Velvet Chicken is a wonderful low carb recipe, well suited for Low carb and Keto. The rich velvet cream sauce will have you tempted to lick your plate!
Meet a low carb sauce for your Chicken
The velvet sauce in Velvet Chicken is made by reducing chicken broth in a pan that you’ve sauteed meat in, then thickening it with a wonderful heavy cream. I first developed this sauce a few years back for pork chops but since we’ve quit eating pork I adapted it to chicken and was thrilled to find it works just as well.
Let’s get started 🙂
To make this Velvet Chicken you’ll need these ingredients:
- 2-4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
- Chicken broth
- Heavy cream
- Butter
- Salt and pepper
- Fresh basil and grape tomatoes for garnish – if you like.
How to Make Velvet Chicken
- Melt butter in large skillet over medium high heat. Add chicken and salt and pepper tops of them. Cook until browned, then flip and salt and pepper again. Continue cooking until opposite side is brown, about 2 minutes each side (rough estimate).
- Pour in chicken broth, reduce heat to medium, and cook until broth is mostly evaporated, about ten minutes.
- Once broth has cooked down, remove chicken from pan and turn off heat but leave pan on the stove eye/burner. Have a wooden spoon handy and pour the cream into pan. Immediately start stirring and continue until the pan remnants are fully blended in with the cream and cream is warm and thick, just a few minutes.
Serve chicken with delicious cream sauce spooned over them.
Garnish with sliced grape tomatoes and fresh basil.
Velvet Chicken is so good! I hope you get to try it soon. It is a satisfying dish and a delicious way to liven up chicken!
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Ingredients
- 4 boneless chicken breast halves
- Salt & Pepper to taste
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup chicken broth
- ½ cup cream
- To garnish: fresh basil and grape or cherry tomatoes
Instructions
- Melt butter in large skillet over medium high heat. Add chicken and salt and pepper tops of them. Cook until browned, then flip and salt and pepper again. Continue cooking until opposite side is brown.
- Pour in chicken broth, reduce heat to medium, and cook until broth is mostly evaporated, about ten minutes.
- Once broth has cooked down, remove chicken from pan and turn off heat but leave pan on the stove eye. Have a wooden spoon handy and pour the cream into pan. Immediately start stirring and continue until the pan remnants are fully blended in with the cream and cream is warm and thick, just a few minutes.
- Serve chicken with delicious cream sauce spooned over them. Garnish with sliced grape tomatoes and fresh basil.
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You may also like these chicken recipes:
Low Carb Sheet Pan Chicken Teriyaki
Low Carb Lasagna Stuffed Chicken
I can’t find the symbol for the free recipe box.
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Hi, Christy! Are you still doing low-carb? I know you had great results. I’m thinking of going that route. 43 yrs old and weight is totally stuck. I’d love to lose about 50 pounds. You are such a blessing! I have your pulled lol with clear bbq sauce in my crock pot right now!
I’m working out what I’m going to do, I’m kind of in the in between. I had some serious kidney stone issues and so had to leave low carb for a while and now I’m in the process of getting back in the saddle but I’m not entirely sure which horse that saddle will be on ;). Most likely I will do low carb but have some of the good carbs like oatmeal, sweet potatoes, etc.
Thanks, Christy! Hope all goes well!
Sounds so good I’m sure gonna try this very soon! I’m new to this low carb but so far everything I’ve tried has been delish!! ❤️ I’m so glad I found Southern Plate….
I am glad you found it too Karen!! So glad you are enjoying the recipes!!
Do you have the nutritional values for this recipe! Gotta try this one!
I don’t Carol but it is easy to get. Google nutritional values and insert the ingredients and it will give you all that you need. There are lots of sites that offer that service for free!
This has become one of our “go-to” recipes. Since we are empty nesters we cut back on the amount of chicken and keep everything else the same. We then cook pasta, cut the chicken into pieces, add it to pasta along with the extra gravy to make a one dish meal.
Great idea Larry!!! I am so glad you like the recipe and appreciate you sharing your tip with us!!!
I am in love already, this looks so good! I am a fan of anything in a cream sauce, so I am putting this on my menu.
I hope you like it when you get a chance to try it!!
What a beautiful presentation…an offering very suitable for company
Can I use skin on chicken thighs instead of chicken breasts? Thank you very much,
Robbyn