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One of the best chicken breast recipes in oven is bake chicken breast with Parmesan cheese. These juicy and tender chicken breasts are marinated with olive oil and garlic-lemon seasonings. So delicious!
Table of Contents
- Chicken Breast Recipes
- Baked Chicken Breast
- What Temperature For Oven Baked Chicken Breasts
- How Long Does It Take To Bake Chicken Breasts
- Secrets For Juicy And Tender Chicken Breast
- Frequently Asked Questions
- What To Serve With Parmesan Baked Chicken Breast
- Other Recipes That You Might Like
- Parmesan Baked Chicken Breasts Recipe
Chicken Breast Recipes
Everyone loves chicken breast and I am always developing delicious, easy chicken breast recipes for quick and healthy weeknight dinner.
Nothing screams winner winner chicken dinner more than juicy, moist and tender chicken breast recipes.
This Parmesan baked chicken needs to be on your dinner rotation.
Baked Chicken Breast
Chicken is one of the most popular chicken recipes, for lunch or dinner.
Everyone loves chicken breasts and always have them in the refrigerator.
Secondly, baking chicken breast in the oven is so easy and quick, with very short active time.
However, not all baked chicken breast recipes turn out the same way.
Many people under-season the chicken, and/or baking the breasts for too long, resulting in dry, tough, rubbery and tasteless meat.
So how to bake them?
Here is one of the best boneless chicken breast recipes that you have to try!
What Temperature For Oven Baked Chicken Breasts
To seal in the juice and ensure moist, juicy and tender chicken breasts, you want to bake the chicken in a pre-heated oven at 400 degrees.
How Long Does It Take To Bake Chicken Breasts
Not all chicken breasts are the same size or thickness. Some are thicker and some are leaner; also bone-in and boneless.
As a general rule of thumb, to bake boneless chicken breast, it takes about 20-30 minutes, depending on how big and thick the breasts are.
The internal temperature for properly cooked chicken (regardless of the parts of the chicken) is 165° Fahrenheit or 75° Celsius.
To test the temperature, use a meat thermometer.
Insert it into the thicken part of the chicken breasts. If it reaches 165°F, it’s done.
Secrets For Juicy And Tender Chicken Breast
My Parmesan baked chicken breasts are juicy, with the juice seeping out from the meat.
Here are my tips and tricks for juicy baked chicken breasts:
- Marinate the chicken with olive oil. Olive oil seals in the juice of the chicken, making the surface moist and the inside extremely juicy.
- Use lemon juice as part of the marinade. If you marinate the chicken breasts with all dry ingredients, they will turn out dryer. Use lemon juice to marinate and your chicken will be moist and bursting with amazing flavors.
- Remove the chicken immediately from the oven as soon as they are done. Do not leave them inside as the remaining heat in the oven will continue to cook the chicken. This is the number 1 reason for dry, tough, rubbery and over-cooked oven baked chicken breasts.
Frequently Asked Questions
This recipe is only 498 calories per serving.
What To Serve With Parmesan Baked Chicken Breast
Serve this dish as a main or with side dishes. For a wholesome meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
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Parmesan Baked Chicken Breasts
Ingredients
- 1 lb. (500g) skinless and boneless chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1.5 tablespoons garlic powder
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- ground black pepper
- 3 dashes cayenne pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon salt , or more to taste
- 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- lemon wedges, for serving
Instructions
- Marinate the chicken breasts with olive oil, garlic powder, lemon juice, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and salt. The marinade will be pasty, not liquidy, as shown in the picture below.
- While the chicken breasts are marinating, preheat the oven to 400°F (207°C).
- Top the marinated chicken breasts evenly with the grated Parmesan cheese. Bake the chicken for about 20–30 minutes, or until a meat thermometer registers 165°F (74°C) when inserted into the thickest part of the breasts.
- Remove the Parmesan baked chicken from the oven and serve immediately with fresh lemon wedges, squeezing the juice over the chicken for extra flavor. You may also serve the chicken with your favorite hot sauce.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
What is the green sprinkled on top? Parsley or scallions?
Thanks! I am excited to make this.
Chopped parsley. Thanks and please try my recipe! :)
This was super easy and super good!
I made this two nights ago. I thought I read the recipe wrong when I saw 1 1/2 T garlic powder. I did it anyway. I can’t have salt, so left it out, don’t like pepper, so it was out, and cayenne,, really don’t like spicy hot, left it out. I didn’t have parmesan so used Italian blend shredded cheese.
It was fabulous! Nice and juicy,, the cheese forms a wonderful crust. Then there is the liquid at the bottom. I served it over Rice Medley from Trader Joe’s and put some of that liquid on the rice. It really is one of my favorite ways to do chicken now. Love the being able to bake it and forget it for 20 – 30 minutes. Thanks Bee!!!!
Hi Terry, thanks for trying my chicken breasts recipe. I am so glad that it worked out and you enjoyed the recipe.
Was delicious. Quick and easy. Nice change of pace.
Hi Karen, thanks for trying my chicken breast recipe. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
How long can you marinate?
You can marinate for a few hours or overnight.
Should I put the marinade on only the top or both sides?
One top is fine. It will drip down to the sides. :)
This came up in my google search and it was very very good. Will definitely make again.
Hi Angela, thanks for trying my baked chicken breasts, please try more recipes on my site, all very very good and easy: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Thinking of making this tonight. Just wondering why you say not to use bottle parmesan cheese. That is all I have. How will that change the outcome if I go ahead and use it. Thanks
Karen – you can use bottled Parmesan cheese but it won’t taste as good.
We tried this tonight exactly as written and it was FANTASTIC! We make chicken about 4 times a week and it’s never been this good. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
You say put Parmesan on top of chicken. Not all over the chicken? Shouldn’t the marinade make the Parmesan adhere to full breasts?
On top of the chicken, please view the cooking video and the photos in the recipe card.
Made last night in another attempt to make “non-boring chicken breasts”. I’d say it was a success. Very tasty stuff! Followed the recipe to a T and did have one comment – the marinade as listed above was nowhere near a paste, but indeed a liquid, albeit a thick one. Still provided great flavor but most of it pooled off to the bottom of the baking dish during cooking.
My question – any tips on tweaking the marinade ingredient volumes to better achieve a paste consistency? My thought was to knock both the olive oil and lemon juice down to 1tbsp versus 2tbsp. Maybe use another kind of olive oil? While I was making it, I considered just adding more garlic powder & salt until it turned into a paste, but didn’t want to overpower things.
Either way, it was really good and I will echo the author’s sentiments about how juicy a simple marinade makes the chicken. Easily the juiciest boneless/skinless breasts I’ve ever had come out of the oven!
Hi Ben thanks for trying my recipe. My marinade turned into a paste like texture, like my pictures in the recipe card. I won’t change anything, if you reduce the lemon juice and olive oil the chicken won’t be moist. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Thanks for the speedy reply! Yes, I wouldn’t want to compromise the juicy factor, that was one of the best parts. And just to clarify, I wasn’t suggesting that you change the recipe as listed on the website just because one guy (me) who only made the dish once ended up with liquidy marinade :) I was only looking for tips on thickening it up. Do you put yours in the fridge for a few minutes after making it or anything? I will definitely be making it again and will make sure I do use the right amount of marinade ingredients, and will be sure to report back if it comes out differently the second time around. Like I mentioned in my original post, it was certainly a thick liquid, but after spooning it onto the chicken, if I tipped the pan it would slowly run off. I’m wondering if the type of olive oil I used was less viscous than average. But hey, at the end of the day it was totally delicious and super juicy so consider me plenty satisfied either way!
You need to pat dry the chicken with paper towels. It sounds like your chicken was wet.
Loved this! I am not a cook, and I feel like I really dont belong in a kitchen most of the time, but this recipe was amazingly simple but delicious! I’ve googled ‘easy’ chicken dishes, and not very many are very simple or have low key poorman ingredients. This was simple, easy, and easily the best dish I’ve made. I’m just so stoked, thanks a bunch!
Hi Ash, thanks so much for trying my baked chicken breasts. Please try more recipes on my site, all easy and good: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
I made this tonight. It was unanimously delicious. I had to swap lemon for tangerine and marinated in a ziplock and squished the mix all over. I didn’t see the video of you spreading it atop.
The chicken was gratuitously juicy. I also made Spaghetti with Oil and Garlic (Aglio Et Olio). I didn’t make greens and regretted not having brocolli to mix it up a bit.
Thank you for making a delicious dinner possible with your recipe.
Hi Randy, awww thanks for your sweet comment. I am so happy that you enjoyed this baked chicken breasts recipe. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/