Easy Cajun Chicken Breasts

Easy and delicious.

If you don't want to use Cajun Spices feel free to use the spices of your choice.

Ingredients

Bone in Chicken Breasts

Olive Oil

Cajun Spice Blend (click here for recipe) or use store bought.

Directions

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

Use an iron skillet or a heavy skillet that can go straight from the stove top to the oven if you have one. Otherwise you'll need a fry pan and an oven safe dish.

While the oven is preheating, coat the chicken breasts with the olive oil and sprinkle liberally with your seasonings of choice.

Preheat the skillet. (if you're using a fry pan and and oven safe dish, preheat the dish in the oven).

 Place the breasts, skin side down in the hot skillet (do not add oil to the pan). When the skin is a little crispy (roughly 3-5 minutes) flip the breasts over and allow to cook another 3 minutes.

Place the pan in the oven and bake until the chicken reaches 160-165 on a meat thermometer or until it loses the springy texture when you push down on the meat. Timing will vary depending on the size of the chicken breasts, mine took about 20 minutes.

Remove from the oven, leave the chicken in the pan and cover with aluminum foil, let rest for 10-15 minutes. This gives you time to heat up a side dish.

We had steamed green beans with bacon. To prepare the beans, snap or cut off the ends and snap or cut them into bite sized pieces. Slice 2 or 3 pieces of bacon into 1/2 pieces.  

Put a steamer basket in a deep pan, add an inch or so of water (do not let water come above the steamer basket bottom) Add the beans mixed with bacon pieces and set on high heat. Once the water starts to boil, cover and let steam until the beans a cooked crisp, about 8-10 minutes.

Serve~!