Garlic Mushroom Chicken Thighs (LOW CARB) is a quick throw together chicken recipe all cooked in one pan!
Golden seared chicken thighs in a delicious garlic butter mushroom sauce with a hint of herbs is THE weeknight dinner everyone raves about! The perfect dinner when your faced with minimal ingredient and no time. Serve these Garlic Mushroom Chicken Thighs over rice, pasta, mashed potatoes OR lower carb options like mashed cauliflower or zucchini noodles!
Chicken Mushroom
Who doesn’t love this flavour bomb? Many readers have been writing in asking how to simplify this Cheesy Garlic Butter Mushroom Stuffed Chicken recipe. Of COURSE I’m up for that and here it is! Garlic butter and mushrooms go hand in hand already, for breakfast, lunch or dinner. BUT throw in some juicy, golden chicken thighs and WHOA have mercy!
Boneless Chicken Thigh Recipe
We decided to use chicken thighs for this recipe because dark meat suits the natural juices released from mushrooms. Although we use chicken thighs, you can substitute them with skinless, boneless breasts or chicken tenders if you like and follow the rest of the directions. This is an extremely forgiving recipe!
Simple Ingredients
With only a handful of ingredients, you’ll have one of the BEST and easiest chicken recipes hit your dinner table.
Once your chicken is seared, move onto your garlic butter mushrooms! Cook them in the same pan your chicken was in, scraping up any browned bits from the base of the pan for extra flavour in the mushrooms.
Garlic Mushrooms
The simple sauce of the buttery garlic mushrooms mixed with the seared chicken is what really makes this Garlic Mushroom Chicken Thighs recipe amazing.
- Butter — we use unsalted to better adjust the saltiness in the recipe
- Garlic — use fresh or bottle minced garlic. Fresh is best!
- Mushrooms — brown or white mushrooms
- Herbs — we love thyme, rosemary and parsley! Not a fan of those? Use whatever herbs YOU like!
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Garlic Mushroom Chicken Thighs
Ingredients
For The Chicken:
- 1 1/2 pounds (700g) boneless skinless chicken thighs (around 6-8 fillets)
- 1 teaspoon each onion powder and garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon each of dried thyme and rosemary
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
For The Sauce:
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 8 ounces (250 g) sliced brown mushrooms
- 4 cloves garlic, minced (or 1 tablespoon minced garlic)
- 1 tablespoon fresh chopped parsley
- 1/2 - 1 teaspoon each of dried thyme and dried rosemary (adjust to your taste)
Instructions
- Pat chicken thighs dry with paper towel and trim off excess fat. Combine the onion powder, garlic powder, herbs, salt and pepper. Coat the chicken evenly with the combined seasoning.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of oil a large pan or skillet over medium-high heat and sear chicken thighs in batches until browned on each side and no longer pink in centre (about 8 minutes each side, depending on thickness). Add remaining oil if needed for second batch. Transfer to a plate; set aside and keep warm.
- To the same pan or skillet, melt the butter and add the mushrooms. Season with salt and pepper and cook until soft (about 3 minutes). Add the garlic, parsley, thyme and rosemary; sauté until fragrant (about 1 minute).
- Return chicken to the pan. Taste test and season with salt and pepper to your taste. Garnish with fresh parsley. Serve immediately.
Muanis says
I’ve done this so many times at this point that I can do almost without looking at the recipe. I like some of the comments around using white wine with the mushrooms and reduce that and also the flour with broth to make it creamy. I’ve done this with a simple risotto, plain rice and salad and it is a favorite in our house.
jane says
i love this dish so much! I have been making this with bone in, skin on thighs for years!
I season the thighs under and over the thighs with whatever I am in the mood for. Then heat a saucepan until very hot oner medium high heat. Then add a smidgen of EVOO and add Thighs skin side down. Do not disturb for about 4 minutes. Turn over for another 3 minutes and remove to a plate to rest.
Scott says
Made this to your recipe, but cut in half. This was awesome! Served with a side of lemon pepper butter broccoli. VERY flavorful!
Marilyn says
Here in Alaska, we tried this for dinner last night. It was quite delicious and satisfying. Real comfort food and very popular with my dinner partner! I didn’t make the rub mix, but just sprinkled the rub ingredients directly on the pat-dried chicken, and then rubbed it in, which I think saved a lot of time. I deglazed the pan (before adding the mushrooms) with a nice Chardonnay and added a little more butter. I didn’t have much “sauce” at the end of the day, so I added some heavy cream. Next time I think I might add chicken broth and less cream as it was a little too rich. We served this over buttery farfalle with blistered asparagus on the side. Very nice and a keeper recipe. Thanks for sharing.
Ahmet says
Just cooked this dish for dinner. The results were tasty. I used an instant read meat thermometer to verify 165Ëš F. internal temp for the chicken (took it off the heat at 155Ëš and let rest while making cooking the mushroom sauce). I used fresh shiitakes and king trumpets. Thanks for an accurate and delicious recipe.
Courtney Robinson says
I just made this recipe for dinner and it’s a home run! I normally only like to work with white meat, but my husband is a huge fan of dark meat so I said what the heck and went for it. I must say, I am now a fan of dark meat! The garlic mushroom sauce is something I wish I could can and use again and again and again. Thanks for sharing!
Kathleen Wagner says
My chicken pieces were nowhere near fully cooked after ten minutes on each side, even though I sort of butterflied them, if you see what I mean. I like mushrooms caramelized, so I cooked them rather brown and then added the butter and garlic and put the chicken back in the pan on low heat to stew a bit with the garlic and mushrooms while the rice cooks. It smells heavenly!
Daphne says
Just one word: delicious!!
Combined this btw with Turkish rice, which was a great combination.
Thanks for sharing.
Jamie Douglas says
What an easy yet awesome dish. Everyone raved about how good it was when I served this dish and the “haters” are actually thinking I know how to cook now. Thanks 🙂
Karen J says
Thank you for the easy conversion to more or fewer eaters!
This was truly delicious. Thank you ~ I will be back <3