Baked Chicken Breast

sliced chicken on a plate with salad behind it

This baked chicken breast is so simple to make and has a homemade marinade to bring tons of flavor to your chicken. Marinated chicken that is baked to perfection. This is the best-baked chicken recipe.

Course Dinner

Cuisine American

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 40

Additional Time 5

Total Time 55

Servings

Calories 388kcal

Author Kelsey

Ingredients

Supplies

Ingredients for Marinated Chicken

5-6 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
1/3 cup olive oil
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
1 1/2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
[1/2 teaspoon white pepper]
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 teaspoon water
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon paprika

Instructions

Grease your 9x13 baking dish with oil. Place your chicken in the pan.
Now you are going to work in the chicken marinade. In a small bowl add your oil, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, and mix up.
Put your brown sugar in a bowl alone and microwave for 15-20 seconds. You want to melt the brown sugar.
Pour the sugar into the bowl with the other ingredients and add the remaining ingredients. Pepper, salt, onion powder, garlic, water, paprika.
Pour the liquid marinade over the chicken and cover the dish and place in the fridge. Refrigerate your marinated chicken for 30 minutes up to overnight.
When you are ready to bake, preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Place chicken in the oven and cook for 30 minutes.
Flip the chicken over and bake another 5-10 minutes or until your chicken is fully baked and reads 165 degrees internally.
Allow the marinated baked chicken to rest for 5-10 minutes before you slice and serve up the chicken.

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Notes

You can make up the marinade and freeze it with the chicken to create a freezer meal if you would like. Thaw in the fridge the night before you want to bake. Pour chicken and all the marinade into the pan when you bake.

Chicken needs to reach 165 degrees internally to be completely cooked. Depending on the thickness of your chicken the cooking time will vary.

You can use any of your favorite marinades if you don't want to make a homemade marinade. Just follow directions on the container for how long to bake.

You can toss this chicken on the grill at 425 degrees and grill if you would prefer grilled chicken over baked.

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