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:
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:
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
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.