What’s so special about oven baked chicken breast, you may ask?! Well, the “secret sauce” of this baked boneless chicken breast recipe shared with you today that’s responsible for producing incredible flavors and tender juicy meat…is the marinade!
If you’ve never marinated your oven baked chicken, now’s the time. It’s incredibly easy to make from scratch and well worth the extra preparatory step.
Serve your marinated chicken breast in oven with a side of roasted veggies, mashed potato or casserole. Perfect as an easy family meal or can be dressed up for special holiday meals!
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❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
- There are no complicated steps or processes required for making chicken breast marinade for baking. It’s a super easy recipe that even a newbie cook would find effortless!
- Marinating your chicken breast makes such a difference in flavor and increases the tender juiciness to the meat - you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it more often before.
- Baked boneless chicken breast pairs well with an array of side dish options, making your meal planning that much easier.
Everyone knows that baked chicken is a staple meal in most households but marinating the chicken breasts takes this recipe to an entirely new level of umami flavors that you’ll want to bookmark for your next family meal or holiday meal planning.
🛒 Ingredients
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Note: The full list of this Baked Lemon Garlic Chicken Breast recipe ingredients with their amounts and options are listed in the recipe card below.
- Fresh lemon juice
- Worcestershire Sauce
- Olive oil
- Fresh oregano -- you may also use dried
- Italian Parsley (fresh) -- you may also use dried
- Fresh basil -- use may substitute dried
- Garlic cloves
- Paprika
- Kosher Salt
- Black pepper
- Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
🗒 Instructions
Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Add all marinade ingredients to a medium bowl.
- Whisk until completely combined.
- Add chicken to a large resealable bag.
- Pour marinade over chicken, seal the bag, and refrigerate to chill for up to 4 hours.
- Remove from the refrigerator and allow it to sit at room temperature for 20-30 minutes while the oven preheats to 375℉. Then coat a 13X9-inch baking dish with a light drizzle of olive oil and transfer chicken to the dish.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 165℉.
- Remove the baking dish from the oven and let the chicken rest for 5 minutes before slicing.
- Slice, sprinkle with the fresh parsley, and serve immediately.
🔪 Equipment
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You’ll need the following items to make this recipe successfully.
- Lemon squeezer
- Sharp knife
- Non-skid cutting board
- Medium size mixing bowl
- Large Ziplock bag
- Baking dish 13X9-inch
- Liquid measuring cup
- Measuring spoons
- Dry measuring cups
- Whisk
🤔 FAQs
These are the questions we are most frequently asked about making Italian Herb marinated Oven Baked Chicken Breast.
It usually takes around 20-25 minutes at 350F. This also depends on the size of the chicken breast cooked. Larger chicken breasts could need up to 35-40 minutes to cook.
Some suggest that cooking chicken at a higher temperature for a shorter time produces more tender and juicy meat. That said, the temperature of 50F isn’t that drastic so I doubt that there’ll be a noticeable difference.
It’ll most likely cut the cooking time down by 3-5 minutes, so you’ll need to cook the chicken breasts for 20-22 minutes.
There won’t be much difference in cooking time here with just a 25F difference in temperature. You could perhaps expect to shave off about 2 minutes of cooking time, depending on your oven.
👩🏻🍳 Tips
- Using skinless and boneless chicken breasts is a great way of reducing any recipe preparation. It’s also much faster to cook than cooking skin-on, bone-in chicken. If you do opt to keep the skin on your chicken and use cuts of chicken with bone, you will need to adjust your cooking time and be careful not to burn the skin.
- Leftover oven baked chicken breast can be used in other meals such as pasta dishes, casseroles, chicken pot pies, chicken soup, or even as sandwich fillers. Either cut your chicken into cubes or shred it.
- Cooked chicken should reach an internal temperature of 165F. If you are ever in doubt, insert an instant-read food thermometer into the chicken.
- Chicken shouldn’t be marinated for over 12 hours, overwise the texture of the meat becomes stringy.
📚 Variations
- If you aren’t a person who enjoys marinated meat, you can certainly leave the marinade off your chicken. I do recommend though that you add some olive oil and simple seasoning to the baked boneless chicken breast.
- If you wish to cook your chicken in the slow cooker instead of the oven, feel free to do so. You’ll need to cook on Low for 3 hours and add about ¼ cup of chicken broth to the slow cooker pot.
- I’ve used skinless chicken breasts but I know that some people love crispy chicken skin. If you buy chicken breasts with skin on, you may wish to set the chicken to broil in the last 5 minutes of the baking time to crisp up the skin!
- This recipe works just as well with other cuts of chicken meat such as chicken thighs. Feel free to swap out the breasts for thighs or use a combination.
🥫 Storage
Baked boneless chicken breast can be stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container for 3-4 days.
You can also freeze this oven baked chicken breast for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator and incorporate it into other recipes.
📗 Related Recipes
Don’t you just love taste bud tantalizing meals that you can pop into the oven with minimal effort and maximum reward? Chicken is usually my-go apart from beef roast, roast pork, or roast turkey, of course.
If you’re looking to try other oven baked chicken recipes then be sure to have a look at my Easy Baked Lemon Garlic Chicken and Honey Soy Garlicky Baked Chicken Thighs - they’re both finger lick’n good!
🍽 Serve with
The great thing about this oven baked chicken breast is the fact that it pairs so well with so many side dishes. Consider adding Potatoes Au Gratin With Gruyere Cheese, Grilled Vegetables, Italian Hard Rolls, Roasted Rosemary Potatoes, or Farro And Peas.
And if you’re planning on serving some baked chicken breast for a special occasion like the holidays then including a serving of Italian Sausage Stuffing is a must!
📞 Chiacchierata (chat)
If you thought oven baked chicken breast was boring, think again! This marinated oven-baked chicken recipe is one of the simplest yet tastiest meals I've had the pleasure of serving to my family, and it can be made in under 30 minutes from marinated chicken to finish!
The marinade is loaded with fresh herbs and simple seasoning that have you coming back for seconds in no time at all!
And if you're looking for a special chicken dinner, be sure to check out our simply divine Chicken Marsala. It's better than what you'll find in any fine restaurant.
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📝 Recipe Card
Tender and juicy baked boneless chicken breast, marinated in a flavor-rich mixture will leave you with a mouth-watering winner-winner chicken dinner!
Next time try our sauteed chicken breast recipe with tomatoes and spinach. A quick, easy, and delicious dinner.
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📖 Recipe
Oven Baked Chicken Breast with Herb Marinade
Equipment Needed
Ingredients
Marinade
- ½ cup Lemon juice fresh
- 3 Tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
- ¼ cup Olive oil
- 2 Tablespoons Fresh oregano, minced may substitute 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- ¼ cup Fresh Parsley, minced and lightly packed may substitute 4 teaspoons dried parsley
- ¼ cup Fresh basil, minced and lightly packed may substitute 4 teaspoons dried basil
- 3 Cloves garlic, minced
- ½ teaspoon Paprika
- ½ teaspoon Kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon Black pepper
Chicken
- 4 Boneless, skinless, chicken breasts 8 oz. each
- Fresh parsley, finely chopped for garish optional
Instructions
- Add all marinade ingredients to a medium bowl and whish until completely combined.
- Add chicken to a large resealable bag.
- Pour marinade over chicken and seal the bag.
- Place the bag in the refrigerator to chill up to 4 hours.
- Remove from the refrigerator and set at room , 20-30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375℉.
- Set out a 13X9-inch baking dish and lightly drizzle with olive oil
- Transfer chicken to prepared baking dish.
- Discard the marinade.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 165℉.
- Remove the baking dish from the oven and let the chicken rest for 5 minutes before slicing.
- Slice, sprinkle with the fresh parsley, and serve immediately.
- Store leftovers in refrigerator in airtight container.
