Chicken with Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Sauce – an 80’s throwback! I like to pack in a lot of sun dried tomato flavour here by using the oil from the jar to cook the chicken. Why throw away free flavour??
Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Sauce for Chicken
Sun dried tomatoes don’t feature as much anymore as they should. Back in the 80’s they were ALL THE RAGE!
But they never went out of fashion in my world. Throw a small amount into almost any meal and you get a wonderful burst of extra flavour. I use them to make a super quick 12 Minutes Sun Dried Tomato Couscous Salad, in creamy chicken pasta, I stuff ’em inside chicken breast and Chicken Meatloaf and I use then for pasta salads.
The added bonus is the oil that the sun dried tomatoes are marinated in. Free flavour! Using the oil from the jar to cook the chicken really drives home the sun dried tomato flavour in the overall dish.
I never toss out the oil that olives and other antipasto things come in. I recycle them – either cook with it, or I use it to marinate cubes of feta or char grilled vegetables. Have to you ever tried that? Super thrifty – and extra flavour!
Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Sauce ingredients
Here’s what you need for the creamy sun dried tomato sauce. I’ve used chicken thighs here, but it’s just as great made with chicken breast.
Quick dinner – 15 Minutes!
If you have a skillet large enough to cook all the chicken in one batch, then you’ll get this on the table in around 15 minutes. Chicken thighs should take around 6 -7 minutes to cook, and the creamy sun dried tomato sauce takes about 5 minutes.
I usually prep the sauce ingredients which the chicken is browning, so there’s really not much extra prep time.
Serve this with mashed potato OR, to make this a sensational low carb meal, with Creamy Mashed Cauliflower. It’s also great with pasta, or even just some crusty bread, dinner rolls or even focaccia to mop up the sauce! – Nagi x
Watch how to make it
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Chicken with Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Sauce
Ingredients
- 750g / 1.5lb chicken thighs OR chicken breast , skinless and boneless
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Black pepper
- 1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes , strips, drained of oil (Note 1)
- 2 tbsp oil from sun dried tomatoes jar (Note 1)
- 2 garlic cloves , minced
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) white wine (sub chicken broth)
- 3/4 cup (185 ml) chicken broth/stock , low sodium
- 3/4 cup (185 ml) thickened / heavy cream
- 1/3 cup (30g) parmesan, very finely shredded (Note 2)
- 2 tsp Dijon mustard (Note 3)
- 1 cup basil leaves , packed (optional)
Instructions
- Breast: Cut chicken in half horiztonally to form 2 thin steaks.
- Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Heat oil from sun dried tomat jar in a large skillet over high heat.
- Add the chicken and cook until golden brown on both sides – 6 minutes total for thigh or 4 minutes for breast. Remove onto a plate, keep warm.
- Add the garlic and cook for 15 seconds until light golden.
- Add wine. Bring to simmer and scrape the bottom of the skillet to mix all the brown bits into the wine.
- Let the wine simmer for 1 minute or so until the smell of alcohol is gone which means it has evaporated.
- Mix in mustard, then add the chicken broth, cream, parmesan and sun dried tomatoes.
- Bring to simmer, then reduce heat to medium and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes until thickened. Stir regularly to dissolve parmesan cheese.
- Taste sauce and add more salt and pepper if needed.
- Stir through basil leaves, then return chicken into pan. Spoon sauce over and simmer 1 minute.
- Serve immediately! Great served over mashed potato, Creamy Mashed Cauliflower or pasta. Or serve with bread on the side to mop up sauce!
Recipe Notes:
Nutrition Information:
Originally published July 2015, updated July 2019 with new photos, new video, new process photos, new writing. And the recipe has been spruced up a wee bit too!
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Hi Nagi! I was on a food site today (MSN Food & Drink) and clicked on “Fast and easy chicken dishes” and there you were with this dish! It is truly one of the best chicken recipes I have ever made! 🙂
NO WAY!! Oooh, what an honour! I must go have a look!
Hi Nagi! Made this tonight – OMG!! My husband LOVED it! And he is not a big fan of breast meat Had it with fresh corn, green beans and new potatoes from the garden. Thank you so much once again! 🙂
DOROTHY!! I’m so SO honoured that you tried this and even more so that your husband loved it! Gosh I am so jealous of your life. The fresh veggies from your garden would have beaten the chicken hands down any day. The flavour of homegrown veggies….just INCREDIBLE! N x
Thank You,
I made this last night for 7 & it turned out beautifully delicious. Nice & quick also. This will be a favorite go to dish for sure as I would always have these ingredients.
Thanks again.
I’m so glad you loved it!! It is crazy easy, isn’t it? Thank you so much for coming back to let me know you loved it!! 🙂
So happy to have just discovered your blog! This recipe looks delicious, I’m looking forward to browsing your other recipes 🙂
Thanks! Just popping over to have a look at yours! 🙂
I’ve been meaning to make sun dried tomatoes all summer, and keep forgetting about them! Thanks for the reminder. P.S.- I think they are making a comeback!
Shall we start a Sun Dried Tomato Movement? 😉
Yes!! I’m in.
Oooh, so delicious!I love sun dried tomatoes, great idea to revive them! 🙂
Bring out the flares!!!
Omg.. Nagi.. just look at that.. it’s breathtaking.. I wouldn’t be eating that if I can make half as good as you have done and set it up.. I would drool for a good hour or two in front of it before hunger takes over finally to relish… loving it
Another stunner, dear Nagi! Especially love the tip to use the oil from ‘things in oil’ 🙂
That is so true, sundried tomatoes just aren’t the really popular kid there were a couple of decades ago. Even though, they are a staple in my cupboard. This looks like such a satisfying dish for winter Nagi.
She’s Bringing Sun Dried Tomatoes back , yes I am with you !! I just wanna take a swim in that sauce ( I hope you guys don’t think I’m weird 😛 )
Looks delicious!
Thanks Sabrina! 🙂
Yay for 80s throwback and double yay for sundried tomatoes! I LUV sundried tomatoes, I’m always trying to sneak then in dishes or dips, because the Hubs hates them (he’s nuts). I am loooooving your creamy dreamy sundried tomato sauced chicken, Nagi! I know I will be licking the plate clean with this one! I have no shame! ♡ Pinned! Cheers, gilrfriend!!
Revival of the 80’s! Yay! 🙂
Hi Nagi! As you know I prefer dark meat also, but this recipe is perfect for white meat! We bought a large dehydrator a few years back to deal with garden “overflow” (plus it’s a lot less work than canning, which we do alot of). I also use it to make jerky for our dogs. I also save oil from olives, etc. – I cook with it, use it in salads and for bread dipping. You pay for it, so way waste it! 🙂 I e-mailed you that “story” yesterday.
DIY jerky for DOGS? SO JEALOUS! If I thought you were cool before, you’ve now been catapulted into another universe! 🙂
Hi Nagi! You have a very over inflated opinion of me! I’m really quite a simple person. I do what feels right and makes me happy and if I make others feel the same that makes me even happier! 🙂
I am a huuuuge fan of sundried tomatoes – YES – I have used the oil to cook with but NO – I’ve never marinated “cubes of feta or char grilled vegetables” in it! What a fantastic idea that is! But before I get too carried away – I gotta say – Nagi – this chicken looks glorious! This is so full of flavor!
Aw, thanks Shashi! quite a compliment coming from you! 🙂 N x
Can I just say I welcome the flashback, looks delish! Both you and Karina must be on the same sun dried tomato wavelength. 🙂
I know right? We need to do an 80’s revival series! Ha ha!! 🙂
I LOVE sun dried tomatoes and this looks like my kind of dinner!! That sauce looks so amazing, definitely adding this to our dinner rota!
Thank you so much Annie! You’re so sweet! 🙂
Your dish looks delicious Nagi and FANG (one of my food nicknames) would probably licked the plate! 🙂
Great use of the sun dried tomatoes…I bought a very simple and easy to use dehydrator recently and make my own, saving money! I wish I could come through the screen and try some of this today! Pinned
Oh my gosh, I am SO JEALOU! I want a dehydrator!
Last time I made sun dried tomato sauce, it was amazing, so I can’t wait to try out your version, too! Oh, and anything with Dijon is right up my alley 😉 Thanks for sharing, Nagi! 😀
Sun Dried tomatoes is like bacon – can make (almost) anything BETTER! Right? 😉 N x
Know what you mean about sun-dried tomatoes – used some a while back and wondered why I didn’t use them more often – then haven’t used them since – no doubt there are some languishing somewhere in the back of the fridge:-)
I found these ones in the dark corners of my fridge and it’s what inspired me to make this! Ha ha!
I love sun dried tomatoes, but don’t cook with them hardly enough. This dish looks so wonderful! And for only 340 calories? I don’t think it gets much better than that 😉
I know! I always seem to have a jar in the dark depths of the fridge but I always forget! 🙂