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.
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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 made this a few nights ago and my family loved it so much that I am making it again tonight
That’s awesome. Happy you and your family liked this recipe!
I put mine in for 16 minutes and the temperature hit 180, darn it! Next time, only about 13 minutes before resting, my oven must be off. Otherwise, really delicious and flavorful!!
The cooking time may be different because of the thickness of your chicken breast and also the oven.
OMG, I found this at the last minute and it was fantastic! Thank you so much!
Glad you found this recipe. It’s so good. Happy you enjoyed it.
Thanks for this amazing recipe! I usually do not like eating chicken breast but force myself to in order to maintain a healthy diet.
I am Indian so I modified the recipe a bit to cater to my taste buds.
Instead of parsley, I used coriander leaves.
Instead of Italian herbs I added coriander powder, cumin powder and red chilli powder.
I used a bit of ghee along with butter for baking, and threw in a few veggies (mushrooms, onion slices, potatoes, broccoli, asparagus, carrot) along with the chicken in the oven.
Kept all the other ingredients and process the same. Squeezed some lemon in the end.
I cannot stop cooking this recipe! I am not gonna stop until I overwhelm myself 🙂
Sounds very yummy!
Absolutely delicious
Glad you liked it! We love this recipe too. So good and easy to make.
Just made this for dinner. My guy seemed suspicious of a new recipe. I made some spinach Alfredo pasta, and cut the chicken up on top. When I gave him a bowl with some of the pan sauce over the top, and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese, 👩🏽🍳💋! I think I will be adding this into our meal rotation. Pretty easy to make, and I basted the chicken each time I checked the temp No worry about being too dry.
Thank you for this great recipe!
You are very welcome! Glad you guys enjoyed this recipe.
Just made this for dinner. My guy seemed suspicious of a new recipe. I made some spinach Alfredo pasta, and cut the chicken up on top. When I gave him a bowl with some of the pan sauce over the top, and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese, 👩🏽🍳💋! I think I will be adding this into our meal rotation. Pretty easy to make, and I basted the chicken each time I checked the temp No worry about being too dry.
Thank you for this great recipe!
So awesome! Love that you served it with spinach Alfredo pasta!
Family loved it thank God!!!
So glad your family enjoyed this recipe!
I’ve made this recipe twice and without fail. Absolutely delicious!
Awww so happy to hear that. Thanks for your comment and for stopping by!
I’ve made this a few times, and it’s been excellent each time! I add some Herbes de Provence to the butter sauce and go a little heavy on the paprika and garlic, never fails!
Your comment made me so happy. So glad you enjoyed this recipe!
Made this and my picky son absolutely loved it! Question though, can I make the chicken in a crockpot instead?? TIA
So glad you and your son enjoyed this recipe! I’m not sure since I’ve never made this recipe in a crockpot before. Sorry.
Made as written… delicious moist chicken full of flavor
So glad you enjoyed this recipe!
Made this for dinner tonight and its a new go to. Not only is it delicious but it was fast and easy to prep and have on the table plus my picky eater not only ate it but asked for seconds. I will be making this for my family again!
Your comment made my day 😉 So happy to know that everybody loved and enjoy it! Thanks for stopping by.
I make this often and my family loves it. Delicious!!
Aww so happy to hear that. Thanks for stopping by.
This was so good! Finally a boneless chicken recipe my whole family enjoys! I did substitute garlic salt instead of fresh garlic but it came out so moist & tender. We had no leftovers! This is going in our dinner menu rotation as a favorite.Thankyou
You’re very welcome!
I doubled the sauce, sliced the chicken over rice. The extra sauce was delicious on the rice. The whole family loved this. Turned out very moist.
Awesome. Happy you liked it!
Fabulous! My partner and I just made this to go with our salad.
The chicken turned out moist, and delicious. We only changed the quantities not the ingredients, we used one chicken breast to share, we also used a little less paprika because we aren’t fans of it, but like I said it turned out perfect.
When we were done eating he said we should have made more for leftovers, so next time we will do a little more breasts.
I am very happy to know that you and your partner enjoyed this recipe. It’s one of my favorites!
I made the Baked Chicken Breast and couldn’t have said it better.
Tender, juicy Garlic Butter Baked Chicken Breast, that’s packed with flavor from the garlic butter sauce. It’s totally a win win!
Awesome. I’m so happy you liked it!
I made the Baked Chicken Breast and couldn’t have said it better.
Tender, juicy Garlic Butter packed with flavor a win win!
You comment made me so happy. Glad you like it. And yes this recipe is so tender and juicy. We love it.
I made the Baked Chicken Breast and couldn’t have said it better., juicy Garlic Butter packed with flavor!
Indeed it it 😉