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.
Sorry. This was just OK. I followed the recipe exactly. It had too much liquid once cooked from the chicken and the chicken wasn’t that flavorful. I think it should be marinaded or something.
The liquid issue may stem from the type of chicken used (most chicken is water-chilled in US). I use air chilled chicken for that exact reason – to avoid dilution of flavors and spices.
Could you use tzatziki (made with yogurt) I have some to use up lol
Thanks
Yes, absolutely!
Could this be made in an air fryer?
Yes! Just spread the yogurt mixture OVER the chicken breasts and place them in the air fryer for 16 to 20 minutes.
Oh my! What an amazing recipe! Going on repeat for my own meal planning and I could also envision a platter of chicken pieces and naan bread for a casual party spread. I cooked this on an oiled rack over a foil-lined sheet pan and had no issues with excess moisture-even though I left a healthy coating of marinade on the meat! I also broiled it on both sides at the end – let it get nice and crispy! Will confess that I added a teaspoon of curry powder and smoked paprika to your seasoning blend, but I add that to everything! Thanks so much for sharing this!!
Your vision of a chicken/naan platter is very inspiring, Ken!
1055 in sodium…yikes!!! Any way to make this a low carb LOW SODIUM dish???
The amount of sodium is based on the dredging mixture (which is not used entirely, but the system automatically calculates based on that mixture). So the resulting sodium will be much less than that per serving. However, you can add 1/2 teaspoon of salt (vs 1 teaspoon) to the dredging mixture and make sure to use the entire mixture to have enough flavoring adhere to the chicken.
I think the nutrition facts are off. When I added the recipe to fitness pal, it tried to substitute fried chicken tenders for the protien. Fried chicken tenders would definitely be high in sodium. Changing the chicken to raw chicken would, in fact, result in much much less sodium.
Oh wow, this was absolutely delicious. My family loves it, especially my husband. I used skin on chicken thighs so not as healthy but sooo good, skin went super crispy. Thank you.
Super crispy skin is the best! I love your comment!