Baked Chicken Breast
The summer season is almost fully upon us, so what better way to lose those extra pounds eh?! ‘Neways, for the longest time, I was never keen on cooking chicken breasts, because I baked them right away and after cooking, I felt they always had this raw taste to it.
Well, rewind to sometime last year and during one of my usual experimentation’s, I finally figured out how to bake chicken breasts properly, really straightforward too!
To bake chicken breasts, here’s what you’ll need:
1 3-pack chicken breasts OR 3 chicken breasts
5-7 tbsps Weber roasted garlic and herb seasoning (or any other brand of garlic & herb seasoning)
2 tsps Curry powder (just for color)
Cooking oil spray
1. Lightly rinse chicken breasts. Cut off any fat. Cut each chicken breast into 2 or 3 pieces, put in a bowl. Add seasonings, rub into chicken well.
2. Put bowl of chicken in fridge for about 45 minutes (less if you’re in a hurry- at least 15 minutes).
3. Preheat a dry fry pan over medium heat. Spray a generous amount of cooking oil spray. Pan-fry chicken on both sides (*just the outer part will cook*), about 2-3 minutes on each side.
~At this point, preheat oven to 350 degrees~
4. Once both sides are pan fried, let cook another 5-7 minutes or until it *looks* mostly cooked with pink centers (like below).
5. Spray chicken breasts with cooking oil spray. Put fry pan into oven (you can use a baking pan layered with foil if you prefer). Let bake on the top layer of your oven rungs for 20-25 minutes (at 20 min mark, you can flip chicken). Turn oven off, leave chicken in for about 5 minutes for the juices to settle.
Voila!
Serve alone, cut up in a sandwich or with a salad. I ate this alone with some dressing; I like to mix Raspberry Walnut Vinaigrette and Light Ranch dressings to make a custom dressing, tangy, but I like it.
The dressing looks like a yogurt mix in the above mix, but I promise it’s my mixed dressings, really. However, that’s an idea! I’ve never eaten chicken breasts with yogurt before, but I imagine it won’t be bad at all, might just have to try that. Oh yeah, and I changed those little dressing bowl holders because I couldn’t decide which color I preferred, minor behind the scenes issue.
The Weber garlic & herb seasoning, I got from Sam’s Club. If you’ve ever been to a Costco’s or wholesale store, they always have little stands set up throughout the store where attendants are usually giving away bite sizes of something they’re promoting. The seasoning was being promoted, I tried the grilled chicken and man oh man, it tasted really good, so my friend and I got one each.
It’s the perfect blend of spices (minus pepper), there’s no need for Knorr cubes or anything like that. It’s a dry rub with minced garlic, salt and other spices. I didn’t add dried pepper as I don’t like heat on my chicken breasts, totally odd, I know.
If you can’t find it, try another brand, and if it’s not so good, you can always tweak it by adding some dried pepper, curry powder, adobo seasoning and knorr or maggi cubes.
Enjoy…
Baked Chicken Breast,
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Lovely tutorial, nice pics too. No heat on chicken breasts? Very odd indeed, lol.
thanks! yes o, no heat on chicken breasts, very weird considering all the pepper i like to eat!
i shall try this out as usual!
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Happy Belated Birthday again!!
Thanks for sharing the recipe and also for the photos! At least I know now what to expect when I try it.
Hey baby crib!
Hope you enjoy when you try it out :)
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mmmm….delicious!! Tried this as soon as i read it. My boyfriend loved it too! This is now 1 of our firm favourite chicken recipes. Going to make it again this weekend. Thanks alot! You are a great cook :)
Hi Selima!
Yay! Glad you both enjoyed it…
You’re very welcome and thank you!!! :)
Hi yets,is der a substitute for d garlic and herb seasoning,somthing one can easily get in naija?
Hey Amaka!
I think any all purpose seasoning should work fine as well, and if you’re not able to come across that you can make your own garlic/herb seasoning: just chop up some fresh garlic and mix it with 1 or 2 maggi/knorr cubes and rub it into the chicken!
Hope that helps!
Thanks yets my love,knew i could always count on u. Wat of d adobo seasoning,u use it in many of ur recipes,any substitute?
:) You know, I haven’t used Adobo in any of the more recent recipes, as a few people had emailed, asking where they could get it. Since people were having a hard time coming across that particular ingredient, I stopped using it and started using ingredients I knew would be more readily available.
However, Adobo is simply an all purpose seasoning. When you use it, you can pretty much skip most other seasonings as it has salt, and you can even get the one with pepper. If you have seasonings like Knorr/Maggi cubes, you don’t need to worry about not having it.