Elegant Garlic Chicken

Ingredients
3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 tablespoons butter
6 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, sliced
3-4 cloves (one per chicken breast)
1 bay leaf, broken in half
¹⁄₂ teaspoon salt
¹⁄₂ teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
1 cup white wine
¹⁄₂ cup sour cream

Instructions
1. In a large skillet, place butter and garlic and heat to medium temperature, about 2 minutes or until garlic is light brown.

2. Add chicken and cook, turning, about 10 minutes or until brown on all sides.

3. Place onion slices on bottom of pan under chicken.  Poke one clove into each chicken breast and add bay leaf to skillet.  Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper; pour wine over chicken.

4. Cover, reduce temperature to low and simmer about 40 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.

5. Remove chicken to serving plates and keep warm. Turn heat on skillet to high and reduce sauce for 5-10 minutes. Add sour cream and cook, stirring, about 2 minutes until warm but not boiling. Spoon pan sauce over chicken.

Comments
I’ve been cooking this recipe for a bit over a year now and it’s seen drastic changes from its original form.  The original recipe called for a mere single clove of garlic.  I’m still not sure how a recipe can get away with garlic in the title yet only have one measly clove!  Even the first time I made it we knew that the flavors would work, so I tweaked it until it turned into this.  This is super tasty and a nice, low-maintenance dish to make.

Shown here with a fantastically nutty Lundberg rice blend - Wild Blend.  It made the whole house smell edible while it was cooking.

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