Garlic Butter Baked Chicken Breast is a simple and delicious way to make juicy, flavorful chicken every time. These oven-baked chicken breasts are covered in a tasty garlic butter sauce. This sauce keeps them tender and moist, with a golden and slightly crispy edge. Perfect for a quick weeknight dinner or easy meal prep!
Best Chicken Breast Recipe You’ll EVER Make!
If you love juicy chicken breast recipes, I’m sure you’ll love this one. My husband also loves it, especially because I cook it in garlic butter sauce. Who doesn’t love a buttery flavoured sauce?
This sauce gives more flavor to this recipe and helps the chicken breast to be tender, moist and juicy too. This sauce is so good that you don’t need to even use a chicken marinade.
I also love how quick and easy this recipe is. No complicated steps, wrapping, or brining required. You don’t need to pound the chicken breasts with a rolling pin or meat mallet. Also, there’s no need for parchment paper or plastic wrap either.
I absolutely love easy and quick baked chicken breast recipes for dinner. If you’re like me, try these delicious family chicken breast recipes too: Creamy Parmesan Chicken Breast and Stuffed Chicken Breast recipe. Want even more chicken breast recipes? Try these 50 Best Chicken Breast Recipes, Instant Pot Chicken Breast and this Air Fryer Chicken Breast Recipe.
Chicken Breast – I use boneless, skinless chicken breasts for a lean, quick-cooking protein. After making this recipe many times, I found that this cut is the best. It has a great balance of tenderness and juiciness, especially when baked with garlic butter. But feel free to replace chicken breast for chicken thighs if it’s what you have.
Butter – I always opt for unsalted butter in recipes like this to give me full control over the salt levels. I’ve found that unsalted butter allows the garlic and other seasonings to shine without the risk of the dish being too salty.
Garlic – Freshly minced garlic is a must for its vibrant, aromatic flavor. I’ve tried pre-minced or jarred garlic, but nothing beats the flavor and freshness of fresh garlic in the butter sauce.
1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Season all the sides of chicken breast with salt, pepper and smoked paprika. If you prefer you can also use your favorite spices like garlic powder, dried oregano and chili powder too.
2. In a cast iron skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Once the skillet is hot, add the chicken breast. Sear for 1-2 minutes on each side, or until golden brown.
2. In a small bowl mix together the butter, Italian seasoning, parsley, and garlic. Then, pour the garlic butter mixture over the chicken breasts.
3. Place the skillet in the oven. There’s no need to flip them when baking.
4. Bake chicken breast for 20-30 minutes or until the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165°F.
4. Remove the cooked chicken breasts from the oven. Using a spoon, drizzle some of the butter sauce from the skillet over the juicy, tender chicken breasts before serving.
Olivia's Recipe Tips:
- After removing the chicken breast from the fridge, pat dry the chicken with paper towels.
- Let the chicken rest for 5 minutes before serving.
- You can use a regular skillet to sear your chicken if you don’t have a cast iron skillet. Then, transfer them to a casserole, or an oven-safe baking dish.
- If you want a more buttery sauce, add two extra tablespoons of butter.
The cooking time will depend on the size of your chicken breast and also on the power of your oven. Some ovens have slight heat differences.
But according to USDA, a 4-oz. chicken breast should be bake at 350°F (177˚C) for 25 minutes or 30 minutes to be fully cooked. If it’s smaller than 4oz, bake it for about 20 minutes.
However, to bake a 5 to 6 ounce chicken breast at 400F, it will take around 20 to 25 minutes.
It’s important that you use an instant read thermometer when cooking chicken breast to check that the internal temperature.
How do you keep chicken breast from drying out in the Oven?
Be sure to not over bake the chicken breasts to avoid them getting dried out when baked. We also put the garlic butter overtop the breasts so that there’s extra added moisture to it. This is how I make delicious baked chicken breast that retain all of their natural juices.
Serve this Recipe with:
This baked chicken breast recipe is amazing served fresh out of the oven with some veggie sides. But you can also slice, shred, or dice them to use in other dishes, like chicken noodle soup, chicken salad, or chicken chili.
I usually love to serve it with salads, rice, mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus, broccoli salad and sweet potato fries.
You can also serve with a delicious quinoa salad and yummy air fryer baked sweet potato.
More Chicken Breast Recipes To Try:
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Lemon Rosemary Chicken
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Mediterranean Chicken Recipe
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Garlic Butter Baked Chicken Breast
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- salt and black pepper
- 1/2 + 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 4 tbsp butter (melted)
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 tbsp. olive oil extra virgin
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Season chicken breast with salt, pepper, 1/2 teaspoon of paprika and set aside.
- In a small bowl mix 1/4 teaspoon of paprika, butter, Italian seasoning, parsley, and garlic. Set aside.
- In a cast iron skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. When the skillet is hot add chicken breast. Sear until golden. It’s about 1-2 minutes each side.
- Pour garlic butter mixture over the chicken breast. Place skillet in the oven and cook until cooked through. It’s about 20 minutes or until chicken breasts gets to an internal temperature of 165F.
- Remove from the oven. Using a spoon, pour some of the butter sauce left in the skillet onto the chicken breast. Also, if you prefer, top with fresh herbs before serving.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I’m not a fan of breast usually I eat dark meat but it was very tasty. Thanks Olivia
You’re very welcome. Thank you so much for commenting 😉
Making these now…they already look good before even putting them in the oven!
Happy to hear that!
This is a delicious meal. I had leftover chicken and garlic butter sauce. I sauteed mushrooms, reheated chicken and sauce I mixed in angel hair pasta and voila, another meal. Thanks for this recipe!
Thank you. Happy you like it and angel hair pasta with it sounds great.
Made this tonight and it was so moist and delicious!
That’s great!!
Breast is the best! (If you can cook like Olivia, haha)
This recipe was amazing, never tried paprika on garlic chicken. Very simple!
This would have saved me on the nutricken diet.
My husband is a new fan of yours! (he says hi!)
Thanks Olivia!
That’s so awesome! I’m so thrilled to hear you and your husband enjoyed this recipe! Thanks a lot for your feedback 😉
Rarely, do I find really good recipes. This really did taste like it came from a restaurant. Will definitely be using this one again and again. Thanks!
That’s awesome! Love to hear you enjoyed this recipe 😉
Made your recipe garlic butter chicken breast:) it is Amazing 😉 I basically live on boneless chicken breast! This is my Fav!!! Paprika is my all time spice, and I use hot paprika. Thank you! My grandparents are Hungarian, Soo I grew up on lots of paprika dishes 😋😋
Awesome!! So happy you like it!
Just pulled chicken out of the oven to rest, since my breasts were approximately 4 oz I cooked for 20 mins basted the breasts and stood by for 2-3 mins and then pulled them out. looks just as pictured. Made white quinoa and pan seared summer veggies. Looks delicious can’t wait to dig in!!
That’s awesome. Happy to hear that 😉
My son is very picky but he loves this recipe. Now I will be cooking this at least twice a week Thank you so much Olivia
Your comment just made my day. Thank you so much 😉
Do you need to pound out the chicken ?
Not necessary. But when some parts of chicken breast are thicker than other parts, they will cook at an uneven rate. So pounding the chicken will allow to cook it evenly.
Very good. I didnt have parsley so I substituted with basil, thyme and some rosemary. Overall easy and delish. Thank you.
Awesome. It’s a very easy dish to put together and it’s so flavourful!
I was curious if we substitute the grass fed butter with regular butter would it still taste the same?
Yes it does!
Do you cook them at 350?
400F
What if I don’t have fresh OR dry parsley???
Parsley is optional. If you don’t have it, don’t add.
Nice and easy recipe that results in a very satisfying meal. Kids ate it up. That’s a win.
That’s awesome. Glad to know your kids enjoyed it 😉
Fixed this for my client and he loved it!
Awesome!
Can you substitute chicken tenders for the chicken breasts?
Sorry I can’t confirm it with you, but I’ve never made this recipe with chicken tenders. Please let me know how it turned out if you try it 😉
Love so easy and came out perfect! Tasty tooMiche
Can you make this ahead of time and refrigerate?
yes you can.
If i refrigirate these, what is the perfect way to reheat them?
I normally just warm them up in the microwave.
I must say this recipe turned out delicious. Pretty easy to make and full of flavor.
Thanks
You’re very welcome!
Wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing. I didn’t know about the parchment paper amazing!
You’re very welcome!
Bachelor here. Made for guests over a bed of basmati race with fresh baby spinach. Got a couple “you won’t be a bachelor for long…” comments. So it definitely went pretty well. Thanks
That’s really great! Happy to hear that 😉
I’m a chef at a restaurant a 5 star gourmet place, also in culinary arts college and this recipe caught my eye. The aroma smells amazing! I might introduce this to the restaurant 🙂
Wow thank you!!! I’m so happy to hear that especially coming from someone who is a professional chef. Thank you again 😉
I was looking for a different recipe for chicken breasts and came across yours. I made it last night and it was delicious. My husband especially liked the butter garlic sauce. Thanks for sharing
Right? The garlic butter sauce is the best! Thanks for stopping by 😉
Thank you for the recipe the whole family loved it and it was simple and quick. My only problem was the chicken was a little dry, cooking it at 400 might be too much in my oven so if your oven cooks high maybe bring the temp down or the time. Still full of flavor!!
Happy you like it. You just need to bake until the chicken gets the internal temperature of 165F. If you cook for long time it will be dry.
Just tried this recipe with olive oil and basil and it came out amazing! Thank you
Awesome 😉
I don’t have a cast iron pan , any suggestion on how to make , this sounds amazing
You can use any other skillet you have on hand 😉
The recipe was simply awesome,only thing which I felt lacking was the spices didn’t thoroughly went inside.
Would love if u can suggest something.
Thanks
You can season the chicken and marinate it over night.
This was so easy and so good ! We will have this again !
Awesome 🙂
I’m currently making this recipe for the second time, the first time my family loved it! But I will say it’s a little much garlic for my taste, and a little lemon pepper seasoning would do so much for this recipe! Overall an amazing recipe and I plan on making it many times.
Awesome. You can always reduce the amount of garlic according to your taste and yes lemon pepper seasoning works great too 😉
My husband and I both loved this chicken!
So happy to hear that 😉
So I do something similar with the garlic butter to my pork chops. I think I’m the only woman that doesnt own a cast iron I seared them and then put it in a baking pan still turned out amazing never would have thought to do this with chicken loved it!
I made this for dinner & paired it with cacio e pepe, and it was a hit! My teens loved it! Super good!!!
Amazing! I’m so so happy to hear you and your boys liked this recipe!
Just got done eating this. It was so good and a hit with my young boys and husband! Thank you! Def making this again 😉
You’re very welcome!
They taste delicious! Thank you so much!
I’m trying to log the nutrition in myfitnesspal. By serving 1/3 does that mean that’s the value for 1/3 of a single breast?
Yes it does.