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This Ranch Chicken recipe is an easy skillet meal with creamy sauce and zesty Ranch seasoning. Serve with a side of vegetables and spoon that delicious sauce over some warm baked potatoes!
Be sure to try my Bacon Ranch Chicken for a twist on this recipe with bacon and cheese!
Creamy Ranch Chicken
This meal is definitely one of my favorite easy meals. It actually came about because I was trying to put a different spin on my super popular creamy chicken stew recipe. And this skillet meal is the perfect way to do just that.
The chicken is perfectly seasoned and so flavorful, (with a little brush of melted butter for an extra crispy golden sear, I might add). And the sauce takes just minutes to make from there.
I have to insist that you serve up some baked potatoes with this meal. Spooning this sauce over some warm, fluffy baked potatoes is truly heavenly. Your family is definitely going to request this often!
Want to take it over the top!? Sprinkle some crispy bacon on top right before serving!
How to Make It
See recipe card below this post for ingredient quantities and full instructions.
Slice each chicken breast into 2-3 thinner slices, about 1/2 inch thick. Season with Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper. Brush 1 side of each piece with melted butter and sear in olive oil for 4-5 minutes per side, until golden brown. Set aside.
Combine sauce ingredients over medium heat. Let it bubble gently for 5 minutes.
Add chicken back to the skillet and spoon sauce on top. Cover partially and simmer for 10 minutes. Serve with mashed or baked potatoes and vegetables.
Pro Tips
- Important! Be sure to get Ranch seasoning mix for this recipe, not Ranch dip mix, they do taste differently and have different uses.
- If you’re not a ranch lover– don’t worry. Ranch seasoning adds a lot of zesty, savory flavor to this sauce, but it doesn’t make it taste like bottled ranch dressing.
- Frozen vegetables can be mixed into the sauce as well. Add them when you add the other sauce ingredients and give them sufficient time to heat through, then add the chicken.
- Brushing the chicken with melted butter not only gives it more flavor, but enhances the golden brown crusty sear. I prefer to brush it right onto the chicken instead of letting it melt in the pan, this way it’s more likely to stay right on the chicken and not burn in the pan.
- If using smaller chicken breasts, consider using 3-4 instead of 2 large.
- Adding Bacon and Cheese: Try my Bacon Ranch Chicken for a fun twist on this recipe!
- Pork Chops: Try my Ranch Pork Chops to switch up the protein!
- This recipe is in The Cozy Cookbook on page 115!
Storage
- Store in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 3 days or freeze for up to 3 months.
- It does freeze well, you can freeze baked potatoes with it as well as a side of veggies for easy microwavable lunches or dinners.
Tools For This Recipe
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- This is the skillet I used in this recipe, (and in 90% of my recipes). It’s pricey, but it conducts heat really well and is oven safe. The size is perfect and the quality is great.
- Meat Tenderizer – Using this tool really does make the chicken more tender, you’ll barely have to chew it!
- Kitchen Tongs– makes it easy to handle the chicken when searing and even easier to flip individual mushroom slices as they cook.
- Ranch Seasoning– I like to buy mine in bulk for all of my Ranch Recipes.
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Creamy Ranch Chicken
Ingredients
Chicken
- 2 large boneless/skinless chicken breast
- 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
- Salt/Pepper
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, can sub vegetable or canola oil
Sauce
- 10.5 oz. cream of chicken soup
- 1 ½ cups milk
- 1 cup sour cream, at room temp
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- 1 oz. packet Ranch seasoning mix, about 3 Tablespoons
Instructions
Season/Sear the Chicken:
- Slice the chicken into 2-3 thinner slices. Pound with a meat tenderizer if needed, the chicken will plump up more when cooked. Aim for ½ inch thick slices.
- Sprinkle each side of the chicken with Italian seasoning and salt/pepper. Brush one side of each piece with melted butter, make sure the butter isn’t too hot.
- Heat olive oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add 2-3 pieces of chicken, (buttered side down), leaving room around each. Sauté for 4-5 minutes per side, until a golden brown crust has developed. Remove and set aside. Repeat with the remaining chicken.
- Pro Tips: Make slight adjustments to the heat, (up or down), as needed during cooking. Add an additional splash of oil if needed throughout cooking. Try to leave the chicken undisturbed as it cooks to get a nice crusty sear. Don’t force it up from the pan, it will release when the crust has formed.
Make the Sauce
- Remove any excess oil from the skillet if needed. Add the sauce ingredients over medium heat. Stir until combined. Let it bubble gently and reduce for 5 minutes. Add the chicken and spoon the sauce on top.
- Cover the skillet partially and let the chicken heat through and absorb the flavors from the sauce, about 10 minutes.
- Optional: Serve with baked potatoes and spoon the sauce over each potato (it is so good that way)!
Notes
- Important! Be sure to get Ranch seasoning mix for this recipe, not Ranch dip mix, they do taste differently and have different uses.
- If you're not a ranch lover- don't worry. Ranch seasoning adds a lot of zesty, savory flavor to this sauce, but it doesn't make it taste like bottled ranch dressing.
- Crispy crumbled bacon is also great on top of this!
- Frozen vegetables can be mixed into the sauce as well. Add them when you add the other sauce ingredients and give them sufficient time to heat through, then add the chicken.
- If using smaller chicken breasts, consider using 3-4 instead of 2 large.
- Adding Bacon and Cheese: Try my Bacon Ranch Chicken for a fun twist on this recipe!
- Pork Chops: Try my Ranch Pork Chops to switch up the protein!
- This recipe is in The Cozy Cookbook on page 115!
Storage:
- Store in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 3 days or freeze for up to 3 months.
- It does freeze well, you can freeze baked potatoes with it as well as a side of veggies for easy microwavable lunches or dinners.
The nutritional information shared is an estimate and is per serving. There are 4 servings in this recipe.
First time making it and it was a hit!Def a keeper.
That’s so great to hear Elizabeth, nice work!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a review!💖
Omgggg tried this recipe today and it is AMAZING everyone loved it
I’m so happy that you loved it Brooklyn! Excellent! 🙂 Thank you so much for the review!! -Stephanie
Made this for the second time and paired with mashed potatoes and it was incredible! Love how quick and simple it is, and the pantry friendly ingredients. Big fan of your pan seared chicken dishes.
I am so thrilled to hear that Rachel! I am so obsessed with this one, it’s one of my favs! (And like you said, super easy!) So glad you’re loving my chicken recipes, thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review!! -Stephanie 🙂
Can you just use condensed cream of chicken Campbell’s? It looks like the perfect after work quick meal and i love ranch so i cant wait to try it.
Hi Jenn, yes, the recipe calls for a can of condensed cream of chicken, like Campbell’s! Enjoy!
This was phenomenal! Perfect rainy day meal for dinner. Even my toddlers loved it!
Wahooo! I’m so happy to hear that Jenna! Thanks so much!💖
Would this not work as a make ahead/freezer meal because the sauce could possibly separate? In the storage directions it doesn’t give any instructions on how to freeze it properly. It just says to put it in an airtight container but that seems more like for leftovers. I’m wondering how you would reheat that from frozen, as well since there aren’t any details about that.
Hi Shavaughn, I freeze leftovers in an airtight container all the time! 🙂 I have some in my freezer right now. Let it cool, then place in an airtight container in the freezer. There are so many different ways that you can reheat leftovers and reheating instructions vary depending on how much you’re reheating. You can let it thaw in the fridge overnight or use a thaw/melt setting in the microwave. You can fully reheat it in the microwave (again, I use the melt setting for that, different microwaves have different settings/options). You can also reheat it in a covered casserole dish at 350 for 20 minutes or so, or until heated through. Using a baking dish relatively the same size as the portion that you’re reheating to keep things moist.
Thank you so much. I want to make this as a freezer meal for my parents so having details about how they can reheat it is very helpful and appreciated!
I am trying this recipe for the first time for supper tonight. So I am excited to see how it goes.
We are trying to make our own dry mixes, so this is going to be an experiment with the “dry ranch” and the “dry cream of anything” mixes.
I doubled this recipe, so we shall see how it taste.
Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Enjoy Danisha! I can’t wait to hear how it came out!🩷
It was quite tasty, however with dry mixes it takes some adjustment. I am the one that pours and sprinkles until my ancestors say that is enough child.. haha!! But seriously we will make this again.
Tried this recipe since my husband is a huge fan of ranch. So quick and easy and my husband was savoring every last drop of the sauce.
I’m so happy that it was a hit!! I am the same way about the sauce, I eat every last drop! It’s the best. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review!! 🙂 -Stephanie
This was so good, will be making again! Thanks for sharing!
It’s my pleasure Robin! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a review!🩷
Could you make this in a crockpot?
Hey there! This recipe isn’t designed for the crock pot as it could curdle. The sauce would also be thinner due to the condensation. ❤️