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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Baked 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!
More Chicken Recipes
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!
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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Outstanding, my entire family loved it, EVEN my chicken hating husband, THANK YOU so very much
Yay!! I’m so happy you all enjoyed this meal!
Can you make it in the crockpot?
Yes, that would still work!!
Made this last night on a whim. Sooo good! My fiancé loved it as well. Made a cauliflower rice medley and some mashed zucchini…a night of firsts. Lol! Thanks for the recipe!
That sounds absolutely delicious!!
This recipe is to die for !
Thank you, Julie!!
Can this be grilled?
The sauce can be a little messy! Maybe on stovetop, but the grill could be a mess!
Mine is on the oven right now! So easy & stress free dinner… thank you for a lovely recipe!
I hope you enjoyed it!!
So delicious! I love chicken but trying to figure out different ways to dress it up is difficult. A couple tips:
Let it sit for 10 minutes. I know the recipe calls for it but seriously don’t skip this step. We dug right in and the chicken was good, but the chicken left sitting for 10-15 mins (we had seconds) was even better. To my dismay the sour cream I had expired so I used Greek yogurt – it was great. It went very well with stuffing and green beans.
Those are awesome tips! Thanks, Lindsey!
Making tonight, but we’re Bone in chicken people, so doing leg quarters
I hope you enjoyed it!!
my kids just said its their favorite dish of all time
That’s always the best!!
Can I use store bought Caesar dressing
Yes, absolutely!!