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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This is a family favorite here. We just love it and I make this several times a month.
Aww I’m so happy to hear this 😉
Chicken came out so moist and delicious!
That’s awesome. Yes it’s so tender and moist!
My husband is very picky, but he loved this dish! Thank you.
This is awesome!! happy he liked it.
Kind of bland.
I’m surprised to hear that since garlic and butter is one of the most flavorful sauce ever. Are you sure you use the right about of butter, garlic and salt?
Could you by chance have COVID? That would make sense!! This would have been bland if you omitted the garlic,herbs,and paprika!! In that case you clearly used a separate recipe. This is a recipe I always go back to. Please don’t comment if you didn’t follow the recipe.
I made this for my first time cooking and it came out amazing this shit good asl
lol amazing!
it was really good special the garlic, any more recipe with garlic.
Yes we have lots of garlic butter recipes. On the search bar just type “garlic butter” and you will see all the recipes with garlic.
ill use saltless and it still came out good.
This is definitely 5 stars! It is quick, easy and delicious!
So happy you liked it!
I have probably made his 50 times – it feels rich and moist like you’d get in a restaurant, tastes amazing. I don’t follow the amounts anymore I just use lots of butter and the spices listed, plenty of salt too. So good! Keeps my wife happy. Thanks so much for the recipe! Dinner in half an hour.
You’re very welcome. So happy you both enjoy this recipe. Thanks for stopping by and leaving this feedback 😉
Just made this! Yummy and my husband wants to add it to the rotation (yes I will!) I served it with rice but I bet mashed potatoes would be even better! Thank you!
That’s awesome. I’m happy to hear that!
Same instructions to follow if pan fried instead of baked ?
It’s better if you make this recipe with small pieces of chicken breast so it will cook well inside and you probably won’t burn the chicken.
This is the first time I’ve ever made chicken breast without it ending up too dry. They turned out perfectly – so delicious and easy peasy recipe to follow! Thank you❤️❤️❤️
This was absolutely delicious!! My husband doesn’t like baked chicken but loved this!!!
Awesome!
This is the first time I’ve ever made chicken breast without it ending up too dry. They turned out perfectly – so delicious and easy peasy recipe to follow! Thank you❤️❤️❤️
You’re very welcome! Happy you liked it!
Excellent recipe! Quick and easy and delicious too! I would post a picture but I didn’t take one and it’s all gone! Will definitely make this again! 5 ⭐️
Your comment made my day!
thanks
You’re welcome!
This is the first time I’ve made this chicken and it is to die for! It’s so tender and moist and the seasoning is spectacular.
I’m so glad you loved this recipe. I always make it and my family and I love it so much too!
The whole family loved this! It was easy and so delish! I have a very large family so after searing the chicken, I put them in a 13×9 and naked them. Cane out perfect! Thank you!
Happy to know that you and your family enjoyed this recipe!
Easy and smells terrific
yes it has a delicious smell.
Was good but inside needs seasonings too maybe need to marinade it in something first?
My family loved this
Easy to make.thank yo so much
Happy to hear that!
Oh my goodness, this is so delicious. I don’t have fresh parsley, so I used dried, but the entire technique and the ingredients make a very yummy dinner on top of egg noodles, with broccoli on the side. It is NOT bland.
mm.. sounds delicious!