Garlic Basil Chicken with Tomato Butter Sauce? This real food recipe only requires 7 simple ingredients: chicken, pasta, garlic, olive oil, tomatoes, basil, butter. SO good.
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This is amazing! Like, wow wow amazing! I have a ton of garden tomatoes and this recipe really highlights the natural flavors. Highly recommend. Delish.🍅
Roxanne Blesh
Today’s post is sponsored by Land O’Lakes! I’m super excited to be using their new European Style Super Premium Butter in this recipe because, um, Tomato Butter Sauce? Yeah.
Welcome, welcome, friends!
And may I introduce you to what may be my new favorite way to eat chicken? It’s that beauty right up there, the one coated in the buttery garden-fresh tomato sauce featuring a few leaves of summertime basil and the aroma of freshly minced garlic. Yes, THAT is how I eat chicken.
To be honest, I always feel a little hypocritical posting chicken recipes, because you already know how I really feel – a lot of the time I’m only so-so on this very regular white meat which is supposedly everyone’s favorite thing ever. But I guess that means that when I actually do post chicken recipes, you kindred chicken-meh spirits out there can join with me in knowing that there are at least a few good ways to make chicken that do indeed exist in the universe. Where my kindred chicken-meh spirits at?
On the flip side of kindred spirits, this summer I *think* I might have officially joined the ranks of People Who Garden by no kindred association whatsoever – more by sheer determination and a lot of luck.
And my entrance into the club really depends on if you can count plants that were purchased from a grocery store and/or plants that have shriveled and completely died since being in your care. It also depends on if your definition of Garden has a quantity cut off, because we’re working with about (count em) 1-2-3-4-5 single plants this summer.
But if you’ll have me, Gardeners, I’ll happily join you, because look at what came OUT OF THE GROUND FROM A SEED in my very own little backyard box. 🏆🏆🏆
Okay, the tomatoes in those last pictures are actually not from my garden, but they ARE from my neighbor’s garden and they ARE the ones I used for this recipe. My own Roma babies are still, well, honestly, I just can’t bring myself to pick them yet. Newbie problems.
If you are the neighborhood gardener who leaves drop-offs of perfectly garden-ripe produce on your neighbors doorsteps, I want to talk to you about moving into my hood. We live in a great neighborhood with lots of charming, adorab– fine, I’ll stop. You don’t have to move here.
But this is truly how I received my tomatoes last week – the neighborly doorstep drop-off – and those tomatoes made me this dinner that made me like chicken for one night. That is some big time neighborly love right there.
That is also some big time butter-ly love.
Tomatoes. Olive oil. Garlic, basil, and butter.
On your marks, get set, go.
Hallelujah and glory be, this tomato-butter-garlic basil chicken combination was so utterly simple and perfect.
The LAND O LAKES® European Style Super Premium Butter, as we talked about before, is just plain everything. The ingredient combination here is so simple that you must must must make sure every ingredient is high quality to the point of CAN’T NOT HAVE IT. The tomatoes, the basil, the garlic – they must shine, and using a really high quality butter (made from sweet cream and churned for a higher percentage of fat) is the way to do it.
And if you’re into butter and you’re into Instagram, I have the perfect thing for you: the Land O Lakes Instagram account which showcases all the amazing ways to use the golden child of all the butters.
I am really just getting impatient for you to experience this end of summer perfection, so please experience it a-sap. I don’t mean to limit this recipe to end-of-summer months only, but. But but but. It’s going to be the best when you use the extra-ripe tomatoes that your neighbor dropped off on your doorstep or the explosion of end-of-summer farmers market basil and don’t panic but IT’S ALREADY THE END OF SUMMER.
Thankfully tomatoes are good for a few more months yet, and your basil plants are probably all reaching the end of the line so you’re looking for ways to use up all that fresh basil (please tell me it’s not just me), and this is how you’re going to find yourself, in September, loving September, but savoring the heck out of these last few bites of summer.
Check Out Our Video For How To Make Our Garlic Basil Chicken with Tomato Butter Sauce:
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Garlic Basil Chicken with Tomato Butter Sauce
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Description
Garlic Basil Chicken – you won’t believe that this easy real food recipe only requires 7 ingredients like basil, garlic, olive oil, tomatoes, and butter.
Ingredients
- 1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts
- salt and pepper
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 5–6 roma tomatoes, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- one handful fresh basil, loosely packed, cut into ribbons
- 1/4 cup LAND O LAKES® European Style Super Premium Salted Butter
- 8 ounces pasta, like spaghetti, linguine, or bucatini
Instructions
- Cover the chicken with plastic wrap and pound each piece to an even thickness, about one inch or so in the thickest parts (this just helps it cook faster and more evenly). Remove the plastic and sprinkle each piece of chicken generously with sea salt and freshly ground pepper.
- Prep the tomatoes, garlic, and basil and set aside. Make the pasta according to package directions.
- Heat the olive oil in a large heavy skillet until a drop of water sizzles across the top. Add the chicken and pan-fry for several minutes on each side – the goal here is to get the chicken cooked AND get a nice browning on the outside. When the chicken is done, set aside.
- Give the oil a few minutes to cool, add the tomatoes, and return to heat (if you add the tomatoes to the hot oil it will be a splatter-fest). Simmer to cook the tomatoes down into a chunky-sauce-like-mixture. Add the garlic and butter and stir to combine until the butter is melted. Add the chicken back in to soak in the sauce for a few minutes.
- Just before serving, stir in the basil. Top servings of pasta with the chicken and the sauce.
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You can see the picture to see how much basil I used. I pulled all those leaves off, ribbon-ed them, and added them in! It was probably about one cup, loosely packed, but go by taste. If you’re not huge on basil, start with less.
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Category: Dinner
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: garlic basil chicken, tomato butter sauce, basil chicken
Pinch of Yum has partnered with Land O’Lakes for an exclusive endorsement of LAND O LAKES® European Style Super Premium Butter. This post is sponsored by Land O’Lakes.
Delicious and simple – will absolutely make again! Added a little parmesan cheese on top….
Made this twice and turned out amazing both times! Had fresh thyme and oregano on hand so threw that in along with the basil. Printing the recipe so that it can become one of my go-tos. Love Pinch of Yum recipes!
WAY too much oil to cook the chicken in. You can achieve browned and cooked juicy chicken with much less. Like a TB or 2.
Also, the instructions are not great..no time frame reference for how long to cook anything. Although chicken is easy to determine. It was tasty, albeit oily, and lacked some extra black pepper and a little salt.
Great! Made with Romas I froze from last summer. Froze them whole, with skins. When partially thawed it’s easy to peel off the skins. I let them drain quite a bit since the freeze and thaw made them watery but these tomatoes worked perfectly. Used papardelle pasta and added some red pepper flakes. The kids loved this recipe as well.
can’t wait to try making this delicious looking Garlic Basil Chicken with Tomato Butter Sauce recipe, this one seems truly delicious and unique. Thanks for sharing this recipe with us.
I tried this recipe. I had to make substitutions based on what I had. So canned tomatoes diced, Basil pesto in olive oil & frozen chicken breasts. It was still a keeper of a recipe. Thank you for sharing!
Super tasty and simple
Super tasty
Made this with home grown Marzanos and it was Amazing!!! Having company tomorrow and am going to make it for them with more home grown Marzanos and basil! Yum! ! Thanks for a fantastic recipe!!!
Can’t wait to try this Garlic Basil Chicken with Tomato Butter Sauce, this one seems amazing and unique . Super excited to try this one for sure.
Super excited to try this Garlic Basil Chicken with Tomato Butter Sauce recipe , this one seems amazin and unique . Thanks for sharing this one with us.
Super excited to try this Garlic Basil Chicken with Tomato Butter Sauce, seems amazing and unique . Thanks for sharing this one.
I just made this for dinner. It is delicious. I used boneless chicken thighs instead of breasts. I loved having arecipe that uses a lot of basil. My basil plant is a great producer.
Desperately looking for info on diets and recipes that would work for my niece who has gestational diabetes. Any ideas? Resources or any of your recipes you’d suggest? I bet a lot of YOUR recipes would be good. I’m just starting to learn about this G diabetes now. HELP! Thanks! Also could I freeze your incredible butter chicken and sauce dish? What adjustments would you make for freezing it . Of course, not the pasta. Thanks. Any advice you can offer could be fantastic.
Hi Kasha! We’d definitely suggest seeking out a medical professional for info on diets for gestational diabetes, but our recipe page is a great resource to search for recipes by category such as diet (sugar free, healthy, etc), or ingredient.
For the butter chicken, are you referring to this Garlic Basil Chicken? If so, you can definitely freeze. Can’t think of any special adjustments that’d need to be made.
Super excited to try this Garlic Basil Chicken with Tomato Butter Sauce, this one seems super delicious and amazing . Thanks for sharing this one with us .
This has become a family favorite! Thank you 😊
Sooooo Delicious!
Great, easy recipe for a good weeknight meal. It took hardly any time at all! Only thing I would do differently next time is stire the pasta into the sauce, just a family preference. The taste was wonderful.
This Garlic Basil Chicken with Tomato Butter Sauce seems amazing and perfect one , I love chicken and this one is truly perfect. Thanks for sharing this recipe with us.
Awesome! I added some mushrooms and it worked, too.
This recipe “Garlic Basil Chicken with Tomato Butter Sauce” seems so delicious , will surely gonna try this .My husband gonna love this one.
Love this “Garlic Basil Chicken With Tomato Butter Sauce”, actually I am a chicken lover, will surely gonna try this, thanks for sharing recipe and instructions.
“Garlic Basil Chicken with Tomato Butter Sauce” looks so delicious , I love chicken. This will be todays dinner for sure. Thanks for sharing instructions and ingredients too.
so simplistic but yet amazing and flavourful! this is going into my bank of recipes for another day.
Outstanding recipe, we’ve made it dozens of times, everybody we’ve made it for loves it (including our 6 year old).