Creamy Lemon Chicken with Garlic

Our Creamy Lemon Chicken is a low carb, decadent dish that cooks in just one skillet in about 20 minutes! Our lemon sauce for chicken is hard to resist and adds so much flavor!

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Lately, I’ve just been obsessed with lemon.

I’ve even started putting lemon in my water, which seems like a normal thing that people to do, but it’s completely new for me. I had never been a lemon wedge kind of girl before the last couple of weeks.

On a hot day, it tastes refreshing and zippy. On a cold day, it reminds me of the summer sun.

This Creamy Lemon Chicken is definitely an all year round dish in my house. Cooking chicken in a lemon sauce is so simple, but gosh, it adds big flavor.

I love dinners like this – it’s naturally low carb, there are no funky ingredients or weird steps to cut out carbs, and pretty much everyone I’ve ever served this to has raved about it!

Let’s do this!

How To Make Lemon Garlic Chicken:

Season the chicken with salt and pepper and then cook it in a hot skillet with a bit of oil. Remove the chicken to a plate and set aside.

Deglaze the pan by adding in a splash of chicken broth and scraping up the browned bits. Add the remaining broth, lemon juice, and garlic and bring to a boil and reduce by half.

Add the cream and butter to make the sauce nice and creamy.

Return the chicken to the pan and let it simmer for a minute or two and then serve.

🍋Lemon Sauce For Chicken:

Our lemon sauce is so simple and only takes a few ingredients. It can be drizzled over any chicken you like, like our crispy baked chicken thighs.

Try making this sauce and serve it over grilled or roasted chicken next time. It adds so much fresh, zippy flavor.

Make this lemon sauce for chicken exactly as directed here, starting with step 4 in the recipe. No need to deglaze the pan, since you’ll be starting with a clean pan.

❓Recipe FAQs:

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