Caesar Chicken is the perfect melt in your mouth chicken recipe! It’s creamy, simple, and filled with flavor. This easy baked chicken recipe only has 4 Ingredients and takes less than 30 minutes to make. It’s one of the absolute BEST weeknight dinners out there.
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Caesar Chicken Recipe
This Baked Caesar Chicken Recipe is an easy 4 ingredient recipe you can make any night. It’s the type of pantry recipe you can throw together in minutes and happily feed the whole family!
My absolute favorite thing in the world is easy chicken recipes. I have about a million of them, and I never get tired of making (or eating) them. This delicious melt in your mouth chicken is just another amazing recipe to add to the list!
This Creamy Chicken Bake only needs four ingredients and about half an hour in the oven to become the best dinner ever. Now that’s an amazing dish!
You’ll look like a chef with this dish, but this couldn’t be more simple. My absolute favorite type of easy weeknight meal to make on a whim. After you’ve made it once, you’ll remember it for a lifetime!
When I posted this recipe, it immediately took off and became one of the most popular on my site. It’s the type of recipe this site was built on…SIMPLE!
Melt in Your Mouth Chicken!
There’s nothing worse than dry and overcooked chicken. You won’t have that problem with this juicy recipe, because this melt in your mouth chicken is anything but dry. So moist, so creamy, so delicious! You’ll come out with the best chicken every time.
This Caesar Chicken recipe is sure to make you look good in front of your dinner guests. Even better, there’s only one dish to clean up, three ingredients to put away, and 5 minutes of prep. Perfection! For me, recipes just don’t get better than this.
4 Ingredient Chicken Bake
Creamy Caesar Chicken is the perfect EASY CHICKEN RECIPE to make for a crowd because you can spend time with friends instead of spending time in the kitchen.
This moist and tender chicken is as easy as smothering the chicken breasts in caesar dressing and parmesan cheese. The parmesan helps to thicken the sauce and it all bakes down to cheesy creamy perfection.
No need to even season the chicken because the caesar dressing already has enough flavor to go around!
Only 4 Ingredients:
- Chicken Breasts
- Caesar Salad Dressing (try my homemade recipe)
- Parmesan Cheese
- Sour Cream
How to Make Caesar Chicken
This baked chicken caesar recipe couldn’t be easier.
- Just place the chicken breasts in a baking dish,
- Smother it in a caesar dressing and sour cream mixture (SO creamy),
- Then bake chicken in the oven for about 30 minutes at 375°F.
- Broil the chicken at the end for just a couple of minutes,
- Then cover it and let it rest before serving.
Be sure to see the recipe card below for full ingredients & instructions!
Caesar Dressing
This baked caesar chicken would be nothing without the caesar dressing. Be sure to grab a creamy version of this dressing for ultimate goodness. It’s the creaminess that really makes this melt in your mouth chicken recipe absolutely perfect.
You can find my homemade caesar dressing recipe here (along with my classic caesar salad) if you prefer to make your own.
This chicken breast recipe is so easy to make, you can surely wow your guests any night of the week.
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Serving Suggestions
This Caesar Chicken Recipe can be eaten on its own, served over rice, served with sides like Herb Roasted Potatoes or Lemon Butter Asparagus, or shredded and turned into amazing nachos, tacos, sliders, and more! The possibilities are endless.
What is the best Internal Temperature for Baked Chicken?
The FDA is very clear that chicken should be cooked to an internal temperature of 165°F to avoid salmonella poisoning.
The Best meat thermometer!
I love using this meat thermometer for making sure the meat is at 165 degrees! Easy for beginners & totally worth the $10 cost!
Don’t forget to download my FREE printable Meat Temperature Chart for a handy reminder you can keep right in your kitchen.
What I love most about this easy chicken recipe is that the Caesar sauce covers the chicken, allowing it to cook but protecting it from drying out. It helps to bake the most perfect, moist, flavorful chicken breast. Completely and utterly fool proof. Truly MELT IN YOUR MOUTH.
Best Caesar Chicken Recipe
In my opinion, this really is one of the best chicken recipes. It hits all my main requirements: easy (less than 5 ingredients), fast (about 30 minutes to make), and delicious (MELT in your mouth chicken)!
The Caesar dressing sauce that covers this Creamy Caesar Chicken bake is SO amazing, and it’s perfect for eating on other things too. We especially love to serve it over Baked Potatoes!
I know your family will request melt in your mouth baked Caesar chicken time and time again. You’ll be secretly happy because you’re the only one that needs to know how easy it is. It can be our little secret.
Have a Caesar night in by pairing it with my Classic Caesar Salad or Chopped Chicken Caesar Salad Dip. Throw in some garlic bread and you are all set!
Be sure to see the recipe card below for full ingredients & instructions!
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We love to come up with easy chicken recipes! After you make this Creamy Chicken Caesar, be sure to make these other faves as well.
If you like this EASY Chicken Recipe you’ll especially LOVE our Ranch Baked Chicken with Bacon or Cheesy Southwest Baked Chicken. Same idea, different flavor!
If you make this recipe be sure to upload a photo in the comment section below or leave a rating. Enjoy!
Baked Caesar Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts boneless, skinless
- 1 cup Caesar salad dressing (click for homemade recipe)
- ½ cup sour cream (optional)
- 1-1½ cup Parmesan cheese grated
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375F and spray the inside of an 8″ x 11″ baking dish with cooking spray.
- If the breasts are uneven thickness, pound them (placed in a Ziploc bag and on a flat surface) to an even ¾”-1″ thickness using a meat pounder. Sprinkle the breasts (both sides) with grated Parmesan cheese & freshly ground black pepper, and place them in the prepared baking dish.
- Whisk together Caesar dressing and sour cream in a small bowl. Pour the Caesar/sour cream mixture over each breasts then sprinkle grated Parmesan cheese on top.
- Place the prepared chicken in the oven and bake at 375F for 30 minutes or until a meat thermometer inserted in the thickest part of one of the middle breasts reads 150°F.
- Turn the oven to broil and broil the breasts an additional 2-4 minutes or until the chicken turns golden brown. It can burn quickly, so watch it closely. When done, a meat thermometer should register 165F when stuck into the thickest part of one of the middle breasts. Remove from the oven, cover loosely with foil and allow chicken to rest 5-10 minutes before serving.
- If desired, garnish with chopped parsley.
Last step! Don’t forget to show me a pic of what you made! Upload an image or tag me @thecookierookie on Instagram!
Becky’s tips
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If I don’t have Parmesan cheese, can I use a different cheese? Also I wanted to use yogurt instead of sour cream. What do you think?
Yes! You can use Asiago, Pecorino Romano, Romano, Grana Padano, or even mozzarella. Plain yogurt should work in place of the sour cream as well!
This has become my favorite recipe & I share with everyone! My favorite side dish is to make a tri-color rotini pasta, and once the chicken has baked, I toss the pasta in the remaining sauce/drippings! (Sometimes I heat the pasta in the oven with the sauce, often I just serve it fresh as is!
Sounds delicious, Amber!
Delicious sliced over rice 👍
Glad you enjoyed it, April!
I made this last night and it was great. I used creamy Caesar and it did turn out somewhat oily but I dipped my bread in it and it tasted yummy! I had it with rice. I would definitely recommend this!
Thanks so much for sharing, Amy!
Can chicken thighs be used instead of breast?
Absolutely! I recommend boneless, skinless thighs.
We don’t care for caesar dressing. Could this be done with ranch or creamy Italian or something?
I think ranch would work well!
I’m a pretty seasoned cook and I couldn’t wait to make this.Sorry to say, I made it tonight and it had so much oil on it I had to use a turkey baster to siphon it off.I used an expensive brand of Caesar dressing and Daisy sour cream, even made a double batch so I could serve it over noodles.Not sure what went wrong.The chicken was nice and tender. Salvaged enough sauce to serve a meal.
I’m sorry this didn’t work out for you, Gerri!
I use maybe half the cheese ….
This was really good. Almost addicting. The flavors just went well together. I think I would try it over a noodle the next time because that sauce is so good
Ooh, that sounds wonderful, Lori!
This recipe is absolutely delicious. I made it with a side of rice. I will definitely be making this again. Thank you so much for sharing this delicious recipe!
Wonderful to hear! Thanks for sharing, Emily!
I planned on making this today, is there a crockpot version?
I don’t have a crockpot version, but I would advise you to add the chicken and caesar dressing to the crockpot and cook on low for 6-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours, stirring the cheese and sour cream in the last 20-30 minutes or so. You can also wait to add the cheese, pour the chicken into an oven-safe dish, and broil for a few minutes to get that bubbly cheese on top!