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.
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! You can also jump to recipe.
Baked Caesar Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1½ cups freshly grated Parmesan cheese divided
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup Caesar salad dressing (click for homemade recipe)
- ½ cup sour cream (optional)
Equipment
- 8×11½-inch Baking Pan
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F and spray the inside of an 8×11½-inch baking pan with nonstick spray.
- If the breasts are uneven thickness, pound them (placed in a ZiplocK bag and on a flat surface) to an even ¾-1-inch thickness using a meat pounder.4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- Sprinkle the breasts (both sides) with 1 cup of grated Parmesan cheese and all of the freshly ground black pepper, and place them in the prepared baking dish.1½ cups freshly grated Parmesan cheese, ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Whisk together Caesar dressing and sour cream in a small bowl. Pour the Caesar/sour cream mixture over each breasts then sprinkle the remaining ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese on top.1 cup Caesar salad dressing, ½ cup sour cream
- Place the prepared chicken in the oven and bake at 375°F 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 165°F 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
- Do NOT salt the chicken.
- If you find that the sauce seems to curdle, try mixing 1 tablespoon of all-purpose flour into the dressing/sour cream mixture before adding it to the chicken.
Nutrition Information
This is absolutely wonderful! We make it all the time and it is requested by visiting family members constantly.
I am sorry that you have people commenting/rating that haven’t even made it, or complaining about calories and oil that is obviously based on the dressing that THEY THEMSELVES chose to use! Shake my head…Thank you for your time in managing your page!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Ron! Thanks so much for stopping by!
I made this recipe last night after coming across it in my pins. I forgot how amazing it is and my husband absolutely loved it. It’s so easy and the chicken came out tender and juicy. I didn’t broil the chicken it browned on its own and I didn’t rest the chicken either we were super hungry and it turned out perfect!!!
I’m so glad you rediscovered and still love this recipe, Kandi!!
I am only commenting to see what I did wrong but the sauce was all seperated and grainy looking
It sounds like the sour cream/dressing mixture may have gotten too hot. Depending on the brand of dressing you choose, this may happen more or less easily. The best way to prevent it is to add a tablespoon of flour to the mixture!
this is actually SO good & SO easy to make!!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Jacee!
I’m leaving 3 stars. The recipe is great, the problem is “they” are adding so much water to the chicken breasts that they are boiling in the oven, not baking. I will try pan going the chicken first next time to remove the water.
Hi Kerril, there shouldn’t be any water added to the chicken breasts, just dressing and sour cream! The fat from both of those should help brown the chicken in the oven!
This Ceasar chicken recipe turned out soo good!!!! The only thing I did extra. was after I pounded my chicken. I soaked it in milk with a few shakes of salt in it for 6hr..Then baked it following your recipe!!!!I also used Paul Newman’s Ceasar dressing..and omitted the sour cream…Oh my it was soo tender and good…Thanks again!!!!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Linda!
Made this for Christmas dinner it was so good my son licked his plate clean. Will definitely make this again.
I’m so happy to hear that!
Can this be prepared and then frozen before cooking?
I don’t recommend freezing it, as the sour cream will separate and become grainy once thawed.
I added sautéed chopped onion and minced garlic! Superb so much flavor. Add the onion and garlic! Wow!
Thanks for sharing, Ruthie!
Fantastic! Absolutely delicious! I served this over angel hair pasta. Being someone who is not a very good cook, my husband gets concerned whenever I attempt to make something new. He liked this a lot. I loved it! It’s rare when we both like a dish.
I’m so happy to hear that, Christina!