One skillet sour cream & onion chicken
Minimal dishes, pretty minimal work, and great flavor
No one wants to cook something elaborate on a Tuesday night. The turnaround from getting off work at 5pm to needing to start on dinner is just entirely too short. This meal is pretty minimal effort and has a unique enough taste to provide something different for the second worst day of the week. The only sour cream and onion dish I have ever had is the pringles, so this was a new one for me and I thought it came out well!
Ingredients:
1 lb of chicken (I used thighs)
1.5 cups of thinly sliced onion
2 cloves of garlic
.25 cups of dry white wine (recipe uses dry sherry but I was too cheap to buy that)
.5 cups of sour cream
.25 cups of chicken broth
Olive oil to grease the skillet
Green onion for garnish
Seasoning: Garlic salt and pepper
Directions:
Season your chicken with garlic salt and pepper. Grease the skillet with some olive oil and cook your chicken over medium heat until it starts to turn brown. You want it mostly cooked but not quite all the way there. It should take about 5-6 minutes. Once that’s done, remove the chicken and put it on a plate nearby.
Add a little more olive oil, then throw in your onions. Season with salt and pepper and cook until the onions become soft and brown (roughly 4-5 minutes). Add your minced garlic.
Add the white wine and stir for about a minute. In a separate bowl, whisk together the chicken broth and sour cream. Add that slightly gross looking mixture to the skillet and cook until the specks of sour cream blend into the mixture.
Add your chicken back to the skillet, and finish cooking it all the way through. Baste the chicken with your sauce as it finishes cooking.
Garnish with green onion. (Or basil)
Annoyance Rating (1-10): 3
I did not mince my own garlic so that skews this a little bit, but that was also not part of the original recipe, so I think it’s fine. I did have to slice half an onion but that’s way easier than dicing and it was my only required veggie chopping. I also only used a skillet and a bowl so very few dishes had to be cleaned.
Erica’s Review:
“This was yummy! Not my favorite thing Jake has made but it was still really good. The sauce was the star of this dish for sure and made it easier to tolerate all the onions.”
Recipe I ripped off:
https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/8002890/skillet-sour-cream-onion-chicken/