Oven Baked Split Chicken Breasts

These oven baked split chicken breasts will be a wonderful addition to your chicken recipe collection. They can be served as is, or can be diced or shredded to use in a variety of dishes.

These oven baked split chicken breasts are incredibly juicy and incredibly delicious! Sometimes I make this bone-in chicken as is for an amazing dinner main dish. Other times, I like to dice or shred the meat to make all kinds of fun dishes! I hope you’ll enjoy this dish as much as we do!

Let’s talk about the ingredients in this dish!

We start our dish with making an amazingly delicious spice mixture to coat our chicken in. Our spice mix consists of garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt, and pepper. Yum! For our meat, we’re using split chicken breasts. And although this may sound like a fancy and difficult cut of meat to work with, it is simply a bone-in cut of chicken with skin. And it’s incredibly easy to bake! Technically, a whole chicken breast includes both sides of the chicken and it is split in two for this cut of meat. It contains all white meat, and because it is bone-in and skin on, the meat comes out amazingly juicy and you get nice crispy skin too! We brush the skin with a little olive oil to help achieve this.

How do I make these oven baked split chicken breasts?

This is an easy dish to make, but there are a few things you can do to ensure your chicken turns out perfectly every time. First, you’ll want to spray your baking dish. I used avocado oil spray for mine. I like to touch raw chicken as little as possible😉, so I place about a third of the spice mixture in my baking dish. Then I use tongs to place the chicken on top of the spices and press the chicken down a little to season the bottom of the chicken. Then after brushing the olive oil on the top of the chicken, you simply sprinkle the remaining spice mixture evenly over the chicken. Last, the bake time for your split chicken breasts will vary depending on the size of your chicken pieces. You’ll want to use a meat thermometer and make sure your chicken is cooked to 165 degrees.

How can I serve these oven baked split chicken breasts?

You have some awesome options for serving this chicken. It can be served as is to make an incredible chicken dinner. You can slice the chicken if you’d like for a pretty presentation. You can also cube or shred the chicken and use it in other dishes. The meat can be added to casseroles, salads, soups, or stir fry dishes. You can also add it to omelets and scrambled eggs for fun breakfast twists. It can be used to make keto tacos or an amazingly delicious chicken salad. You could even add some keto barbecue sauce and make barbecued pulled chicken.

Need some more keto chicken dishes? Here you go!

Chicken Thighs with Keto Tarragon Cream Sauce

Classic Keto Roast Chicken

Low Carb Dill Pickle Brined Chicken Drumsticks

Sour Cream Fajita Keto Chicken

Helpful Hints:

*I used 3 large split chicken breasts, but you can also use 4 smaller ones.

*You’ll know your chicken is done when your meat thermometer measures 165 degrees.

Main Kitchen Equipment and Utensils:

• 13×9 inch baking dish
• Measuring spoons

Splash of Encouragement:

***All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. John 1:3***