Creamy Chicken Bake – is a one pan wonder and takes only moments to throw together! Tender chicken breasts in a delicious cream sauce that requires no standing at the stove!
We love this easy to make one pan dish any night of the week! Perfect for company as well. It cooks up in about 30 minutes and goes perfectly with a side dish of rice and steamed veggies.
Ingredients to make Creamy Baked Chicken –
- boneless chicken breasts
- sun dried tomatoes – packed in oil
- heavy cream
- chicken broth
- spinach
- parmesan cheese
- garlic, onion powder and paprika
We start by seasoning the chicken with salt, pepper, onion powder and paprika.
Chop up the drained sun dried tomatoes and scatter them around the chicken.
Then combine the cream, chicken stock, garlic powder, flour and parmesan cheese.
Pour this all around the chicken. It’s okay if you submerge the chicken in all that dreamy sauce! It will bake up nice and thick.
Now in the oven it goes! How easy was that!
Bake at 400 degrees for about 20-25 minutes. Chicken is cooked through when it reaches 165 degrees internally.
When done, sprinkle with chopped spinach and stir into the hot sauce. No need to put it back in the oven. The hot creamy sauce will soften the spinach perfectly.
Serve as is with a fresh steamed veggie on the side like broccoli or asparagus, or with a side of white rice, quinoa or cauliflower rice to keep it low carb!
Store any leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Freezing is not recommended as the cream sauce will break down.
More easy recipes to make with boneless chicken breasts –
- Pesto, Tomato and Mozzerella Stuffed Chicken Breasts – easier than you might think and the flavors are amazing!
- Chicken in White Wine Sauce – my go to chicken recipe because I always have white wine on hand!
- Chicken in Mustard Cream Sauce – amazing what a little mustard and cream will do!
LET’s EAT!
Kathi and Rachel
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Creamy Baked Chicken
Ingredients
- 4 boneless chicken breasts
- 1/2 cup chopped sundried tomatoes - packed in oil
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 cup chicken stock
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese - divided
- 1 cup finley chopped spinach - fresh or frozen thawed
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 °F
- Spray a 9 x 13 baking dish with nonstick spray. Place the bonelss chicken breasts in the pan.
- Season chicken with onion powder, paprika, italian seasoning, salt and pepper.
- Sprinkle chopped sun dried tomatoes over the chicken.
- In a large measuring cup or bowl, add cream, chicken stock, garlic powder and flour. . Whisk until no flour is visable. Stir in 1/4 cup of the the grated parmesan cheese.
- Pour the cream mixture over and around the chicken and sun dried tomatoes.
- Sprinkle with remaining parmesan cheese.
- Bake uncovered for about 25 minutes until the sauce is thick and the chicken is 165 degrees internally.
- Remove from the oven and stir chopped spinach into the hot sauce. Let sit for a few minutes until spinach is wilted.
- Serve with rice, cauliflower rice or quinoa and a steamed veggie for a simple and fast dinner!
susie macneill says
Delicious
Carol Hofbauer says
Delicious recipe! My husband took one bite and said he loved it! High praise from Mr.Picky! Next time I may double the sauce – we loved the sauce. Had no trouble thickening it. I did use more sun dried tomatoes but that was the only change.
M. Snow says
Very easy and delicious chicken dinner! We serve it with a wild rice mix and roasted carrots (since the oven is already heated to high). My problem with this recipe is, the sauce does not thicken in the time it takes to properly cook the chicken. I would have to overcook the chicken to get the sauce thicker! Do you have a suggestion for how to end up with a thicker sauce, like adding a couple tablespoons of flour or corenstartc?? It runs all over the plate it is so thin.
Kathi & Rachel says
For a thicker sauce reduce or omit the chicken stock and just use the cream. Hope that helps, glad you liked the dish! Kathi
Lisa says
This was so simple for me and super delicious! I prepared exactly as suggested. Added “wacky mac” pasta on the side with Parmesan sprinkled on top as well as steamed cauliflower. I will be making this again soon.
Marguerite says
Can you leave out the sun dried tomatoes and spinach?
Kathi & Rachel says
Sure! Will be just a nice simple creamy sauce!
Denise says
Well, I thought this was pretty durn good. I used more sun-dried tomatoes because I didn’t have enough left in the jar to make anything else with them, and I love them, ditto parmesan cheese. I made rotini to serve it over. the sauce is delicious. It was easy to do and I like it very much. (I also added extra garlic powder and a little garlic salt because in my world there is never enough garlic, in any form). I WOULD try mixing in the chopped spinach with the sauce before baking, and maybe using fresh spinach instead of roasted, because it was hard to mix in at the end and it didn’t really ger warm.
I enjoy reading your recipes, and thank you very much.
Kathi & Rachel says
We are so glad you liked the Cream Chicken Bake Denise! Thank you for the 5 stars and nice note!