Southern Baked Barbecue Chicken Breast
In this post I’ll be sharing a delicious Southern Baked Barbecue Chicken Breast recipe.
Classic Southern Baked BBQ Chicken is one of those meals most of us grew up with. It’s a popular and easy way to prepare supper. Serve alongside coleslaw, baked beans and corn on the cob…..can’t you just taste it!
I prepared this chicken with my homemade Old Fashioned BBQ Sauce but you can certainly use your favorite bottled sauce too. I have to say there is something special about the super easy homemade sauce though. It seems to adhere very well to the chicken while baking and results in beautiful baked barbecue chicken.
BBQ Split Breast Chicken in Oven
Ingredients
- 4-8 Bone In Split Chicken Breast
- Salt
- Pepper
- Paprika
- 1 c Old Fashioned BBQ Sauce , or favorite bottled sauce
How to Make Barbecue Chicken at Home
Southern BBQ Chicken Recipe
Easy Oven Baked Chicken with Old Fashioned Barbecue Sauce
Reader Comment
Tracy says: “This is the best BBQ chicken we have ever made! The sauce is amazing!”
Southern Baked Barbecue Chicken Breast
Let’s make this Southern Baked Barbecue Chicken Breast recipe!
Southern Baked Barbecue Chicken (Bone In Split Breast)
Ingredients
- 4-8 Bone In Split Chicken Breast
- Salt
- Pepper
- Paprika
- 1 c Old Fashioned BBQ Sauce or favorite bottled sauce
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425℉.
- Arrange chicken breast pieces, skin side up, on a foil lined baking sheet or in a large casserole dish.
- Season each side of the chicken with salt, pepper, and paprika.
- Place the chicken into the preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes until the skin begins to crisp.
- Turn the oven temperature down to 375℉. Remove chicken from oven and brush on a layer of the barbecue sauce to the bottom and top sides. Return to the oven, skin side up.
- Bake the chicken an additional 30-40 minutes, basting the top side with additional sauce every 10 minutes.
- Chicken is done when the juices run clear and have an internal temperature of 165℉.
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Thank you so much 🙂
I don't make BBQ chicken a lot but this looks wonderful!
Thank you! The secret is my homemade BBQ sauce. It seems to adhere so well to the chicken.
Regarding the BBQ sauce it says 1/4. Is that a cup, tablespoon or teaspoon?
I apologize, I'm not seeing the 1/4 that you saw??? It is 1 cup of BBQ Sauce 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by.
Made it and it came out perfectly-had to go with 40min on the backside but it was still juicy and perfect. Thanks
Anna,
Thank you so much for stopping by to let me know you enjoyed the recipe. It makes me so happy that you did!
I’ve made it three times since my first reply and it always comes out perfect! thanks for the recipe. I’ll stick with this every time.
I’m so glad that you’re loving this recipe. It’s a go to classic for sure! 🙂
Looks amazing! Neither of the bbq sauce links work. They both go to a blank page
Thank you! Sorry about that…I’m not sure what happened with the links but I re-inserted them so they should be working fine now.