Recipe of Award-winning Lemon Butter Chicken

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lemon butter chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lemon Butter Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Lemon Butter Chicken is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon butter chicken using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Butter Chicken:

1. Get 8 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
2. Make ready 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
3. Make ready to taste Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
4. Get 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
5. Get 3 cloves garlic, minced
6. Make ready 1 cup chicken broth
7. Make ready 1/2 cup heavy cream
8. Get 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan
9. Get Juice of 1 lemon
10. Prepare 1 teaspoon dried thyme
11. Make ready 2 cups baby spinach, chopped

Instructions to make Lemon Butter Chicken:

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Season chicken thighs with paprika, salt and pepper, to taste.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Return chicken to the skillet.
7. Place skillet into the oven and roast until completely cooked through, reaching an internal temperature of 165 degrees F, about 25-30 minutes.
8. Serve immediately.
9. Plated dish served with orzo pasta.

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