Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken – Quick, easy and delicious pan-seared chicken with an amazingly flavorful sun dried tomatoes sauce! It’s a 30-minute, one pan meal that you can’t resist!
Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken with a robust flavor, and a pleasant underlying tang, this is one recipe that makes for incredibly delicious comfort food.
This recipe was originally published on July 13, 2014, and updated with new photos and content on June 28, 2017.
Happy day, pal! Hope you’re having a wonderful summer-week!
For me, if it involves outdoor dining with my beautiful best friends and a couple of wine glasses, it means I had a fantastic week/weekend!
Also? My kids spent the night at my mom’s! AND! I got to sleep in!! And and! I ate ice cream for breakfast!
Don’t be jelly… it only happens like thrice a year. But I’ll take it!
Soooo. Look at that. My chicken-craze continues…
Are you totally sick and tired of seeing chicken-posts?? #sorrynotsorry. No, really, I’m not even a little bit sorry because this Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce Chicken is about to become the best thing you’ve ever had!
Weeeeell, that’s until the next time that I post a recipe and then THAT ONE will be the best thing you’ve ever had.
We gotta talk about this creamy sun-dried tomato sauce chicken. Omg. I didn’t really know where I was going with this or what was going to unfold, but all I knew at that first-bite-moment was that I need to write a cookbook and call it “50 Shades of Chicken”. 😉
It all started on a one unassuming, sunny, summery afternoon… it was last week.
I went to clean the pantry and much to my surprise, I found not one but TWO jars of sun dried tomatoes. I was surprised because we don’t buy them that often, but when we do, I use them up as soon as possible. They’re so good! Not sure how I let these slide by…
I should also tell you that during my pantry clean-up, I found a barbie doll in there and a furry toy that totally scared the bejesus out of me because I thought it was a rat. EWWWW!!!
SO THEN, right after my “ew-that’s-gross-feeling” went away, it was clear. I knew what I had to do. Nothing was going to change my mind.
It was time to take out the silver pan and cook-up some chicken breasts.
So some breasts were “seared”, then some sauce was made, and scoops of sun dried tomatoes brought the whole thing together. Theeeee End.
ENJOY!
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WATCH HOW TO MAKE CREAMY SUN-DRIED TOMATO SAUCE CHICKEN
Quick, easy and delicious pan-seared chicken with an amazingly flavorful sun dried tomatoes sauce! It's a 30-minute, one pan meal that you can't resist!
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 (16 ounces) chicken breasts
- salt and fresh ground pepper , to taste
- 1 large yellow onion , diced
- 3 to 4 garlic cloves , minced
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 cup chicken broth or vegetable broth
- 1/3 cup sun dried tomatoes in oil
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In a large nonstick skillet heat olive oil over medium-high heat.
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Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
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Add chicken breasts to hot oil and cook 4 minutes; flip and continue to cook for 4 minutes or until browned on both sides.
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Remove chicken from skillet; set aside.
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Add onions, garlic and thyme leaves to skillet; cook for 3 minutes, stirring frequently.
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Stir in flour; mix until combined.
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Add broth and sun dried tomatoes.
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Return chicken to skillet; bring mixture to a boil.
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Turn heat down to a simmer; cover the skillet and continue to cook for 15 to 18 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through.
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Remove from heat.
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Serve.
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I made it and the sauce never turned red or stayed white. What did I do wrong. I followed the video step but step
I just made this tonight and it was excellent! The chicken was tender and the flavor was incredible! I only had dried thyme on hand and was reluctant to make it without fresh thyme so as not to ruin the meal but it was still delicious. My husband loved it, as well, and so did my daughter. For our picky-eater sons, I fooled them and just served it without any of the onions or tomatoes over the top and they, too, said it was so good.
I just cooked this dish for dinner and I was a great hit with the family.
Sounded fabulous, but it was very bitter and much too rustic tasting. Thank you for posting, and I’m sure that some who have a more hardy palate will enjoy, just no one in my family.
This was excellent!! I did add one can of artichoke hearts that I roughly chopped. It was so delicious!! Will definitely make again!!
So, what makes for the “creamy’ part? It seems the sauce is thickened with flour, but it doesn’t say that. Is this the ‘creamy’ part?
I’m gonna add sour cream at the end – just because everything’s better with sour cream (or bacon)
Also could use some heat; I’m using red pepper flakes (hot paprika would also be nice)
This looks absolutely delicious! I love sun dried tomatoes. I will definitely be trying this soon.
PS I really like that book title idea! 😉
Hi, I was wondering if you had the smartpoints or the nutritional information for this recipe? It looks delicious by the way!
Hi! The nutrition facts were there, but they somehow disappeared! So sorry about that and thank you for letting me know! 🙂 I’ve updated the recipe to include all the nutrition facts.
Did you use whole chicken breast or halves?
love new chicken recipes, and this is certainly new to me! So thank you, love any chicken that’s not dry!
This was OUTSTANDING!!! Loved the Sun dried tomatoes with this!
I almost have no words to describe how delicious this recipe is, and that is really something for me as I am a wordy person in general. I really am not the biggest fan of sun dried tomatoes but I usually have some on hand that are left over from another recipe and the question is, how do I use these up? Now I know the answer to that question. This chicken was so far beyond amazing — I lost track of how many times my husband said it was “really, REALLY good” during dinner last night. He was still talking about it this morning! That rarely happens. So, thank you Katerina for sharing this wonderful recipe. I only wish i had found your blog sooner. Best to you and yours this holiday season.
Looks Yummy and obviously it should taste too :)….i usually prefer adding tomatoes to chicken for tangy taste ..next time i will be surely trying with sun dried tomatoes.
Could I make it earlier in the day and then just pop it in the oven at a time?
Hi Gale! This isn’t prepared in the oven, and I never have prepared it in the oven, so I can’t say if it will even work. Do you mean to prepare the entire dish earlier in the day and then just reheat it in the oven? The sauce will be thick once it’s cooled down, but the heat will help to make it runny again. I hope this helps! Have a great day!!
Got my husband to make this for dinner, and wow what a winner! (Winner, winner, Chicken Dinner). Actually I wanted to make it; I’m not an accomplished cook, but I thought I could manage this. But he beat me to it. So I ate all the leftovers 🙂 Thanks for the recipe, it’s going on high rotation in our kitchen! Julie
OH, I am so glad you enjoyed it!! I LOVE that meal sooo much! 🙂 Thanks for coming by and letting me know!! xo
Am wondering about your bag of sun dried tomatoes. I have 2 jars in my pantry and they’re packed in oil. Will this work?
Hi Ella! Yes, that would work, but drain the oil and pat the tomatoes with paper towel. It won’t work if there’s too much liquid. Hope this helps!
I have no oven, so this recipe was exactly what I needed to get my chicken fix. Sadly, I didn’t have any dried tomatoes, so I had to use fresh ones. The end result, though, was excellent. Thanks for sharing this awesome idea!
I’m making this for Sunday Supper this weekend and I can’t wait. It looks amazing.
Thank you, Aimee!! Let me know how it goes!
Tried it today. Was so simple and delicious!
That is great!! SO happy to know that you enjoyed it! Thank you!
That looks amazing! I’d love this dish. Not sure I can say the same for my kids. I’m still waiting for the day that they will willingly eat tomatoes. I the meantime I get to eat this and the leftovers.
Scrumptious!
Don’t mean to sound stupid but are these boneless skinless breasts or bone-in?
Thank you,
Don
Hi Don!! Not stupid, at all! Good question, in fact. These are boneless chicken breasts.
Thank you Katerina!
My pleasure! Hope you have a chance to try the dish. It’s AAAmazing! 😀
This looks amazing – I can definitely see adding this to our rotation!
Now this is a meal for a king…ahem! Queen! LOL! Gorgeous pictures…want to lick my screen right now haha
This dish looks amazing, Kate! Glad you got the urge to clean your pantry so you could make this lovely dish. Pinned.
Have a great week!
I love the flavours in your recipe! I can see it at the table at a dinner party. Thanks for sharing.
This looks so yummy! We tried your Chicken Vegetable Rice skillet last night and loved it, now I need to make this too!
I’ll never get sick of your chicken posts! This looks scrumptious!!
Love that you pan-seared the chicken, and with those tomatoes? Perfection. YUMMY!!
What a killer dish, I love the sun dried tomatoes!
This dish seems quite elegant. I’d replace some of the stock with white wine and serve this with a tasty rice dish to sop up the resulting juice. Great way to use up pantry ingredients … something I’ve been doing for the last year. And it’s not getting much emptier.
Wow, you sure know how to clean out a pantry. This is amazing.
Yum! This looks delish. I’ll have to put this on my meal list.
You get THIS from just cleaning the pantry? Genius!! Love sun dried tomatoes and easy chicken recipes! Yummers!
Can I just tell you that your writing makes me smile every time! You write better in English than most native speakers. Your cooking though is definitely not English! You have to come from Eastern Europe to cook like this! Lovely!! 🙂
Oh heavens, lady, clean your pantry out more often, ok? If this is the kind of result we’ll get from you doing that, I’m in. It looks ah-mazing.