The Best Sauteed Chicken Thighs Recipe for a Healthy Meal
Elevate your weeknight dinners with this delicious sauteed chicken thighs recipe. It's packed with flavor and can be made in just 30 minutes.
Ingredients
- 16 pcs Boneless chicken thighs
- Kosher salt to taste
- 1 tsp Black Pepper
- 1 cup All-purpose flour
- 6 tbsp Olive oil
- 1 tsp Dried oregano
- 1 tsp Lemon juice
Instructions
Here, we are not going to cook pan-fried chicken thighs. Frying means more oil. And it's not good for your health. Sauté requires less oil. Among healthy chicken thigh recipes, this one is really easy.
You just need to follow the directions step by step as below:
- At first, take the boneless chicken thighs in a bowl. Pat dry them with a paper towel. Then add the kosher salt according to taste, and also the black pepper. Mix them well so that they are evenly spread to all the pieces.
- Next, take the all-purpose flour on a plate. Dredge the chicken thighs with it.
- After that heat a sauté pan. The heat should be moderate-high. Add olive oil and then the meat. Fry one side of the chicken for 7 minutes. Then flip it, and do the same. Once cooked, add the lemon juice and dried oregano. Wait for 1 minute.
- Your dish is ready to serve.
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Notes
Chicken has been in use and demand for a long time ago. It can easily fulfill your protein needs regularly. The nutrition value of different parts varies. For example- chicken breasts are popular, but the thighs have more nutrition.
It will clearer with a comparison. Like- in chicken breast in every 100gm of it has 140 calories. Also, it contains 3gm of total fat and 1 gm of saturated fat.
In chicken thighs, in every 100gm there are 177 calories, 8gm of total fat, and 2.3gm of saturated fat. It is almost double. And when you cook, this value will increase depending on the portion.
