Garlic Butter and Lemon Baked Chicken Breasts

Hey guys, so today we’re gonna be making some garlic butter and lemon baked chicken breasts. It’s so flavorful and super easy to make so let’s get started. So you want to take your chicken breast and slice it in half.

Why You’ll Love This

It’s so flavorful and super easy to make.
This is a very easy, but so delicious recipe. Super easy to make.
Dinner ready in like 30 to 40 minutes. So easy to make and super delicious.

Ingredients

• chicken breast (four pieces)
• olive oil (a little bit)
• salt
• black pepper
• Italian seasoning
  • oregano
  • dried parsley flakes
  • dried thyme leaves
  • rosemary
• chili powder
• garlic powder
• adobo seasoning
• nonstick cooking spray
• onions (about half of an onion)
• fresh thyme (a few sprigs)
• fresh rosemary leaves
• lemon slices (about four slices)
• butter (about four to five tablespoons)
• minced garlic (a few cloves)
• freshly chopped cilantro

Instructions

1. Take your chicken breast and slice it in half. Going down the middle lengthwise.
2. Wash and clean the chicken.
3. Use paper towel to pat dry the chicken really well to remove any extra water on it.
4. Drizzle my chicken with some olive oil.
5. Season the chicken with salt, black pepper, Italian seasoning, chili powder, garlic powder, and adobo seasoning.
6. Season all sides of each pieces of your chicken.
7. Once seasoned, cover it and let it marinate for at least 30 minutes.
8. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
9. Get your baking dish and spray the baking dish with some nonstick cooking spray.
10. Slice up some onions, about half of an onion, and place that into the bottom of your baking dish.
11. Add in a few sprigs of fresh thyme and fresh rosemary leaves.
12. Take the seasoned pieces of chicken and place it into the baking dish on top of the fresh herbs and the onion.
13. Take a few lemon slices and place it on top of the chicken.
14. Place the chicken into the oven at 375 degrees and bake it for about 20 minutes.
15. While the chicken is baking, prepare the garlic butter sauce.
16. Get a saucepan or a frying pan and over medium low heat add in a few tablespoons of butter.
17. Add in some minced garlic into the pot with the butter.
18. Add some freshly chopped cilantro.
19. Give that a good stir and let it cook for about three minutes over low heat medium low heat.
20. Once the garlic softens for about three minutes or so, turn off the stove.
21. After about 20 to 25 minutes, this is my chicken.
22. Take the garlic butter sauce we just made and pour it all over your chicken on top of it.
23. Make sure you pour everything in there the garlic the parsley the butter everything into the chicken.
24. Put it back into the oven to finish baking for about 15 more minutes.

Cooking Tips

If you don’t have Italian seasoning on hands, you can use oregano dried parsley flakes dried thyme leaves rosemary any of those Kinds of seasoning will work perfectly to replace the Italian seasoning.
You want to use paper towel to pat dry the chicken really well to remove any extra water on it.
Drizzle in a little bit of olive oil that is gonna help the seasoning to stick really well on the chicken.
You want to season all sides of each pieces of your chicken.
Once seasoned you can cover it and let it marinate for at least 30 minutes.
Spray the baking dish with some nonstick cooking spray to prevent the chicken from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
Try to use fresh thyme and rosemary in this dish cuz it’s gonna smell so good while it’s cooking and it’s gonna taste so good when it’s done.
You don’t want it on high heat because then the garlic is gonna burn on you. So you want it on medium to medium low heat to allow the garlic to take its time and like release this flavor into the butter.
If you want you could give it a mix in the sauce if you’d like.
The chicken if you’re using a thermometer the chicken needs to be at 165 degrees to be fully cooked.

Serving Suggestions

Take the chicken let it cool for a few minutes then slice it up and serve.

The sauce below the chicken with the onions is just as flavorful. And yeah, you guys that is it for this recipe dinner ready in like 30 to 40 minutes. So easy to make and super delicious.