This is a fabulously flavored Lemon Parmesan chicken recipe. I actually based this recipe off of a parmesan encrusted tilapia recipe in my second book, Come Home To Supper, because my husband liked that so much. Note: this recipe is pretty far off the path of the tilapia one so if you want to make that, check out the original in my book.
This low carb chicken recipe is easy as can be to pull together and most of the “work” is just waiting on it to cook. A great weeknight supper, Saturday lunch, or Sunday dinner to add to your files.
Y’all ready to cook? We gotta eat eventually, so let’s get started…
To make this Lemon Parmesan Chicken Recipe you’ll need:
- Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts*
- Mayo
- Grated Parmesan
- Dried Basil
- Lemon (or bottled juice)
- Salt (not pictured)
- Butter
*Can I make it with other cuts of chicken or bone in chicken?
Sure! You’ll need to watch it and adjust the cooking time according to when your chicken gets done. I can’t tell you the cooking time for other cuts because I always just use boneless skinless breasts but you got this!
How To Make Lemon Parmesan Chicken
- Cut your lemon and squeeze out the juice.
Now listen, don’t freak out over the size of the lemon. Any lemon will work. If it’s small, you’ll have a little less juice, if it’s big you’ll have a little more juice. No big deal either way. If you don’t want to buy a lemon, you can use bottled juice. Remember, you are the boss of the recipes in your house.
- Place chicken and lemon juice in zipper seal bag and seal.
- Place this bag in the refrigerator, turning every now and then (when you think about it) for about an hour (or so).
You don’t have to put your lemon slices in the bag but I do because, well because I want to. I think it helps with the flavor.
- Before you get started cooking your chicken, place parmesan, mayo, 1/2 of the butter, basil, and salt in a bowl.
- Stir together until thoroughly combined.
When it’s all stirred up together it will look like this and you may think “That is not enough cheese for all of this chicken” but it is. It really, really is.
- Place the remaining butter in large skillet over medium heat and let melt.
- Add chicken (lemon juice and all) and cook until lightly browned on both sides and no longer pink in the center, turning once during the cooking process. This will take anywhere from fifteen to twenty minutes or so, depending on how thick your chicken is and the temperature of your stove eye or burner for the non-southerners out there.
Here is our cooked chicken. Ain’t it purty?
- Once chicken is fully cooked, transfer to a baking dish or rimmed baking sheet. I am using this enamel pan that also happens to be the perfect size for a batch of biscuits. Check it out on my Preston Rolls post if you’d like.
- Spread your cheese mixture over the top of each piece of chicken.
- Place this in a 350 degree oven for about ten minutes to finish off the chicken. Now you may be thinking “That cheese is going to melt and go everywhere”. But it really isn’t. This mixture is gonna sit happily, melt, and pretty much stay put. Don’t believe me? See below 🙂
Serve immediately, with lemon slices in case folks want to add a little extra burst of citrus to theirs.
Ingredients
- 3-4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 lemon plus one for garnishing if you like*
- 1/2 cup butter at room temp (salted or unsalted)
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 3 tablespoons mayo
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon dried basil
Instructions
- Place chicken breasts in gallon zipper seal bag. Juice lemon and pour juice in bag. Seal and place in the refrigerator for about an hour, turning every now and then.
- Place 1/4 cup of butter in a large skillet over medium high heat until melted. Add chicken breasts (and juice in bag) and cook, flipping as needed, until browned and no longer pink in the center, about 20 minutes.
- In a small bowl, stir together remaining butter (1/4 cup), mayo, parmesan cheese, salt, and basil until fully blended.
- Remove cooked chicken from skillet and place on baking sheet. Spread cheese mixture evenly over tops of chicken. Place in 350 oven for about ten minutes, or until cheese is melted.
- Serve with slices of fresh lemon, if desired.
Notes
Nutrition
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Christy, I want to make this but there are only two of us in the house. Will it freeze or reheat okay? I noticed the recipe says to “serve immediately” so wasn’t sure about leftovers.
Just made this for dinner over the weekend…was a huge hit all around! I ran out of lemon juice but subbed a combo of lime and pineapple to “brine” the chicken in (plus made sure nobody was watching when I added the mayo to the topping – we have a few mayo-haters in our home!). There wasn’t any left at the end of dinner! Thanks Christy for sharing this recipe!!!
Great thinking on the substitutions and I am so glad to hear your family liked it!!!
Making this for dinner tonight! What a great excuse to go get a bigger cast iron skillet!
🙂 I hope you love it!! And any excuse for cast iron is a good excuse!
Made this last night, but I live alone and will be eating it for several days. What is the best way to reheat it? Sooo good!
Making this now but using sour cream instead of mayo.
Great idea Marsha! Let me know how it turns out 🙂
Yummy, as all your recipes have been. Thank you for the smiles and delicious healthy meals! God bless you and yours, Christy.
My kin all say “stove eye,” too. I think it comes from the big old wood stoves that our grandmas and great-grandmas cooked on. I can remember both my grandmothers using theirs (those ladies had arm muscles!). My mom always wanted a wood stove and swore they were ideal for proper biscuits!
This recipe was very good. But my cheese mixture did run all over the pan. I just spooned it up and put it on top when I ate it. Some stayed on top though. I kept this mixture in the fridge and it was cold when I put it on top of the chicken. I don’t know if that had anything to do with it.
I just made this for our family dinner last night and the flavor was amazing!!! I had some shaved Parmesan cheese left from another use and mixed that in with the other listed ingredients. My topping really melted and spread once in the oven, so I didn’t have the visible “crusty” cheese that is in your picture. I was almost sad that all my topping melted away, but there was enough left and it was fine and super delicious!!! I also used softened butter I had in my butter bell crock. . .so maybe it was “too” soft? Not sure if it was the cheese or butter, but it was yummy!!! Thanks for sharing!
It could have been either of those but I am glad to hear it was delicious despite loosing the topping.