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.
Nutrition
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This sounds so good. I need to try.
Thank you, Cathy! I hope you enjoy it!
Must give this a try! We LOVE the velvet pork chops, so I know this will be a hit as well!
Let me know what you think once you get the chance to try it Teresa, I think you will love it!
Wow, I can’t wait to try this. We just started low carbing/lazy keto and I’m so excited my favorite food blogger/author has got the recipes!! Thank you Christy!
I hope you love it as much as we do April!! Let me know what you think and I appreciate the kind words!!
I may try this tonight! Thanks.
Just curious as to why you stopped eating pork.
Hey Linda! It’s a faith issue for us. Hope you enjoy the Velvet Chicken! That sauce is lick the pan good 🙂
This is for supper tonight! Thank you.
Thank you so much, Heather! I hope y’all enjoy it!
This sounds delicious and I must try it soon! But… I had to read your sentence “since we stopped eating pork” a couple times Until it sunk in. No. Bacon . That would be one hard decision for me! Thank goodness for chicken right?
~Kristy
Lol, bacon is the first thing people go to and I do understand. As much as we used to love it, this has still been the easiest thing we ever did. I hope you have a great afternoon, Kristy! It’s so beautiful in Alabama, I’m sending sunshine to the rest of the world!
I’ve made your velvet chops for years, it’s one of my favorite dishes. Can’t wait to try this version, and I’m Keto too, so it’s perfect. Hugs and thanks!
Hugs back at ya Robin!!
Could you use half & half instead of the cream? If so, I can make this meal tonight because I have a carton of half & half in the refrigerator now.
You sure can. It won’t be “as” rich but it will still be wonderful. I’ve subbed half and half before myself. 🙂