Baked Chicken and Gravy
Baked chicken and gravy is a budget-friendly meal that is perfect any time of year. The chicken and gravy recipe is super easy to make, filling, and delicious.
The recipe only requires four ingredients, which you can make and have in the oven baking in less than ten minutes.
Ingredients for Baked Chicken and Gravy
- 3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. pepper
- 1/4 cup milk
- 3 oz. cream cheese (softened)
- 1 – 10.5 oz. can cream of celery soup
Get the full printable recipe below in the recipe card with instructions.
You can eat this baked chicken and gravy over rice, mashed potatoes, or with some veggies.
If you love easy recipes, give this Crock Pot lemon chicken a try, or this baked chicken breast recipe that takes about five minutes to get in the oven.
How Do You Make Chicken Gravy?
It’s super easy. I am telling ya, I love cream cheese. It’s inexpensive, and it makes a dish taste much creamier. So, any meal that starts with cream cheese is a good one in my book.
The great thing about this recipe is that the homemade gravy ingredients that you’re adding on top of the chicken blend together well and taste amazing. You can spread the simple gravy recipe over mashed potatoes or rice.
Add the softened cream cheese and one can of cream of celery soup. If you forgot to set the cream cheese out to soften, that’s ok. I never remember to set it out. It will mix up just fine.
Add the salt, pepper, and milk and mix it up.
Get your chicken ready. I used three breasts for this recipe. It fed all four of us, including those two growing boys.
Now that the kids are a little older and hungrier, I would add a fourth breast to the recipe.
Spread the cream cheese mixture over the chicken. You will be turning it over once, halfway through the baking process.
The juices from the baked chicken will add even more liquid to the gravy, so you will have plenty to spread around.
I baked the chicken for a little over an hour at 350 degrees. You can turn up the heat and lower the time if you want to get supper on the table a little faster.
Turn the chicken over once, halfway through the baking time.
This is one of my favorite baked chicken recipes.
Mashed potatoes and green beans are great side dishes for baked chicken and gravy. There’s enough gravy to spread on your potatoes, as well.
Other side dishes to serve with chicken and gravy:
- Oven baked potato wedges
- Southern homemade butter beans
- Cheesy diced baked potatoes
- Slow cooker glazed carrots with brown sugar
Can I Make Baked Chicken in a Convection Oven?
Yes, you can make the chicken in a convection oven. Turn the convection oven to 400 degrees. Place the chicken in the pan, add the rest of the ingredients, and cook for approximately 45 to 50 minutes.
I have a convection oven that is also a microwave, and it’s handy to use when the standard oven is being used for something else. Plus, if you want the chicken to cook faster, all the way through, the convection oven is the way to go.
For this recipe, I used a standard oven.
What Should the Baked Chicken Breast Internal Temperature Be?
The internal temperature of the chicken should be 165 degrees when finished cooking, whether using a convection oven or a standard oven.
If you’re going to use a standard oven, like the one I use in this recipe, you will still need the temperature to rise to 165 degrees.
If you’re eating dark meat, the temperature should also get to 165 degrees. To find out the temperature, you can use a digital thermometer to get the results. I bought my instant-read thermometer at the grocery store.
Place the thermometer into the thickest part of the chicken breast to get the reading, making sure you don’t allow the thermometer to touch any part of the pan, or you might get an incorrect reading.
If you are cooking chicken with bones, make sure the thermometer rests inside of the meat and does not touch the bone, or you will get an incorrect reading.
Check out the baked chicken and gravy recipe card below, grab those ingredients, and start cooking! I love baked chicken recipes, and I think you’ll love this one, too.
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Baked Chicken and Gravy
Ingredients
- 3-4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. pepper
- 1/4 cup milk
- 3 oz. cream cheese softened
- 1 – 10.5 oz. can cream of celery soup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350-degrees.
- In a medium-sized bowl, add the cream cheese, salt, pepper, milk, and cream of celery soup. Mix until well blended.
- Place the chicken in a casserole dish.
- Cover the chicken with the cream cheese mixture and place in the oven.
- Bake for 40 minutes and turn the chicken once.
- Bake 40 more minutes, or until chicken is done.
