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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Baked Chicken Breast Recipe
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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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Chicken was delicious and easy to make with ingredients I already had in the house. My husband loved it too. Thank you for making great tasting cooking so easy.
Thanks for the great feedback. I appreciate it 😉
A great find on the net…it met my #1 requirement – Ihad all of the ingredients ( or their equivalent) in my kitchen! Easy to prepare, made the house smell delicious and very tasty! Served it over veggie rotini with grilled asparagus in the side…yum!
So happy you like it. This recipe is so flavourful and perfect to feed the whole family 😉
Wow!! I am a husband that doesn’t do much cooking but this was so easy and tasty!!!! Thank you for sharing!
Awesome!
really good chicken tasted weird but once you add the butter sauce it tasted much better the butter sauce
is really good with pasta
This chicken was absolutely delicious. My husband and and I had it with a salad and asparagus. Lip smacking good, not to mention low carb. 😋
Happy to hear that. This is my absolutely favorite way to cook chicken breast!
It is a “keeper”, my husband and I love it, we used fresh herbs from the garden and ghee oil.
Thank you!
Awesome!
My teen son chose this recipe and LOVED it! The chicken was so moist and flavorful. Will definitely keep in the dinner rotation.
It’s always great when our kids love what we make for dinner, right? Happy you guys enjoyed it!
Great recipe! The cook times are near perfect and the seasoning is very flavorful yet not too heavy. I used ghee this time around, but excited to use butter and maybe a tad bit more garlic. My wife and I loved this. Thanks for an excellent, easy chicken recipe!
You’re very welcome! Happy you liked it!
Excellent recipe! I never leave comments for recipes but I had to for this one. It is delicious!
So happy you liked it!
This was easy and SOOOO yummy w butter garlic!
Thanks 😍
You’re welcome!!
This is the best chicken I’ve ever had. Even my husband, who has the palate of a toddler, gobbled it up and asked me to start making it regularly.
Thanks for your feedback. Happy to hear that!
OMG HYSTERICAL!! palate of a toddler!! lol hahahahaha!!
I’ve been searching high and low for a recipe suited for my toddler palate husband. Guess I found the one lol.
Lol it’s so nice. I’m happy that you’re picky husband enjoyed this recipe 😉
I tried this recipe and it was fantastic!
Amazing!
I was a bit disappointed because I know I could’ve made it better, but my wife who doesn’t prefer white meat LOVED it. I added a cup of spinach right on top of chicken the final five minutes in oven which was good. I know I will love it when I make it for a second time in a few weeks when I clean up my two errors. Very tender white breast – thank you!
Great! Happy your wife loved it 😉
I love this recipe. I’ve made it several times. I’ve been adding veggies to the skillet and getting them mixed up in the butter sauce before putting it in the oven. Turns it into a great one pan dish.
Amazing!
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Sorry about that. We just removed the video popup on the site and also another popup. It should be much better to navigate on the site now. Hope it helps. Thanks for your feedback!
I agree, tons of pop ups! Great chicken though!
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Awesome and so easy to make. Thank you for all the recipes and ideas.
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Wow this recipe was fantastic! I got a high five and a very satisfied and full hubby. We both loved it and i’m putting this in our recipe rotation ! Thank you!
I did omit the paprika due to person preference and I seasoned the chicken with the Italian season before searing it instead of putting it in the butter. Also added 2 extra garlic cloves. So yuuummy!
That’s absolutely amazing! So happy to hear this 😉
This chicken was amazing!! I had some trouble with the minced garlic burning, however. I might try adding garlic powder to the butter mixture next time or adding the minced garlic on top of the chicken for the last 5 minutes or so.
Fast, easy and delish! A triple play! My family loved it… Thank you for a recipe that wasn’t the same old, same old…
You’re very welcome!!!!
Do you melt the bUtter before adding the minced garlic?
yes I do!
This was a really good recipe, very flavorful!
Happy you liked it!
Absolutely love this recipe, my husband said “ that was restaurant quality” so that’s a plus lol
That’s awesome!!! Thanks!
Absolutely fantastic! My family loves this. I do also add a smiggin of zest of lemon. Just zest before going into the oven. Freshens and brightens up the dish. This is definitely my go to recipe and just add something extra occassionally. Thank you!
Oh yes it’s fresh and bright! We love this recipe too!
This was spectacular, Packed with so much flavor. This is my new favorite dish, And it was so easy to make.
Your feedback made me so happy!