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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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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This was such an easy recipe and so flavorful! Made it with egg noodles and poured the added leftover sauce from the chicken on it – so yummy!
SO so so yummy!
Made this last night and it was amazing! The chicken was juicy and tender. Loved the garlic butter sauce as well. This is a keeper in our dinner rotation for certain. Thanks!
So happy you liked this recipe. Yes the butter sauce is amazing! Thank you so much for leaving your comment!!
This dish is absolutely delicious and so easy!!! Thank you for posting it!
You’re very welcome!
Best recipe I’ve tried in long time. I added more butter and a little paprika with butter and seasoning mixture. My picky eaters gobble it up every time I make it. I’ve recommended to all my friends. So tasty and super easy which is a huge bonus.
Curious if you think recipe could be converted to a slow cooker? Any suggestion how to go about that!
This recipe is always a big hit with chicken. My son loves it.
Sorry I’ve never made this recipe in a slow cooker. Not sure if it would work, but if you try it please let me know how it turned out. Thanks a lot.
I made this dish and it was amazing. I added a bit more spice but followed everything else, chicken was very moist and tasty.
Oh yes chicken is so tender and juicy!
AMo essa delícia porque é super leve e saudável e sem falar do sabor 👏
Muito saborosa mesmo!
Could I transfer the chicken breasts to a glass baking dish after I sear the chicken? I’m going to be doubling the recipe.
Yes you absolutely can!
Can you make this with chicken thighs?
Yes you can!
Do you know what oven baked means? Frying it first is not oven baked. I need to make non fried foods for her health issue. Thanks for wasting my time.
Philip, I didn’t fry the chicken breast for this recipe. I only seared it for few minutes to give it a golden crust. At this point the chicken is still not cooked though. If you want, you can skip this step and place the chicken straight to the oven. Hope it helps.
Easy there sailor…..it’s just a sear. If (which I doubt) you can’t have olive oil there are plenty of options, and if your health is such a big concern I am sure you know what those options are.
The recipe has the work “butter” in it and you’re worried about a bit of olive oil for a sear? A pan sear and a deep fry and totally different things. Maybe you were having a bad day when you commented but it was a totally unnecessary thing to say.
Do you know what fried means? Searing something in a pan is not frying.
Great recipe! I adjusted recipe to make 4 chicken breasts. Took temperature after 25 minutes in oven (since skillet was crowded with 4). Temp was 175, but still sooo tender.
Great to hear that!
Amazing recipe, delicious and super easy !!!
What if I dont have a cast iron skillet? How can I adjust?
You can still be able to make this recipe with regular skillet that goes to the oven.
I made this and they’re right, it’s JUICY and FLAVORFUL!!! I’m subscribing to your recipes!!!
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Can I use dried parsley or scallions?
Yes you can!
I made this last night and we LOVED it! I stuffed the chicken with a blend of cream cheese, a tiny bit of Italian seasoning, paprika and Monterrey Jack. Holy moly, it was delicious!!
Wow that’s amazing!
This recipe has 2 different instructions on oven heat. At the start of it it says a breast cooked at 350 takes 20-30 min. In recipe it says preheat oven to 400 and cook 20-30 minutes. Mine was dry because of this but otherwise flavourful. I would make again but lower oven temp to 350. My breasts were medium in size.
it will depend on the size of you chicken breast. If it’s thick, you should cook at 400F, otherwise 350F is good.
I will try this recipe out and come back with my feedback but it looks delicious already I can’t wait to cook it for my hubby😉👌
Hope you guys enjoyed it very much 😉
I’ve been looking for a recipe very similar to this but I want to make it in a crockpot. It’s supposed to be 100° here today. Has anyone made this in the crock pot?
My first time making this and it was so so Delicious!!! My kids love it!!! And I had made vegetable rice as side dish!!! So glad I found your recipe!!!!! Can’t wait to try more other of your recipes
And I am so glad to hear this. Thanks for stopping by and for your comment 😉
Wow- this was so easy to make and I happened to have ingredients on hand so made it at the last minute. Delicious! It was hot here today, so instead of heating the oven I cooked in a pan on the grill outside at around 350 for 20 minutes.
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