Perfect Baked Chicken.
You can cook Perfect Baked Chicken using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Perfect Baked Chicken
- You need 4 of Chicken Breast, boneless, skinless.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of Fine ground sea salt, (regular salt would work).
- You need 1/2 tsp of fresh cracked black pepper, (regular ground black pepper would work).
- It's 1/2 tsp of garlic powder.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of onion powder.
- You need 1/2 tsp of crushed red pepper (optional, if you don't like heat, leave it out).
- It's 1 tbsp of olive oil.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of butter.
Perfect Baked Chicken instructions
- Clean chicken by removing any fat, tendons, etc. Set aside..
- Mix spices in a bowl. Set aside..
- Preheat iron skillet, or dutch oven on stove top..
- Preheat oven to 400°F..
- Sprinkle spice mix on chicken, both sides..
- Put butter and oil in skillet and let get hot. Brown chicken on both sides letting it get a nice brown sear on it..
- Cover skillet or dutch oven with lid or aluminum foil and place in preheated oven..
- Let bake for 25 minutes or until juices run clear..
- This chicken can be eaten as is. Shredded for tacos, cut up and used in casseroles, etc..
- I got this recipe online a while back and modified it to my family's taste..
- This recipe calls for 4 boneless skinless breasts, but I used a pack of 3 large ones when I took these pictures. You could always adjust to what you have 2- 4 chicken pieces. Also, could use thighs, drumsticks, bone in, bone out, doesn't matter!!!.