Skillet Chicken Breasts in Sour Cream Sauce
A tasty, quick dish made from everyday ingredients! These chicken breasts, simmered in a sour cream sauce right in the skillet, are nice enough for a holiday table — especially if you pair them with a fancier side dish.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make chicken in a sour cream sauce? Measure out your ingredients. You can use turkey breast instead of chicken, or any other meat fillet you like.
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Step 2:
Trim the chicken, rinse it, pat it dry, and cut it into small pieces.
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Step 3:
Peel the garlic and slice it thin. Heat the oil in a skillet and fry the garlic for 2–3 minutes. Fish the garlic out and discard it — we only want the garlic-infused oil. At this point you could also brown some onion cut into half-moons; I'm not a fan, so I leave it out.
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Step 4:
Add the chicken to the same skillet and fry until golden, stirring with a spatula. Keep the heat at medium or a little lower.
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Step 5:
Add the sour cream, salt, and pepper to the chicken. Stir. Cover with a lid. Simmer over low heat, covered, for about 15 minutes. If it's sizzling hard, turn the heat down a touch.
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Step 6:
Toward the end of cooking, you can add a few sprigs of fresh rosemary to the chicken in sour cream sauce. Serve the dish hot, on its own or with any side. Mine was boiled pasta.
- For secrets, hacks, and all the most useful tips, read the article: "Cream and Sour Cream in Sauces: How to Keep Them from Curdling."
- You can swap the chicken for turkey or any other meat you like. Just keep in mind that the cooking time and calorie count will change.
- Any oil is only good up to a certain temperature — its smoke point, past which it starts to burn and forms harmful compounds, including carcinogens. For how to gauge frying temperature and choose the best oil for the job (and which ones to skip entirely), read more here.
- Important! The wrong pan can ruin even the best recipe. For how to choose the perfect pan for different dishes, read more here.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Sour cream of 30% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Sunflower oil - 898 kcal/100g
- Refined sunflower oil - 899 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast - 113 kcal/100g
