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!
Chicken Thighs with Creamy Bacon Mushroom Thyme Sauce
One of the best recipes to cook chicken thighs is to smother them in a creamy bacon mushroom and thyme sauce. So easy and yummy! KETO friendly, high-fat, low-carb, gluten free chicken recipe.
PREP TIME 10minutes mins
COOK TIME 30minutes mins
TOTAL TIME 40minutes mins
COURSE Main Course
CUISINE American
SERVINGS 4 servings
CALORIES PER SERVING 609 kcal
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
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