Tender, juicy Garlic Butter Baked Chicken Breast, that’s packed with flavour from the garlic butter sauce. It’s totally a win win!
If you love juicy chicken breast, I’m sure you’ll love this Baked Chicken Breast recipe. My husband loves it too, especially because it’s cooked in garlic butter sauce. Who doesn’t love a buttery flavoured sauce?
This sauce gives more flavor to this baked chicken breast and helps it to be tender, moist and juicy too. This sauce is so good that you don’t need to even use a chicken marinade.
I promise that this chicken breast recipe will give you a good juicy chicken breast for dinner. So, don’t be afraid of baking chicken in the oven thinking that it’ll be dry and tasteless.
I also love this baked chicken breast recipe because it’s very quick and easy to make. No weird steps, no wrapping or brining needed. You don’t even need to pound the chicken breast with a rolling pin or meat mallet and you don’t need to use parchment paper either. The garlic butter sauce will bring all the flavors.
Garlic Butter Baked Chicken Breast
Tender, juicy Garlic Butter Baked Chicken Breast, that’s packed with flavour from the garlic butter sauce. It’s totally a win win!
Prep: 5min
Total: 30min
Yield: 3
Serving Size: 1 /3
Nutrition Facts: servingSize 1 /3, calories 377 kcal, Carbohydrate 1 g, Protein 41 g, Fat 25 g, Saturated Fat 12 g, Cholesterol 176 mg, Sodium 375 mg, unSaturated Fat 11 g
Ingredients:
- 3 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 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)
Instruction:
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Season chicken breast with salt, pepper, paprika and set aside.
- In a small bowl mix together paprika, butter, Italian seasoning, parsley, and garlic. Set aside.
- In a cast iron skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. When the skillet is really 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 20-30 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 before serving.
It’s so delicious that I cook this chicken breast almost everyday! Incredible fast and easy!
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