Garlic Brown Sugar Chicken Recipe:
This dish is a crowd pleaser! I’ve yet to meet the person that doesn’t like Garlic Brown Sugar Chicken! And bonus, it’s super easy to make!! I serve it over rice pilaf, but you could also serve it over pasta. It goes great with a Caesar Salad. The contrast of the sweet sauce on the chicken and the salty Caesar dressing is perfect together! PS: I’ll be doing an upcoming show to show you how to make the best homemade Caesar dressing.
Ingredients & Needed Items:
- Skillet, preferably a black cast-iron skillet -You can purchase it here: https://amzn.to/3Z3OhDL
- Casserole Dish -You can purchase it here: https://amzn.to/45Wid72
- 1 & 1/2 cups of buttermilk
- Salt and pepper
- 1 spoonful of pre-minced garlic for marinating/tenderizing the chicken
- 6 boneless, skinless chicken thighs or breasts
- 12 fresh garlic cloves, chopped
- 1/2 cup of brown sugar
- 4 Tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 cup of butter (1 cube of butter)
- Pat the chicken dry. Then using the meat mallet tenderize the chicken
- Put tenderized chicken into a gallon sized Ziplock bag
- Pour the buttermilk, spoonful of pre-minced garlic, & 1 teaspoon of both salt and pepper over the chicken in the Ziplock bag. Mix it around.
- Put the Ziplock bag full of chicken and mixture in the refrigerator for a minimum of 1 hour and up to about 8 hours.
- Take chicken out of the Ziplock bag and pat it dry. Throw away the rest of the buttermilk mixture.
- Drizzle a little olive oil over chicken and sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides.
- Heat a skillet, preferably a black cast-iron skillet to a medium high heat
- Pre-Heat oven to 350 and set the 9×13 casserole dish next to stove
- Put 2 Tbsp of olive oil and 2 Tbsp of butter in the skillet until melted and starting to brown.
- Place chicken into heated, oiled/buttered skillet and brown on each side and then place into the casserole dish after they’re browned
- Once you’re done browning the chicken, reduce the stove to medium low
- Add 2 Tbsps of olive oil to the skillet that you browned the chicken in.
- Sauté chopped garlic in the 2 Tbsp olive oil until translucent, but not browned.
- Add the remaining butter and the brown sugar to the sautéed garlic until the ingredients blend together.
- Pour the brown sugar and sautéed garlic evenly over the top of the chicken
- Bake, uncovered for 15 to 20 minutes or until chicken breasts are cooked through (when the chicken is approximately 160°- 165°)
Thank you for the recipe! Can’t wait to try it!