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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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Hello, can this recipe be used to make a pasta dish?
Made this for dinner tonight added garlic to bacon . Was so good, absolutely delicious
Can I print the recipe with the picture? When I click on PRINT it shows up without the picture...I love to have the pics in my collection!
Made this with chicken breasts since I didn't have thighs. Still turned out great. Wife and son ate em up!
Thank you! Good to know that the recipe worked with chicken breasts, too!
OMG, I just made this and I have to say it is probably one of the best dishes I've ever made I did make a couple of changes however I did fry my mushrooms in a little bit of the Bacon Fat I did add some shallots I did add a little bit of Sherry and Italian seasoning and let it reduce before I added the cream just to kick it up a notch and I did double the sauce. In order to keep the skin on the chicken crispy I plated the sauce first, them placed the chicken on top. This is not your diet food, it's a special occasion recipe, I am in heaven! What are you waiting for, go try this dish!!!
Jessica, thank you for such a nice comment! So glad you liked this chicken! Shallots are a great addition, as well as a bit of Sherry.
CAN YOU TELL ME THE CARB COUNT PER SERVING?
SO GOOD! thank you for sharing this recipe! no fresh thyme tho so i used dried. thanks again. this will be going in my handwritten cookbook for normal rotation
Thank you, Brooke! 🙂
This recipe is amazing. Delicious and so quick and easy to make. Thank you. I added a teaspoon of Smoked Chilli Pesto to my sauce, really good.
Thank you, Mandy! Glad you liked it! Smoked Chili Pesto sounds delicious!
Do you think you could cook this in the slow cooker at all? X
Never tried it in a slow cooker.
4 chicken thighs doesn't seem like 4 servings! One thigh a person?
Yes, with a side dish and a salad. Or, you can eat 2 chicken thighs if you like, too.
We cooked this last night. It is a winner!!
Thank you!!! So happy to hear that!!
Carb count? Nutritional info??
How many carbs are in this recipe
Where can I find the nutrition information? Specifically carb count....
Made this tonight and it was delish!!
Made this with bone in pork chops ... cooked the thin chops completely on the stove. We all loved this recipe!!! Very good blend of flavors. Yummy - you can't go wrong with this one. Thanks!
What is the nutritional calorie intake?