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Oven-Baked Chicken

Betty Crocker Kitchens
Updated Mar 8, 2023
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Let's make chicken in the oven! If you love takeout fried chicken, you’ll love this crispy, mess-free, oven-baked alternative. The secret to this baked chicken recipe is adding the bird to a baking dish that’s already hot. This ensures the chicken starts cooking immediately and helps create a crispy, crackly skin that’s even better than your takeout favorite.

More About This Recipe

  • Sometimes the simplest kitchen trick can help you elevate a meal from so-so to “so good.” That’s certainly the case with this oven baked chicken recipe that tastes like fried chicken, but without any of the mess. With little more than butter, paprika and Bisquick™ Original Pancake & Baking Mix, you can bake up a chicken dish that’s totally delicious. While it may taste as though you spent hours creating a custom-blend rub, all you need is 10 minutes to coat your chicken in the flour-spice mixture. Placing the chicken skin-side down in a preheated pan is what helps the skin get that wonderful crunch and crackle—all in the oven, no deep fryer required. When baked chicken is this moist and tender on the inside and this crispy on the outside, you know it will become your go-to recipe. No wonder it’s already been highly rated by hundreds of home cooks. Once you’ve mastered this recipe, you can start exploring the rest of Betty’s best chicken recipes.

Oven-Baked Chicken

  • Prep Time 10 min
  • Total 60 min
  • Servings 6
  • Ingredients 6
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 425°F. Melt butter in 13x9-inch (3-quart) baking dish, in oven.
  • Step 
    2
    In medium bowl, stir together Bisquick™ mix, paprika, salt and pepper; coat chicken. Place skin sides down in dish (dish and butter should be hot).
  • Step 
    3
    Bake 30 minutes; turn chicken. Bake about 15 minutes longer or until juice of chicken is clear when thickest pieces are cut to bone (at least 165°F).

Nutrition

300 Calories
17g Total Fat
28g Protein
9g Total Carbohydrate
0g Sugars

Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens

  • tip 1
    It does not take long to melt butter in a hot oven. Be sure to watch closely, and remove when butter has melted.
  • tip 2
    The high oven temperature (425°F) not only browns up the chicken well, but it lets you get a chicken supper on the table in an hour.
  • tip 3
    Because the baking mix has some fat in it and you're using skin-on chicken for this Oven-Baked Chicken recipe, you don’t need to add a lot of additional fat to crisp up and brown the bird as it bakes.
  • tip 4
    For an extra delicious Oven-Baked Chicken, stir some dried herbs or a barbecue spice blend into the baking mix before coating the chicken.
  • tip 5
    If you do roast vegetables at the same time, adjust the oven racks so everything fits into the oven without being crowded. Be sure to check the temperature of the baked chicken since it may take a little longer with a crowded oven.
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