Garlic Butter Skillet Chicken
Garlic Butter Skillet Chicken is a quick and easy dinner idea perfect for busy nights! This recipe uses just one pan, which means less mess in your kitchen. The garlic butter sauce will have you licking your fingers and everyone at the table begging for seconds!
Ingredients
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon dried parsley
- ½ teaspoon himalayan pink salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 6 tablespoons butter melted
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1 tablespoon avocado oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Season both sides of chicken with paprika, basil, parsley, salt and pepper.
- In a small bowl, mix together butter and minced garlic.
- Heat avocado oil in a cast iron skillet over medium-high heat. Once pan is heated through, add chicken and cook for 1-2 minutes each side.
- Pour garlic butter sauce over the chicken and place the skillet in the preheated oven. Bake for 15-25 minutes depending on the size of chicken breasts. Chicken breasts should get to an internal temperature of 165 degrees F.
- Remove skillet from the oven. Use a spoon to pour the garlic butter sauce from the pan onto each chicken breast before serving.
Notes
This recipe makes plenty of this liquid gold garlic butter sauce. It is delicious poured on the chicken after plating, but also poured onto an accompanying side of mashed potatoes.
