfect sauce consistency. It is mixed with water to create a "slurry" to add to the sauce to thicken it whilst it is on high heat and it will thicken quite quickly.
    • Nutrition does not include the calories for cauliflower rice.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 252kcalCarbohydrates: 14gProtein: 38gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 1gFiber: 7gSugar: 3g

    Note: Sugars contained in this recipe are from naturally occurring sugars in fruits, vegetables or other natural sweeteners.

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    Comments

    1. Bruce

      January 18, 2018 at 8:22 am

      5 stars
      I made this and it was super easy and perfect for my new healthy eating regime after the over indulgences of christmas

      Reply
    2. Lorraine Parente

      January 07, 2018 at 8:57 am

      Where 's the garlic in this recipe??

      Reply
      • Kim

        January 07, 2018 at 9:33 am

        Oops, sorry about that. I've added it into the recipe now. 1 - 2 tablespoons of garlic for the sauce, depending on your taste. I'm more around the 2 tablespoons as I like alot of garlic.

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