Baked Chicken Recipe with Onions and Colby Jack Cheese

An easy baked chicken recipe featuring chicken breasts, sautéed onions, and Colby Jack cheese. Perfect for quick weeknight dinners!

Baked Chicken. People are always looking for something different to do with baked chicken. Why? Because it just so happens to be a total snooze-fest. Boneless, skinless chicken breasts are boring on their own, no matter how perfectly you cook them. Facts are facts: Chicken needs a little love when it comes to the flavor department.

Like most things that require a little sprucing up, accessories don’t typically hurt one bit. In this case, we will be dressing up our chicken breasts with sautéed onions and melty Colby Jack cheese. Yes, please. The real beauty of it is, it’s not going to require that much more effort or mess. The onions are sautéed in the same pan that the chicken breasts are seared and baked in, and beyond that, all thats left is to grate some cheese to top it all off. It’s delicious, it’s easy and it’s anything but boring. Please, enjoy!

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Onion Smothered Chicken

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

40 mins

Total Time

55 mins

 

An easy baked chicken recipe featuring chicken breasts, sautéed onions, and Colby Jack cheese. 

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Smothered Chicken

Servings: 4

Calories: 516 kcal

Author: Kelly Anthony

Ingredients

• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 1 tablespoon + ¼ cup Canola oil separated
• 4 teaspoons of TAK House Seasoning or your favorite poultry spice blend recipe at TheAnthonyKitchen.com
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 2 yellow onions halved and thinly sliced
• 1 1/3 cups Colby Jack cheese freshly grated

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350° and have ready a baking dish just large enough to house the chicken breasts.

2. Add two chicken breasts to a gallon-sized, freezer-safe zip top bag. Press air out of the bag, seal it and using the smooth end of a meat mallet, or a rolling pin, pound out the chicken breast until it is a ½” thick and of uniform thickness. Remove from the bag, set aside and repeat with remaining chicken breasts. Remove any loose flaps of chicken with a sharp knife and discard, or reserve for another use. 

3. Pat chicken breasts dry with a paper towel and drizzle with 1 tablespoon of Canola oil. Season both sides of each breast with a 1/2 teaspoon of TAK House Seasoning and pat to adhere.

4. In a large, oven-safe sauté pan, heat a ¼ cup of oil over medium-high heat. Once the oil has come to temperature, add the butter. Immediately after the foaming has resided, add chicken breasts, taking care not to overcrowd the pan. Sear 5-6 minutes, without moving or jostling, until it has developed a golden-brown color. Turn and allow to sear on opposite side for about 4-5 minutes more until golden in color as well. Remove from the pan, place chicken in a baking dish and repeat with the two remaining chicken breasts.

5. Add the onions to the pan and sauté, gently scraping up any browned bits left over from the chicken. Allow to cook for 10-15 minutes, until they begin to take on a dark caramel color. 

6.  Remove from heat and spoon onions over the chicken breasts. Top each breast with a 1/3 of a cup of cheese, slightly pinching it together as you place it on top. Bake uncovered for 20 minutes. Allow to cool slightly and serve.

Nutrition Facts

Onion Smothered Chicken

Amount Per Serving

Calories 516 Calories from Fat 225

% Daily Value*

Fat 25g38%

Saturated Fat 13g81%

Cholesterol 201mg67%

Sodium 532mg23%

Potassium 1034mg30%

Carbohydrates 9g3%

Fiber 3g13%

Sugar 2g2%

Protein 59g118%

Vitamin A 765IU15%

Vitamin C 6.8mg8%

Calcium 404mg40%

Iron 3.1mg17%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Would pair well with:

Perfect Potato and Leek Soup, TAK Dinner Rolls, Decadent Mashed Potatoes, Twice-Baked Potatoes, Simple and Fresh Green Beans, Freshly Steamed Broccoli