Spice rubbed roasted chicken breast and potatoes is a delicious meal without a lot of fuss. The bone-in chicken breasts take longer to cook than boneless, but the bones and skin help retain the moisture in the breasts. This chicken cut is also cheaper than boneless.
While I frequently espouse the virtues of cooking from scratch, I do realize many people do not have a ton of time to put into prepping dinner, and need easy dinner recipes. This bone in chicken breast recipe is perfect for that.
Roasted Chicken Breasts and Potatoes
While this roast chicken breasts and potatoes recipe does take a bit of time in the oven, the prep work is easy. It basically amounts to cutting potatoes, whisking together a few marinate ingredients and coating the chicken and potatoes with it.
You can serve a cold side like pea salad on the side or a simple vegetable side like baked asparagus or sauteed veggies to serve along with it, and dinner will be on the table in an hour, with some time in between to get a few other things done... or even relax 😉
Prefer to use the slow cooker? Try my Slow Cooker Chicken Thighs with Potatoes and Carrots. It is not spiced like this, but you can add the seasonings.
Chicken breasts and potatoes, coated & ready to cover with foil for baking.
This is a half portion of the recipe below, since it was just my daughter and I. use a large lasagna pan, roasting pan or even a sheet pan to prepare the full recipe.
Simply adjust the number of servings in the recipe card to suit your needs.
Now, try this recipe for baked chicken breast bone in with potatoes. It is a simple budget friendly family meal.
For another classic meat & potatoes meal try my Kielbasa and Potatoes or Slow Cooker Meatloaf.
Roast Chicken Breasts and Potatoes Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts bone-in, skin on
- 6-8 potatoes Yukon Gold or red-skinned are best
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon dry thyme
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 clove garlic crushed minced
- 2 tbs. olive oil
- 2 tbs. rice wine vinegar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Dice the potatoes and put in large mixing bowl.
- Whisk together the salt, spices, garlic, oil and vinegar.
- Pour most of mixture over the potatoes, and mix to coat them.
- Scoop out the potatoes and place in large baking dish or roast pan.
- Add the rest of the spice sauce to mixing bowl, then put in chicken breasts, and coat them well.
- Put the breasts on top of the potatoes bone side down. Cover dish snugly with foil, and bake for 30 minutes.
- Uncover and bake for 8-10 minutes to brown chicken. Reserve the foil.
- Remove the chicken so it doesn't dry out. Put on the foil and wrap loosely (It will be warm and perfectly rested when the potatoes are done).
- Stir the potatoes, then put them back in the oven, raise temp to 450, and bake for 8-10 more minutes.
- Serve with vegetable of choice.
Robin says
Easy enough and I know for a fact that everyone in my house would like it (and that's sadly not easy)!
Jenn says
That looks so good! I love that you can just throw the chicken and potatoes in there together and cook them all at once!
Robin says
Easy recipes are pretty much my saving grace. I don't have time during the week to prepare fancy schmancy dinners, so anything I can whip up quickly and easily is ok in my book.
Sarah says
How would you adjust the cooking for boneless, skinless breasts?
Robin says
I would bake the potatoes alone for the first 15-20 minutes, since boneless skinless chicken will take about 1/3 less time to cook. You will also get fewer juices dripping into potatoes, which is part of the flavoring, so you might want to add a little chicken base or few tbs. of stock to them.
Jodie says
If you use 6 smaller breast how much time would you recommend cooking them for?
Robin Gagnon says
If you have a meat thermometer handy check for an internal temp of 160. I would think knocking about 8 minutes off the first bake time and leaving the second as is would be about right. It will also depend on how tightly you pack them in.
Megan Colette says
I made this pretty much exactly following the recipe except I used Red Wine Vinegar (I had red wine vinegar and rice vinegar in my pantry but no rice wine vinegar) and I added an extra Tbsp. of it (the vinegar). Ohh and I could only find 2 breasts at the store so I added some thighs for the kids. But my chicken turned out tender and juicy, it tasted perfect. The potatoes were a little too flavorful but were cooked to perfection maybe I will omit the added tbsp of vinegar and they would be better tasting potatoes!