Oven-Baked Chicken with Cheese and Sour Cream
Very tasty, very fast, very simple, and very easy! Oven-baked chicken with cheese and sour cream can be served both on a festive table and on ordinary days. It’s a universal quick dish that pairs wonderfully with any vegetable salad or a light side dish. Perfect for a family dinner!
Updated : 12 January, 2026
Easy
About 20 min.
Ingredients
250 grams
Chicken fillet
2 tablespoon
Sour cream
80 grams
Hard cheese
to taste
Salt
1
Garlic
Table
Table of volume measurements:
- teaspoon - 5 ml
- dessert spoon - 10 ml
- tablespoon - 20 ml
- glass - 200 ml
Preparation
Step 1
How do you make oven-baked chicken with cheese and sour cream? Prepare the ingredients. You can use fillet from any part of the chicken: breast, thighs, or drumsticks. I’m using chicken breast. The poultry should be chilled (not frozen). Use natural sour cream of any fat content. If desired, you can replace it with heavy cream or mayonnaise. I still don’t recommend using mayonnaise, because it’s best not to heat it.
Step 2
Add minced garlic to the sour cream (or cream, or mayonnaise). I pressed it through a garlic press, but you can grate a clove on a fine grater or finely chop it with a knife.
Step 3
Grate the cheese on a coarse grater, add half of it to the sour cream, and mix.
Step 4
Rinse the chicken well, pat dry, and cut it as you like. The pieces can be any size you prefer.
Step 5
Prepare an oven-safe baking dish. Choose one with fairly high sides, because the chicken will release juices while baking and they may spill over. Place the chicken pieces in the dish.
Step 6
Salt the chicken. At this stage you can also add other favorite herbs or spices - perhaps hot ground pepper or khmeli-suneli. Among herbs, thyme and rosemary work especially well, or traditional fresh dill, parsley, or cilantro.
Step 7
Spoon the sour-cream sauce over the chicken and mix.
Step 8
Top with the remaining grated cheese.
Step 9
Cover the dish with foil, but make sure it doesn’t touch the cheese too tightly; otherwise the cheese will melt and stick to the foil. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C / 356°F for about 35 minutes. About 10 minutes before the end, you can remove the foil if you want a browned crust. Or keep it covered with foil for the entire time.
Step 10
Serve the baked chicken with cheese right away while it’s hot. Enjoy!
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