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Chicken Thighs with Creamy Bacon Mushroom Thyme Sauce - this is one of the best chicken thigh recipes I ever made. Easy, delicious, and perfect for bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs! This is KETO friendly, high-fat, low-carb, gluten free chicken recipe.
Chicken thighs are baked to perfection and then complemented with flavorful creamy mushroom and bacon sauce with lots of fresh thyme. Pure comfort food - chicken dark meat is always delicious in a creamy sauce!
What makes this chicken recipe KETO friendly
- This meal contains high amount of fat from heavy creamy, chicken thighs, and bacon. All these ingredients have high fat, low sugar content.
- Mushrooms are extremely low-carb and a great way to add flavor to keto recipe.
- This recipe contains foods that are high in protein but low in carb, such as chicken thighs.
Fresh thyme is key in this recipe. I used about 5 sprigs of snipped fresh thyme, and also a couple of sprigs more for garnish, on top of chicken thighs and mushrooms:
How to cook bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs:
Start by browning the chicken thighs in a large skillet, then bake them in the oven, for about 20 minutes until completely cooked through.
How to make Creamy Bacon Mushroom Thyme Sauce:
In the mean time, while the chicken thighs bake, start making the sauce by cooking the mushrooms and combining them with the chopped cooked bacon:
Add the cream and snipped fresh thyme to bacon and mushrooms, and make the delicious sauce:
Spoon the sauce over the cooked chicken thighs, and your dinner is ready!
Other KETO friendly chicken recipes
Broccoli Bacon Cheddar Chicken Bake
Bacon Cream Cheese Cheddar Chicken
KETO friendly pork recipes
Bacon and Mushroom Smothered Pork Chops
Low Carb Creamy Pork Chops in Parmesan Sauce
Chicken Thighs with Creamy Bacon Mushroom Thyme Sauce
Ingredients
Chicken thighs
- 4 chicken thighs , skin-on, bone-in
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- salt and pepper
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning dried thyme, oregano
Mushroom sauce
- 6 oz white mushrooms
- 5 slices bacon cooked, chopped
- 1 cup heavy cream
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 5 sprigs fresh thyme
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Season both sides of chicken thighs generously with salt and pepper and Italian herb seasoning mix (usually a combination of dried thyme, oregano and other herbs). Heat vegetable oil on medium-high heat in a large skillet. Add chicken thighs skin-side down. Cook for about 5 minutes, on the skin side until nicely browned.
- Transfer chicken thighs, skin side up, to the foil-lined baking sheet and bake at 350 F for about 20 minutes or until chicken thighs are completely cooked through and no longer pink in the center.
- In the mean time, make the mushrooms sauce:
- Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet on medium heat. Add sliced mushrooms (without salting - to ensure the mushrooms get caramelized) and cook on medium heat for about 3 minutes flipping once.
- Add chopped cooked bacon to the skillet.
- Add heavy creamy, ⅛ teaspoon salt and snipped fresh thyme, bring to boil, stir, immediately reduce to simmer and simmer for about 2 minutes on very low heat for flavors to blend and sauce to reduce a bit. Taste and add more salt if needed.
- When chicken is done baking and chicken thighs are completely cooked through, add cooked chicken thighs to the skillet and spoon the sauce and the mushrooms on top of chicken thighs.
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Nutrition
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What I have been cooking in my kitchen:
3 Years Ago: Chicken Penne Pasta and Mushrooms with Vodka Sauce
4 Years Ago: Creamy Chicken Mushroom Pasta with Basil and Garlic
5 Years Ago: Banana Walnut Bread
Me and my husband love this recipe. We have it every 2-3 weeks. Is there a way to thicken the sauce without messing up the flavor?
LOVELY DISH! So lovely I did it twice...once for Sunday lunch (I added the green part of the spring onion for a bit more colour) with dauphinois potatoes and lots of asparagus, broccoli and trimmed green beans, and then again but tried to he more health conscious so I left out the potatoes and served green leafy veggies instead. Both versions disappeared before you could say "Boo!
My kids and I don't eat mushrooms at all. Bacon with shallots and garlic for us. I love cream sauces and this is simple and delicious with the chicken. We have eaten ours with potatoes as well as pasta! Yummy
So glad you liked the recipe! Potatoes and pasta are always a great side dish for a creamy sauce!
How much dried thyme if you do t have fresh sprigs?
*don't
I would use 1/2 teaspoon of dry thyme in the mushroom sauce.
I made this and it was delicious! Thank you!
Glad you liked it, Andrea! 🙂
I made this tonight and it was fantastic!! I used jalapeño bacon instead of regular bacon and I added onion along with the mushroom. I can't wait to make this again!!!
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it! Jalapeño bacon sounds delicious with the chicken thighs and the cream sauce!
Hi! Made this tonight and it was delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
Happy to hear that! 🙂
Can you use pancetta instead of bacon
Yes, you can! I love pancetta! Also, pancetta cooks much faster than bacon, so keep that in mind.
The sauce was divine! I normally cook my chicken this way already. I couldn't help but eat spoonfuls of the sauce while the chicken cooked. Thank you it was perfect!
Thank you, Emily! Great to hear you liked this recipe! I agree with you that you can just eat the sauce with spoonfuls as you're cooking, so you have to be really careful or the sauce would be pretty much gone and you would be too full for dinner! 🙂
Absolutely delicious. I served this on rice and I'll bet it would be even better on pasta. We always vote on new recipes. Unanimous "do over". Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you, Mari Ann! So glad to hear that this recipe was voted on so favorably by your family!
This was incredibly delicious!! - feels like a cheat meal on a keto diet! Thank you for sharing
Katie, I am so glad you liked it!
Julia, I want to make 14 pieces of chicken thighs. Can I cook all of them in the oven at once? Also for how long?
Yes, you can cook all chicken thighs on a very large baking sheet or on several baking sheets all at the same time (on the same rack) if your oven is large enough. Make sure not to overcrowd the baking sheet with chicken thighs, or they won't brown well. If your oven is large enough, cook all chicken thighs on the same rack for the same amount of time. If your oven is small, do it in batches.
This recipe was so delicious! I added leftover rotisserie chicken, frozen peas, lemon juice, and chili flakes for a little spice
Grace, those are great tips, thank you!
My son is on a Modified Atkins Diet for epilepsy so he needs a lot of far in his diet and I have found it to be hard to find recipes that he likes. We all loved this one! I was wondering what the nutritional info is? Fat, carbs and protein. Thanks for your help!
Regarding the chicken mushroom bacon creams entree.... what is in the cast iron skillet just before you add the chicken? It's orange in color laying on the right side of the skillet. Kinda oblong shaped.....