Are you looking for great, easy and healthy chicken dinner? Or, a low carb chicken recipe? Well, this greek yogurt chicken, made with a splash of mayonnaise will become a favorite weeknight dinner when you just need a fast meal on your table under 20 minutes! I guarantee it!
Classic chicken dinner recipes is the easiest thing you can make when you are short on time, or busy, or simply don’t have energy to come up with something complicated to cook. This melt in your mouth chicken is tender, flavorful, delicious and only takes minutes to make!
Why Make Low Carb Chicken Recipe
- This healthy chicken recipe is made using simple ingredients!
- Greek yogurt, mayonnaise, parmesan cheese and garlic powder. And SALT!
- It’s a low carb chicken recipe at only 2 carbs per serving.
- What is even better is that this greek yogurt chicken dinner is amazingly simple, flavorful and so tender. After you make this keto chicken once, you will know!
The bonus of this healthy chicken recipe? It stores beautifully and easy to reheat the next day.
With a healthy chicken recipe that uses either chicken tenders or chicken breasts you’re just minutes away from the most addictive chicken dinner the whole will family love! The perfect meal to have when you feel like eating something that tastes rich, yet healthy.
Helpful Tips to avoid Watery Chicken
Many chickens in the supermarkets come with added liquids. That means that when baking this type of chicken breast in the oven, you may not get a nice crust on top, instead your chicken will be swimming in the pool of its own juices + whatever was injected into it.
If you notice that chicken is releasing a lot of water, which might happen if chicken has added liquid, remove it from the oven and transfer it to the stove top pan. Cook until the chicken develops a nice brown crust and good to go!
Alternatively, you can opt to buy air-chilled chicken that has zero injected liquids.
Are you ready for a low carb chicken dinner recipe?
This low carb chicken recipe is one of those classic chicken recipes that I am sure you’ve had at some point in your life. My mom, for example, used to make it with mayonnaise only.
I chose to use yoghurt and mayonnaise together and the greek yogurt chicken comes out as crispy and tasty, if not better than my mom’s mayonnaise chicken.
This summer I cooked a variety of simple and delicious low carb chicken recipes. I made Peri Peri Chicken and Roasted Spatchcock Chicken. Both are as delicious as they are healthy.
Make sure to serve this healthy chicken dinner with any of these amazing dishes:
Warm Quinoa and Brussels sprout Salad
Olive Garden Copycat Italian Salad
Cranberry, Walnut and Spinach Salad in Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
More low carb chicken recipes
Bacon, Cream Cheese and Cheddar Chicken
Chicken Thighs in Creamy Mushroom Thyme Bacon Sauce
Broccoli, Bacon and Cheddar Chicken
Low Carb Greek Yoghurt Chicken
Ingredients
- oil spray
- 5 oz. plain greek yogurt, (I used 5% fat yogurt)
- 2 tablespoon mayonnaise
- ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1.5 lb. chicken tenders (whole) or chicken breasts (cut in quarters)
- Parsley, (chopped, for garnish)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Lightly coat a 12 inch oven proof pan or 9×9 baking dish with nonstick oil spray and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the greek yogurt, mayonnaise, Parmesan cheese, garlic powder, salt and pepper.
- Add chicken into the bowl with yogurt mixture and coat the mixture all over the chicken.
- Move chicken to a baking dish (or oven proof pan). Chicken should be thinly coated with the yogurt mixture. Don’t put too much or any additional mixture leftover.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through.
- Turn the oven to broil and place the pan under the broiler for 2-3 minutes until lightly browned on top.
- Optional: garnish with chopped parsley.
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy only. This information comes from online calculators. Although whatsinthepan.com attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
Our family loves this recipe! We’ve even passed it on to other relatives and they love it too. We do add bread crumbs or Pillsbury stuffing mix, but it’s been a big hit in our family. We discovered it during lock down so my funny family renamed it Pandemic Chicken.
Love the pandemic chicken title!
Shocked by all these negative reviews- made this tonight and it was absolutely delicious! Followed recipe as given, and baked on a wire cooling racks on top of my baking sheets which prevented the liquid from pooling up. Added a little minced garlic and lemon juice since I had it left over from the night before and a dash of cayenne for a bit of heat. Will definitely be making this again! Thank you for a great recipe
Sounds like you nailed it, Alex!
I saw the comments about this one being a bit bland so I decided to use 1 tsp salt and heavily coated the chicken as opposed to thinly coating it. I noticed I had a lot of the mixture left over anyway and didn’t want to waste it. It turned out amazing and this recipe is now in my favourites! I cook it all the time and it’s kid-approved! Not sure why the comments have to be so rude if you didn’t like it though.
So glad you enjoyed it, Stef!
Not impressed. Very bland. Very amateurish. I’ve made much better flavored chicken. Surprised this was even posted
This was amazing! I used this chicken recipe for Gyros and used tzatziki sauce and pita pockets. Yum yum!
This recipe was tasty enough as it was written. However, for me, this is going to be a base recipe. A canvas to paint however I want. Next time I’m going to mix in greek seasoning and bake it with onion slices on top. After that I will try cajun seasoning. I think this will also taste good with Italian seasoning as well. I look forward to trying lots of different things with this recipe.
That’s a beautiful approach, Becky!
Absolutely did not look like the pictures or come out tasty. Will not be using again or the website. The pic is VERY deceiving
I actually found this to be a bit bland although the chicken stayed moist. Next time, I’ll have to amp up the flavors more. You could smell the garlic while it was cooking but it was very mild on the chicken. To avoid the problem others had with the chicken releasing a lot of moisture, I baked mine raised up off the pan on one of my cooling racks. Mine didn’t release much liquid at all so it probably wasn’t necessary. Without the excess moisture, I did get good color on mine.
I am glad about the color on the chicken. Using a rack is great tip against moisture. Probably a bit more salt would improve the flavor.