Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, lemon butter chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon butter chicken using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Butter Chicken:
- Get 8 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
- Make ready 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- Take to taste Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- Prepare 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Make ready 1 cup chicken broth
- Take 1/2 cup heavy cream
- Make ready 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan
- Take Juice of 1 lemon
- Get 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- Prepare 2 cups baby spinach, chopped
Instructions to make Lemon Butter Chicken:
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Season chicken thighs with paprika, salt and pepper, to taste.
- Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large oven-proof skillet over medium high heat. Add chicken, skin-side down, and sear both sides until golden brown, about 2-3 minutes per side; drain excess fat and set aside.
- Melt remaining tablespoon butter in the skillet. Add garlic, and cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 1-2 minutes. Stir in chicken broth, heavy cream, Parmesan, lemon juice and thyme.
- Bring to a boil; reduce heat, stir in spinach, and simmer until the spinach has wilted and the sauce has slightly thickened, about 3-5 minutes.
- Return chicken to the skillet.
- Place skillet into the oven and roast until completely cooked through, reaching an internal temperature of 165 degrees F, about 25-30 minutes.
- Serve immediately.
- Plated dish served with orzo pasta.
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