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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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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Brilliant recipe! I make this almost weekly. I double the garlic, and add quartered cherry tomatoes to the skillet when it goes in the oven, and serve it on a bed of pesto pasta. Delicious, quick and easy 🙂
Mm.. sounds delicious!
Super easy and delicious!
Chicken was moist and flavorful.
Have already added this to my favorite recipes!!
Aww that’s awesome! Happy to hear that.
So GOOD and moist. PLUS easy and fast to prepare.Definitely will make again.
Awesome!!!
Succulently delicious 👌
Awesome!!!
I didn’t sear the chicken before baking and covered the pan with foil until the last five minutes. Served it over pasta. Super-easy and DELISH!!!
We also love serving it over pasta. So good!
Had our 10 year old make it for dinner. Very easy, tasted good, meat was tender.
That’s amazing!!!
Just delicious and easy to prepare!
Indeed they are 😉
My family’s new favorite recipe. I did make more of the butter mixture and added white wine, to increase the amount of sauce.
Love that you added white wine!
This is soooo good! Definitely a keeper!
Awesome!
I just cooked this, it was the juiciest chicken I think I’ve ever cooked in the oven. It was salty but not to salty and the garlic filled my house with a delightful smell.
Awesome!
One of my most favorite chicken recipes ever!!!
Indeed it is 😉 Thanks for stopping by!!
Outstanding recipe. Quick to put together, juicy chicken, tons of flavor. I didn’t have fresh parsley on hand, but I will next time. Use two potholders to take your cast iron out of the oven!
Awww that’s awesome!!
So far so good. Chicken is in the oven! Smells delicious 😋! Waiting anxiously until it’s done. I had to improvise because I ran out of Paprika so I used Cayenne Pepper 🌶 instead. I did my research and that or Chilli Pepper were a good option. I added dried chopped onions to the mixture for additional flavor. We’ll see… Seared the chicken breast and added the mixture. Yummy!
I think it’s going to be very good. A bit spicy but good. Please let me know how it turned out. Thank you
Just finished eating, we loved it! It will be on regular rotation at our house
That’s so good! Happy you liked it 😉
Great tasting chicken!
Indeed it is 😉
Hi do we have to use a cast iron?
No you don’t need to. But you need a stove to oven pan.
Delicious!! We make this dish at least once every week. And I’m sure to share it with anyone who will listen. Quick, easy and oh so yummy! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Happy to hear that. Thanks for stopping by.
I just made this. It was so good. I didn’t have any Olive oil so I used grapeseed. Thank you, it was such a great recipe.
You’re very welcome! So happy you enjoyed this recipe!
This was pretty good. I checked the chicken after 20 minutes and it was done, maybe a bit over done. I pounded mine thinner before though. I didn’t have fresh garlic or parsley but I will next time.
Yes add them next time to add more flavor! I am happy you liked it 😉
I prefer to bake chicken breast at 400F because the high temperature makes the chicken gets juicier and more flavourful.