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.
Do you think this recipe would work if cooked in the air fryer?
It will work in the air fryer!
Do u think I could leave out the mayo? My family wouldn’t touch it if they knew, and I can’t lie!!
You can definitely leave it out and add more greek yogurt.
Yum! So good! I decided to try this because of the reviews and so glad I did! I’d never had anything like this before! I halved the recipe since I had about 3/4lb of chicken. It was the perfect amount. I flipped the chicken halfway through and flipped it back to broil. For the person that said their’s didn’t look like the picture, I’m wondering if they missed the broiling step? Once I did that, mine looked pretty close. Served with lemon pasta and corn. Can’t wait to make this again! Thank you!
Hi Laura! Thank you so much for your kind words and the tip about broiling!
This is so delicious, I will definitely be making again! I used FF yogurt because that’s what I had on hand. I can’t wait to eat the leftovers!
I’m so glad you liked it, Robin!
I LOVED this chicken! It was so easy to make and had everything in refrigerator and the taste was wonderful! I am sending this great recipe onto my friends to enjoy too:
Thank you so much Pam for your kind words!
This was very tasty and easy. I did add 1 fresh clove of garlic extra and it added that punch. I had left over sauce, however, so next time I would half the recipe. Excellent!
The description mentions it stores and reheats well. What’s the best way to reheat it?
Wrap it in foil (with a little opening for steam) and put it in the oven at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes. Or, use a microwave. Put chicken on a plate, cover with a damp paper towel and start by cooking for about two minutes, pausing in between to flip the chicken while also making sure it’s not already reheated.
How come when I follow the recipe verbatim it NEVER looks like your picture! I’m so disheartened.
Maybe because by the time I take a picture, the food gets cold and a lot of times, the food does look better an hour after it’s cooked:).
What’s green in the picture? I don’t need see any ingredients that match up with an herb.
This is chopped parsley for garnish. I will add it to the ingredients.
Just wondering how much is a serving?
About quarter of a pound per serving.