Garlic Chicken Sauce

Submitted by DancesInGarden

"This is a quick and easy sauce made from pantry ingredients that tastes more complex than it is. Serve over chicken cutlets or mashed potatoes, or toss with hot cooked pasta. Wonderful with sliced sauteed chicken over spaghetti, hot cooked shrimp or seafood mix over linguini, or pork cubes and spaetzle. Also excellent served over penne and steamed broccoli. Makes a good base for chicken casseroles in place of "cream of" soup from a can. Increase the garlic to your taste and feel free to add a pinch of cayenne or red pepper flakes."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 2 cups
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 cup hot water
• 2 teaspoons chicken bouillon powder
• 1 cup skim milk
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• salt
• pepper
• 1 lemon wedge

directions

1. Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat.
2. Add garlic and saute until fragrant and slightly brown, but don't let it get overly browned or burnt.
3. Add flour and whisk to combine (this makes a roux).
4. Cook and whisk the roux for a minute or so. You want it blonde, not brown.
5. Mix the bouillon powder, hot water, and milk.
6. Pour all at once in a thin stream into the roux, whisking all the while to avoid lumps. Keep whisking! It may look lumpy but if you keep whisking it will smooth out.
7. Bring to a bubble, and allow to bubble until thickened.
8. Squeeze the wedge of lemon over top (watch for seeds!).
9. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.

Reviews

[brianmakowski1967]

The sauce is easy and awesome. Substitute skim for whole or cream. Chicken brooth instead of water and bouillon. Breaded thin sliced chicken breast. Fried, Cooked bacon in over, Cooled and chopped. Put fried chicken on baking sheet. Put bacon on top, Then mozzarella or Italian blend cheese on of that. Put under broiler until cheese was golden. Served chicken on top of pasta. Put garlic sauce on that. Big hit.

 

[Mia in Germany]

Yum! Easy, and total comfort food! I used sweet rice flour and cornstarch for gluten free and goat's milk and butter for cow's milk free, and it worked wonderfully. We had this with chicken and zucchini and loved the garlicky flavour. Thanks for sharing!<br/>Made for PAC Spring 2014

 

[lauralie41]

This sauce is wonderful and very easy to make. I used chicken bouillon granules, 3 garlic cloves, but forgot to add the lemon juice. The garlic flavor was perfect for us and I think the lemon juice would pull all the flavors together and make them brighter. Spooned the sauce over chicken breasts and mashed potatoes than served. Will be making this again! Made and reviewed for PAC Fall 2008.

 

[lin18760]

This is very good,quick and easy!Will make often,thanks.