Skillet Creamy Garlic Chicken with Broccoli
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Our Creamy Garlic Chicken with Broccoli recipe is a household favorite for everyone in the family. This is the perfect one-pot chicken recipe with a homemade creamy garlic sauce when you’re in need of something delicious, satisfying and easy for a weeknight dinner. Add your choice of pasta or rice to soak up all the delicious creamy garlic sauce.
Easy Creamy Garlic Chicken Recipe with Broccoli
This chicken recipe is truly simple and can cooked in one pot. It takes just a few ingredients to get dinner for the family because it’s loaded with protein and vegetables. The healthy broccoli adds a wonderful crunch and vegetable to this garlic chicken. Other vegetable options you can add to this chicken recipe is spinach, potatoes, squash and zucchini. The vegetable possibilities are endless and so are the starches that you can serve with the creamy garlic sauce. Rice and pasta are always the go-to starches, but you can also try quinoa, couscous and wild rice. Crusty bread is also another great option to dip into the sauce and soak it all up.
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Tips on Cooking the Broccoli
You can make the vegetables as soft or crunchy as you like. If you want the vegetables softer with this creamy garlic chicken, add it when you add the chicken back into the pot. If you want more al-dente vegetables, then add it in later and time it so that it cooks to your preferred texture after the chicken is finished. Hope you enjoy this creamy garlic sauce. It’s divine!
How to Make Creamy Garlic Sauce
This is the creamy garlic sauce that can be used for so many dishes outside of this skillet chicken with broccoli. Our recipe for creamy garlic sauce is below and it really only takes a few ingredients to have a pot of sauce that is perfect for pasta, rice and other proteins. Instead of using fresh garlic, you can use garlic powder or granulated garlic for an extra concentrated flavor of garlic. Hope you enjoy this creamy garlic chicken for your family!
How to Serve This Creamy Garlic Chicken
- with white or brown rice
- any type of pasta that you like
- on a bed of lettuce for a healthy salad
- quinoa
- couscous
- make it into a sandwich!
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This recipe was originally published in 2016 and re-published with updated photos. Enjoy our Slow Cooker Miracle creamy garlic chicken recipe, and our microwave cheesy broccoli.
Skillet Creamy Garlic Chicken w/ Broccoli
Ingredients
- 2 pounds (907 g) boneless chicken breasts
- kosher salt , to taste
- fresh cracked black pepper , to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) paprika
- 4 tablespoons (60 g) butter, divided
- 4-5 cloves (4-5 cloves) garlic , minced
- 10.5 ounces (298 g) (1 can) Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup , or more if needed
- 1 cup (240 ml) water
- 2 to 3 cups (480-710 ml) chopped broccoli
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) chopped fresh parsley
- lemon wedges , optional
Serve with rice or pasta
Instructions
- Season chicken with salt, pepper and paprika. Set aside.
- Heat large pan on medium-high heat. Melt half the butter (2 tablespoons). Add the chicken and cook for 5 minutes on each side or until the chicken is browned. Remove chicken from pan, cover and keep warm.
- In same pan melt remaining 2 tablespoons of butter, add the garlic and cook until garlic is lightly brown and fragrant. Whisk in the condensed cream of chicken soup and water. Cook until the mixture is hot and bubbly, then turn heat down to low.
- Add chicken and broccoli back into the pan cover the pan with a lid and cook for about another 10 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. If you want more firm or al-dente broccoli, add the broccoli after the chicken is almost cooked so that the broccoli is more crunchy.
- Serve with rice or pasta and wedges of lemon. Garnish with chopped parsley.
97 Comments on “Skillet Creamy Garlic Chicken with Broccoli”
This was great and easy chicken with gravy, we did small potatoes instead of rice. Everyone gobbled it up. I forgot the lemon which I will add next time.
thanks Rebecca! So happy that everyone gobbled it up.
Oh my. Don’t leave out that lemon!!! I let the wedges sit in the remaining sauce while we sat around the dinner table and oh, what flavor! I smashed the wedges to get the juice out, stirred it around and threw in the leftover rice. I gaze at it longingly every time I open the fridge! I’m using up leftovers in order so it is waiting it’s turn to jump in my mouth. I used thighs and for the first time ever my chicken actually browned so nicely. Picture worthy. One thing I learned: if using bone-in thighs,
cook a little longer as mine could have used it. Just awesome!!! Thanks for a superb recipe. I’m going to use it for company!
PS. I used much more garlic.Maybe 9 large cloves,
I doubled the sauce as I had slightly more broccoli than 4 cups. I cut up the lemon into eighths and put them into the sauce as it simmered. At the end I pressed the lemons with the back of a spoon and the juice flowed into the sauce. There was enough sauce for the chicken and brown rice I made. It is so delicious!
This dish was easy and delicious. I chose to cut the chicken breast into bite size pieces. I browned the chicken and garlic in olive oil instead of butter for a healthier entree with no cholesterol. I also added more seasoning to the cream of chicken mixture to give it additional flavor. I served over white rice with a croissant. It made a tasty meal.
Great recipe! We added 1/2 teaspoon of onion powder to season the chicken and then added 1/2 teaspoon of white pepper to the milk/cream of chicken mixture – that really added some flavor!
I really can’t get over how good this chicken recipe is. I love making this for my family.
Can I use frozen broccoli instead of raw, and still cook it the same as the original directions?
Hi Shannon, yes you can use frozen broccoli. But the cooking time will be much faster with frozen broccoli so make sure the chicken is cooked all the way through.
This recipe was REALLY good. I’ll definitely make it again
Family loved it. I used chicken thighs,2 cans of cream of chicken soup, and 2 cans of milk. Requires a bit longer to cook. It was delicious! Thank you!
So happy your family loved it. Thanks for sharing what you used and how much. Thanks Robin!
I took someone else’s advice and add half/half instead of water and also added cheese at the end. I liked it!
Just made this for dinner. Super yummy and easy! I used cream of mushroom instead of cream of chicken because I love the flavor of it. 10/10 will make again.
Quick and easy delicious
I really loved how quick and easy this recipe was! Everything came out perfectly. The flavor was amazing… the chicken wasn’t dry… everyone absolutely loved it!