Chicken Mozzarella Bake

4.80 from 5 votes

This Chicken Mozzarella Bake is cheesy, savory, and flavorful. It's a high-protein dinner recipe you can make in just one pan. Just pop this gluten-free chicken dinner into the oven, and 30 minutes later you've got yourself a perfect keto dish!

Prep Time15

Cook Time34

Total Time49

Course: Dinner, Gluten Free, Keto

Cuisine: American

Keyword: chicken mozzarella bake, chicken mozzarella tomato bake, chicken tomato mozzarella bake, mozzarella chicken bake

Servings: chicken breasts

Author: Karo @ AllNutritious

Equipment

Baking dish

Ingredients

Chicken

4 small chicken breasts skinless, boneless, thin or pounded out
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 tbsp onion powder
1 tbsp Italian seasoning
Salt & black pepper to taste
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Tomato Sauce

1 can chopped tomatoes 16 oz
3 garlic cloves minced
1/2 red onion finely chopped
2 tsp oregano
salt and black pepper to taste

Topping & Garnish

1 cup grated mozzarella
A few basil leaves chopped for garnish

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375F.
Take your chicken breasts. Make sure the breasts you use are smaller and thinner, if not, pound them out to ensure they have flavor later on.
On a cutting board, make cuts on one side of the chicken breasts without fully cutting through. This will help for the seasonings to get inside the meat.
Flip your chicken breasts on the board and sprinkle with half of the garlic powder, onion powder, Italian seasoning, salt and black pepper. Rub the seasoning in.
Place your chicken breasts into a baking dish with the cut-up side facing up.
Sprinkle with the remainder of the seasonings so both sides are covered. Drizzle with olive oil.
Rub it in like you did with the other side. The more seasoning gets inside the cuts, the more flavor there'll be.
In a bowl mix together sauce ingredients: chopped tomatoes, minced garlic, red onion, oregano, salt and black pepper.
Cover chicken breasts with tomato sauce and sprinkle with grated mozzarella.
Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes. Broil for 2 minutes afterwards to golden up the cheese. Make sure it doesn't burn, so watch the oven.
Serve with chopped basil sprinkled over the top.

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