Garlic Yogurt Baked Chicken is a flavorful, delicious baked chicken recipe perfect for weeknight dinner. These chicken breasts marinated in yogurt with garlic and thyme are so good they’re bound to become your new favorite din din!
AN EASY AND FLAVORFUL BAKED CHICKEN RECIPE
Baked Chicken can often be dry, but thanks to my wonderful yogurt marinade with garlic and thyme, our chicken breasts are not only moist and tender, but they are also super flavorful!
The marinade takes just a couple minutes to put together and creates an absolute amazing flavor. I like to marinate the chicken breasts anywhere from 2 to 6 hours, but even 1 hour is good enough. Also? See my Beer Battered Yogurt Fried Chicken.
Where are my manners?! Forgot to wish you a Happiest of Sundays! Hope you are doing grrrreat!
How was Valentine’s Day? Everything you expected? Was he a gentleman?! DID HE PROPOSE?!? Do tell!
I stayed in with mah lil’ girlz. My buddy, the hubby, had to work. It’s all good, though. The babes and I ate chocolate covered pretzels, Heart-Shaped Cinnamon Rolls (again), and big slices of that Black Magic Chocolate Cake. We had a blast! Sugar-high at its best!!
Not to worry. Before attacking the chocolate, and to enhance the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we had this lovely Garlic-Yogurt Baked Chicken for dinner. I treat my girls very well.
Gonna let you in on a little secret. I like chicken, a lot. It could be the only reason why I haven’t gone the vegetarian route. If you look around zee bloggy, you’ll find a bunch of vegetarian-friendly meals, but very, very few meals that involve meat.
This is a serious, melt-in-your-mouth chicken dinner. I can’t even begin to tell you how often this appears on our table.
HOW TO MAKE GARLIC YOGURT BAKED CHICKEN BREASTS:
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Combine yogurt, garlic, and thyme in a bowl and mix until combined.
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Combine yogurt mixture with chicken and refrigerate anywhere from 1 hour to 6 hours.
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Transfer chicken to a baking pan.
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Sprinkle panko bread crumbs over chicken breasts. As in, don’t dredge the chicken breasts in crumbs – a little bit is plenty for a nice and light crunch.
- If you want to get fancy with quartered red onions and lemon slices, add those to the baking pan as well and bake for around 40-ish minutes, or until chicken is done.
If you’ve got some chicken on hand, and if you have a whole lotta garlic… please. Please do yourself a favor and go to that kitchen. Putting dinner together is a juggling act, I know, but it’s Sunday. Let’s do this. Don’t forget the yogurt.
P.S. All I really, really want to say is – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!! 😛
MORE CHICKEN RECIPES:
- Baked Chicken Parmesan
- Grilled Chicken with Orange, Grape and Feta Salsa
- Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken
- Baked Chicken Meatballs with Garlic Dill Yogurt Sauce
ENJOY!
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Garlic-Yogurt Baked Chicken
Ingredients
- 4 (16 ounces) chicken breasts
- salt and fresh ground pepper , to taste
- 6 garlic cloves , minced
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- 1/2 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves
- 1/4 cup panko bread crumbs
Instructions
- Lightly pound chicken just enough to even it out; do not pound it thin.
- Place chicken in a large bowl and season with salt and pepper; set aside.
- In a separate bowl, combine garlic, yogurt, and thyme; mix until combined.
- Pour yogurt mixture over chicken; mix until chicken is thoroughly coated.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 4 to 6 hours.
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Grease a baking pan with cooking spray.
- Remove chicken from bowl and shake off any excess; discard yogurt mixture.
- Transfer chicken to prepared baking pan.
- Sprinkle panko bread crumbs over chicken breasts.
- Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until chicken is done.
- Remove from oven.
- Serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional info is an estimate and provided as courtesy. Values may vary according to the ingredients and tools used. Please use your preferred nutritional calculator for more detailed info.
panko is not gluten free so idk why you’re claiming this is a gluten free recipe
I had excess vanilla yogurt so I’m marinating thighs w Moroccan spice, Odobe seasoning and a dash of hot paprika and garlic to counter the vanilla. Fingers crossed for a one pot meal later!
Bone-In Chicken Thighs were on sale today, in preparing, I removed the skin from 4 thighs and slashed the meat to the bone in a couple of places for the marinade to penetrate the meat. Used a generous ½ cup of yogurt, juice of one lemon, at least 6 cloves of garlic (maybe a smidge more to keep the vampires away!), and used McCormick Greek Seasoning which in includes a bit of mint, and finished with salt and pepper. I marinated the thighs for 2 ½ hours, baked off at 350F until chicken temp with a probe thermometer reached 160 degrees F. Removed from the oven and let the dish ‘rest’ for 5 minutes or so while mixing the salad. Temperature on the thighs came up to 165, safe for serving and was nóstimos (Greek for delicious!). Accompanied with your recommended rice and a nice Greek Salad with feta, kalamata olives, and dressed with a lemon vinaigrette using a fruity olive oil..
Can I make this with cherry flavored yogurt? I don’t have any plain.
Hi!
Well, if you don’t mind cherry-flavored chicken, sure, go right ahead. 😊
How can this possibly be only 3 WW points!?!?!?! When I was in turkey I remember a friend marinading chicken in yogurt. This was absolutely delicious and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
Can I leave out the breadcrumbs?????
Sure, but it will be without that bit of crunch 😀
The chicken was tender and delicious! I did add onion quarters and lime slices. I devoured it with rice! Thank you.
I really love yogurt but I ‘ve never tried it with chicken before.So I made it last week. So delicious :).
This is the perfect combination. Thanks for sharing.
had something this past week that was just about like this. My friend said to look it up online and this is what I found. I’ve babied the chicken all afternoon and will be ready to bake it in about 2 hours. I expect it to be just about what I’m looking for. I’m serving fresh summer squash with it…
WAAAYYYY TOO MUCH GARLIC. ANYONE ELSE???
Nope! We loved it with 6 cloves of garlic and ours were large cloves too.
Hi Katerina!
Your recipe of Garlic Yogurt Baked Chicken looks amazing! i have already bought chicken thighs not breasts though.. so think they would work out with the recipe? Also it calls for yogurt but it doesn’t say if its greek or not..any recommendations? Thank you!!