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.
Ann says
Made this tonight – they did’t look anything like the picture but tasted great. The leftover mixture I spread on toast and baked – that was awesome too.
Thanks for sharing recipe.
Olya says
I am so happy the taste was great!
Tom says
Made this tonight for my wife. Used a vanilla Greek yogurt and it was amazing. Served with a Greek yogurt cucumber salad. Definitely will serve again with guests. Thank You.
Olya says
Oh, I love the addition of Greek yogurt cucumber salad!
Sheila says
I loved this recipe using chicken breast can I make it using chicken legs?
Olya says
Absolutely. I would increase oven time by 10-15 minutes.
Elizabeth says
I liked it very much but I may flip them under the broiler as I had a limp bottom. 😉
Sheila says
Love this recipe as it is.
Olya says
Thank you!
Andrew says
Made this for my family tonight, along with a side of steamed broccoli. Sprinkled a little parmesean over the chicken and the broccoli. Delicious and healthy!
Olya says
Thank you for making it with broccoli! I think it’s perfect.
Mike says
This sounds so good, however your nutrients are WAY off. You state 4 servings, just the chicken, 6oz, would have 54 g of protein and 282 calories. I want to make this, but I’ll need to enter everything into a calories calculator before I see whether or not I want to try it.
Olya says
I think the information is correct now – I just checked and it states 8 g of protein which makes sense
Becky says
I want to make this too! But was disappointed to see only 8 grams of protein, that can’t be right.
Olya says
Becky – you are absolutely right -it’s not 8 g, it’s 45 g! My mistake and my apologies! I updated the nutrition with the right information. So glad you noticed!
Kim says
I made this tonight and it was amazing!! Everyone loved it! I made it with light mayo and it turned out perfectly. The chicken was so moist (unlike most other nights Lol). Besides the substitute of light mayo I made it exactly how you wrote it. Great! Will make extra next time for lunches the next day. Thank you for the recipe! I will try more of your recipes soon.
Kim
Olya says
This is a great lunch recipe!
Ange Bunch says
Did you cover while baking?
Olya says
No, I didn’t
Al says
Did you flatten the pieces first? They look flat in the pic.
Olya says
I didn’t flatten the chicken. What I did is use chicken tenders, which were sliced thinly.