Recipe: Perfect Chicken Breasts with Herb Basting Sauce

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Recipe: Perfect Chicken Breasts with Herb Basting Sauce
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Chicken Breasts with Herb Basting Sauce. "Chicken breasts basted with a medley of herbs. Can also be made with skinless, boneless meat." Turn chicken breasts in sauce to coat thoroughly. Place skin side up in a shallow baking dish.

Place skin side up in a shallow baking dish.

This super quick and easy seared skillet chicken topped with a delicious garlic and herb pan sauce that's sure to be a hit!

You get perfectly tender, moist chicken breasts and a sauce people will want to it by the spoonful!

You can cook Chicken Breasts with Herb Basting Sauce using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken Breasts with Herb Basting Sauce

  1. You need 3 T of olive oil.

  2. Prepare 1 T of minced onion.

  3. You need 1 clove of crushed garlic.

  4. It’s 1 tsp of dried thyme.

  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp of dried rosemary, crushed.

  6. You need 1/4 tsp of ground sage.

  7. It’s 1/4 tsp of dried marjoram.

  8. It’s 1/2 tsp of salt.

  9. It’s 1/2 tsp of black pepper.

  10. Prepare 1/8 tsp of hot pepper sauce.

  11. It’s 4 of chicken breasts, either bone-in with skin or boneless and skinless.

  12. It’s 1-1/2 T of chopped fresh parsley.

Split chicken breasts are one of the cheaper cuts of chicken, and they are extra juicy cooked on the bone!

This a simple recipe to make for weeknight dinners.

Here's why cooking split chicken breasts rocks.

Or at least, I highly recommend using butter.

Chicken Breasts with Herb Basting Sauce step by step

  1. Preheat oven to 425°F..

  2. In small bowl, prepare basting sauce by combining all ingredients except chicken and parsley..

  3. Turn chicken in sauce to coat thoroughly. Place in baking dish and cover..

  4. Roast 35-45 min. basting occasionally with pan drippings..

  5. Remove chicken to warm platter. Spoon pan juices over chicken and sprinkle with parsley..

It adds great flavor and helps give a nice golden crust on the outside.

And of course, feel free to also toss the chicken breasts with your favorite sauces (once they have been baked).

Roast Low and Slow for Tender Chicken.

This time I combined the butter with a trio of herbs and slathered it over two bone-in, skin-on split chicken breasts.

The breasts were quite large, so I lowered the heat a bit and let them roast even longer before removing the cover.