Creamy Baked Caesar Chicken

This Baked Caesar Chicken Recipe is such an easy dinner to make, yet is so flavorful! It is a great dinner recipe for any night of the week. Tender chicken breasts are smothered in a Homemade Caesar style cream sauce. It only takes a handful of simple ingredients and dinner is ready in about 30 minutes. The whole family will love it!

There is nothing better than an easy chicken recipe for dinner! If you love this Creamy Caesar Chicken Bake you will also love this Baked Artichoke Chicken Salad, Chicken Parmesan and French Onion Chicken!

Why This Recipe Is So Great

• Chicken breasts bake up perfectly tender and juicy in just about 30 minutes.
• Instead of sour cream we use a Greek yogurt for a few less calories.
• The Caesar sauce is an easy homemade cream sauce for the chicken. Just stir together the mayo, yogurt, Dijon, garlic, capers, lemon juice, zest and spices.
• Making the sauce is the only real “work” in this recipe.
• Top the chicken with the Caesar sauce and bake- that’s it!

Ingredients

Here are the things you need to make this Caesar Chicken, plus some tips on a few ingredients:

Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

Chicken breasts can tend to be irregular thickness and can sometimes be very thick. I recommend slicing your chicken breasts in half, lengthwise, so you end up with two thinner chicken breasts. It creates an even cooking chicken, that is done in about 25 minutes at 350 degrees.

If you already have thin or smaller chicken breasts do not worry about this step.

Mayo

Mayonnaise is the base for the Caesar sauce so make sure to buy a quality mayo. We love Hellmann’s.

Step by Step Picture Instructions

There are really just two parts to this recipe- making the sauce and baking the chicken, so let’s get started:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

In a mixing bowl measure out the Greek yogurt, mayo, Dijon mustard, fresh garlic, lemon zest, lemon juice, capers, salt & pepper. Whisk it all together until it is well combined.

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Remove about ⅓ of the Caesar sauce to a separate bowl and save for serving.

If you have really thick chicken breasts go ahead and cut them in half, lengthwise, giving you two thinner breasts.

Season both sides of the chicken with a little salt & pepper.

Add about 3 tablespoon of the Caesar sauce to the bottom of your baking dish.

Place your chicken breasts on top of the sauce in the baking dish. Pour the remaining Caesar sauce over the top of the chicken.

Pop into the oven, uncovered, for 25-30 minutes until the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees at it’s thickest part.

We highly recommend using a Thermoworks Thermapen in your kitchen to gage the temperature of all proteins!

Turn the oven on to broil for a final 2 minutes, until the top is a light golden brown in spots.

Make Ahead

You can absolutely prep this recipe a couple days ahead.

Make the Caesar Cream Sauce and pop it in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 2 days.

Cut and season the chicken breasts and also keep in the fridge.

When it is time to eat just assemble the recipe in a baking dish and pop in the oven.

Serving

Serve your Baked Caesar Chicken hot, with the additional sauce on the side.

Serve with mashed potatoes (or instant pot mashed potatoes), rice pilaf or risotto, and a green veggie like roasted asparagus or green beans.

Recipe Tips

• Zest the lemon before you squeeze the juice.
• Cut your thick chicken breast in half, lengthwise, giving you 2 thinner chicken breasts.
• Buy good quality chicken, it makes a difference! Look for an “air chilled” chicken, we like Smart Chicken.
• Use good quality mayonnaise! We like Hellmann’s.

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This recipe was inspired by the Barefoot Contessa recipe for Caesar Swordfish.