Baked Sour Cream Chicken is tender chicken breasts baked to perfection with a crunchy breadcrumb toping and rich creamy sauce. Try it tonight!
When it comes to delicious family Dinner Recipes you don’t have to spend all day on, it’s hard to beat a simple chicken dinner. Just like Baked Rosemary Chicken or Crispy Butter Chicken, this recipe takes simple chicken and adds tons of flavor with delicious herbs, breadcrumbs, and sour cream topping.
Sabrina’s Baked Sour Cream Chicken
This Simple Chicken Dish is ready in just 30 minutes and is a great recipe to work into your weeknight dinner rotation. It’s the perfect comfort food dish with a crispy crumb topping and juicy chicken inside. Even though it’s baked in the oven, the crumb topping gives the chicken the same crispiness you’d expect from Fried Chicken. Then the sour cream sauce makes the recipe extra rich, and adds a little bit of delicious tang.
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Ingredients
- 4 large chicken breasts (skinless and boneless)
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup Italian bread crumbs , or crushed cornflakes, or crispy rice cereal
- 1 teaspoon crushed Italian herbs
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Pound chicken flat until about 1/2-inch thick.
- Place chicken into a greased 11×7-inch baking dish.
- Spread the sour cream over the chicken.
- In a small mixing bowl add the breadcrumbs, herbs, salt, and pepper, then mix until combined.
- Sprinkle crumb mixture over the chicken.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes until cooked through.
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About this Recipe
The next time you’re in a rush but still want to serve a delicious homemade dinner, this 30-minute chicken is the perfect solution. You only need a few simple ingredients, and the hands-on time is just 10 minutes. After that, you only have to pop the chicken in the oven and wait for your perfectly easy main dish.
What to Pair With
To round off this simple chicken dish into a filling meal serve it with some classic sides like Mashed Potatoes or easy Brown Rice. This Sour Cream Chicken is flavorful enough that you can serve it with fairly simple sides and still have a wonderfully delicious meal.
How to Store
- Serve: You should never leave your Baked Sour Cream Chicken out for longer than 2 hours.
- Store: To store this chicken recipe, let it cool down to room temperature. Then put it in a plastic bag or another airtight container. Baked Chicken will stay good in the fridge for 3-4 days, and you can easily reheat it in the microwave or oven.
- Freeze: Properly sealed, you could also store this chicken dish in the freezer for up to 4 months. Let the chicken thaw in the fridge before you pop it in the oven to reheat.
Variations
- Cheese: To make Cheesy Sour Cream Chicken sprinkle a little bit of shredded cheddar, mozzarella, or parmesan cheese over the chicken when you take it out of the oven. The cheese will melt to gooey, stringy perfection. Instead of shredded cheese, you could also put a slice of mozzarella, cheddar, or Swiss cheese to melt right over the chicken.
- Crumb Coating: Instead of the Italian Bread crumbs in the recipe, you could use typical Panko breadcrumbs. Change things up even more from the Panko breadcrumbs with Ritz Crackers. Broken apart Ritz Cracker crumbs make a great replacement for dry breadcrumbs. To make the recipe extra cheesy, mix a cup parmesan cheese with the Ritz cracker crumbs.
- Sour Cream: In place of the sour cream in the recipe, you could also use plain Greek yogurt or cream of chicken soup. Both are rich and creamy, so they’ll make good substitutes.
- Chicken Thighs: You could also make Baked Chicken Thighs with the crispy outer layer in this recipe. Just be sure to bake until cooked through.
- Extra Flavor: To experiment with the taste of your chicken try adding your favorite herbs and spices like paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, fresh chives, or cayenne pepper. You could also drizzle a little lemon juice over the top for some zest. Spice things up with a dash of hot sauce, too.
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This is really good!! Everyone at my house loved it and they’re asking me to make it again soon! Thanks for the recipe!
This may easily be the best baked chicken I have made so far. The family absolutely loved it!! I will be making more for meal prep. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Loved how easy this was to make! Turned out so yummy. My whole family enjoyed it. Thanks for the great recipe!
This was a huge hit at my house last night!! Everyone enjoyed it! Thanks so much for the recipe! I couldn’t wait to make it again!
This sour cream chicken is so rich and scrumptious! Such a keeper!
Okay, my family is obsessed. They are already asking me to make this sour cream chicken again! Haha. Thanks for the recipe!
Loved this sour cream chicken! So juicy! Thanks for the recipe!
Okay YUM! This will definitely be added to my weekly rotation of meals. It literally disappeared in front of my eyes!
I was so excited when I stumbled upon this recipe; it reminded me of one my mom used to make, and it was soooo good! Fantastic find!
I forgot . . . I did NOT totally crush up the corn flakes I left them probably halfway crushed and it was so good with the sour cream
Love this recipe AND, I made a couple additions.
1st time I made it, I put thin sliced of onion under the sour cream . . . Delicious.
2nd time, in addition to the onion slices, I added “cooked” bacon . . . Delicious.
Also, I used chicken “thighs” instead of breasts
I’ve made this before but forgot just how GOOD it is. Next time I might bread the chicken on both sides. This chicken is so moist and flavorful! It’s easy, quick and so good.
Thank you for this super easy & fast to make chicken dinner that DOESN’T include cheese! Hubby is allergic to most cheeses.
Anyway, I tried this and the chicken was so mosit inside w/ just a slight crunch outside.
The only differences I made were; I added dried, chopped chives and a pinch of dill and some dried parsley to the sour cream before pouring it over the chicken.
It gave the chicken an even more pronounced “herb” flavor.
I also used a mix of Italian bread crumbs and plain Panko crumbs.
Great recipe!! Thank you. I’ve made many of your recipes & I don’t recall ever being disappointed by any of them!
Greta recipe… All I added was marinated chicken (Italian dressing with Worcestershire sauce, lemon, and herbs), covered as instructed, added chopped onions and chopped green peppers on top. So good and a very versatile recipe to add to!! Thanks, this one is definitely added to one of my staple recipes. I can use this in soooo many ways. Have to add, I don’t eat red meat and anyone who knows that just eating chicken and fish, it’s so hard to find different ways to cook my meals. This one is definitely a favorite and going to help me in the long run! Again, thanks so much!!
Tried this recipe yesterday, hubby loved it and it was so easy to make! Will be adding recipe to my fav foods binder!
I made this recipe!!!!
OMG!!! Hands down delicious!!
I used garlic and herb bread crumbs, and Italian Kraft cheese. Sour cream was a perfect for holding the bread crumbs.
I didn’t get crispy brown coating either. I did a thin layer of sour cream and the seasoned crumbs. Nothing no sizzling or sauce of any kind.
When I melted some butter and poured over it, did it start browning.
Made this for dinner tonight and it never browned on the top even though it was cooked more than 20 minutes. Any idea why?
Hard to say since I wasn’t with you while its was being cooked, but maybe the sour cream layer was too thick? Sorry !
Wow! Just tried this tonight, and my (usually underwhelmed) 9-year-old gave it rave reviews through the entire meal, then went back to his online gaming buddies after dinner to tell them about it! 🙂
Yay! That definitely sounds like a winning dish to me. Thanks for coming back to let me know, Bridget.
Such an amazing taste for such an easy to throw together recipe! Loved it! My husband, who hates sour cream and chicken breast, also loved it! Hmm, should I tell him…
Haha, it’ll be our little secret. Thanks for the 5 stars, Debbie.
The recipe says to put the sour cream and bread crumbs only on one side of the chicken. Why not coat each breast entirely in sour cream and bread crumbs?
I am so sorry, I am just seeing this tonight. I am sure the recipe has long been cooked/or not but I still want to try to help.
The bottom is not coated because being underneath the chicken during cooking would trap in steam and would make the coating soggy rather than crispy.
Would nonfat Greek yogurt work instead of sour cream?
Yes 🙂 Enjoy!