Thai Peanut Skillet Chicken

Thai Peanut Skillet Chicken

Did you guys know it is National Peanut Butter Day? There is actually a different food holiday every single day of the year. I teamed up with some of my favorite food blogger friends to bring you guys some really amazing peanut butter recipes. Everyone took a sweet tact with theirs, so I thought I would mix things up and offer a main course, savory meal option to go with all their mouthwatering desserts!

You guys, sometimes I just need a quick and easy weeknight meal that looks all kinds of impressive, but is super duper easy. You know what I am talking about, those secret ace up the sleeve meals that are no work, cheap, and easy, but that make you look like you slaved away? This is one of those.

Serve with Santa Fe Salad and How to Build the Perfect Root Beer Float! for a complete meal.

This particular recipe is delicious, and so easy to make. The toughest part is mixing up the sauce, and while that is ridiculously easy to do, I sometimes make a big huge batch and split it out and freeze it so that even that only has to be done on occasion. It just makes a Wednesday night meal between this practice and that practice easier. Ya know?

While we love a good Thai Peanut Skillet Chicken Skillet Greek Chicken is also good too.

What you need to make Thai Peanut Skillet Chicken

Anyway, then you just crisp up the outside of your chicken in a skillet with some butter, and then spoon the sauce over the top and pop it in the oven to bake. Literally 5 minutes of your time required. That is it. LOVE IT!

After you bake it, pop it in to broil for a minute or so to caramelize the sauce and crisp it up! Yummmy. Then top with some fresh cilantro (optional), and crushed up peanuts, and you have yourself an amazing meal. I love to serve this with rice and green beans.

So here is the recipe, but don’t forget all the tasty, sweet treats to wash it down with after. I know I am going to try ALL of them, and buy new jeans after.

Other Great Skillet Recipes

• Healthy Lemon Skillet Chicken
• Skillet French Onion Chicken
• Skillet Greek Chicken
• Skillet Honey Mustard Chicken
• Skillet Creamy Tuscan Chicken
• Skillet Teriyaki Chicken

Thai Peanut Skillet Chicken

Thai Peanut Skillet Chicken is flavorful, easy to make, and only dirties one skillet (and a bowl for mixing the sauce up).

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Course: Chicken

Cuisine: Thai

Keyword: peanut skillet chicken, thai

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 35 minutes minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes minutes

Servings: 8

Calories: 403kcal

Author: Rachael

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 8 bone-in skin-on chicken thighs

Sauce

• 1/2 cup thai sweet chili sauce
• 1 1/2 Tbs reduced sodium soy sauce
• 2 Tbs creamy peanut butter natural is best
• 1 Tbs minced garlic
• 2 Tbs oyster sauce or hoison if you can't find oyster
• 1 Tbs Ginger paste found in the fresh produce section by the herbs usually
• 3 Tbs lime juice
• 1 tsp Sriracha

Garnish

• 1/4 cup peanuts chopped
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro leaves

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Whisk together all the sauce ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
• Turn stove on to medium-high heat, and melt butter in a large oven-proof skillet.
• Add chicken, skin-side down, and sear until golden brown, about 2-3 minutes . Flip and repeat on the other side.
• Spoon thai peanut sauce over the top.
• Place the skillet in the oven and cook for 25-30 minutes until chicken reaches internal temp of 165 degrees F.
• Turn oven on to broil.
• Broil 2-3 minutes until caramelized and crisp.
• Garnished with peanuts and freshly chopped cilantro, if desired, and serve!

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 403kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 37g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 124mg | Sodium: 536mg | Potassium: 653mg | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 105IU | Vitamin C: 2.5mg | Calcium: 42mg | Iron: 1.4mg

Our recipe card software calculates these nutrition facts based on averages for the above ingredients, different brands, and quality of produce/meats may have different nutritional information, always calculate your own based on the specific products you use in order to achieve accurate macros for this recipe.

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