Easy Chicken Legs with Creamy Mushroom Sauce

If you want an easy recipe with just a few ingredients that tastes really good and looks fabulous – look no further and try these Easy Chicken Legs with Creamy Mushroom Sauce. 

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup flour (you can use gluten free flour)
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 2 lb chicken legs (about 3-4 large chicken legs)
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 10 oz mushrooms (each sliced in half)
  • 3 garlic cloves minced
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil (if needed)
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup heavy cream

Instructions 

  • In a small bowl, combine the flour, ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper.   On a large plate, dredge chicken legs in this seasoned flour mixture.
  • Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet on medium-high heat.  Add chicken legs skin side down and brown for about 4 minutes until the skin turn nice golden color.  Flip chicken legs over to the other side and brown the other side for about 3 minutes.  Remove browned chicken legs and set aside. Also remove those parts of olive oil that got too dark from browning the chicken with flour mixture.   
  • To the same, now empty skillet, add mushrooms (sliced in half) and minced garlic, add extra tablespoon of olive oil (if needed) and saute them together on medium heat for 2 minutes.  
  • Add chicken stock to the skillet, scraping up the browned bits at the bottom of the pan.  Add ¼ teaspoon of salt and stir. 
  • Place chicken legs back in the pan.
  • Bring the chicken stock to boil, cover and reduce heat to simmer on low-medium.  Simmer chicken legs for 25-30 minutes, until the chicken is completely cooked through and the juices run clear when chicken is cut in the middle. 
  • Remove the cooked chicken legs to a plate and keep warm.
  • Turn heat under skillet to medium-high, and simmer the mushroom sauce for about 4 minutes until it is reduced by about a third.  Stir in the ½ cup heavy cream into the mushroom sauce and simmer for another 2 minutes on low-medium heat, constantly stirring and scraping from the bottom of the skillet, until the sauce gets thicker.  
  • Add chicken legs back to the skillet to warm them up.  Serve

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