Italian Baked Chicken with Sausage
This Italian Baked Chicken with Sausage only takes 35 minutes from prep to table! For a weeknight dinner with only 5 ingredients, it is impressive. Throw a veggie on the plate and dinner is served. This easy Italian sausage bake recipe is low carb, keto, gluten-free, grain-free, sugar-free, and Trim Healthy Mama friendly.
This recipe was born one night when it was 5:30 and I had no idea what I was going to make for dinner. I turned on the oven and started pan-searing chicken. And then I just winged it. We had already had chicken a few nights that week so I needed to dress it up a bit. I decided to smother it with sausage, tomato sauce, and provolone cheese. I got this on the table from start to finish in 35 minutes! I even impressed myself.
My husband is a meat guy. Most nights I have to remind him to serve himself some of the vegetables too. He loved this easy Italian chicken dinner. He is also Italian so anything with any type of tomato sauce or sausage normally gets a big thumbs up. If it has both sauce and sausage it gets two thumbs up.
How to Make Italian Baked Chicken with Sausage
Preheat the oven to 400.
Season the chicken breasts with garlic salt.
Brown the chicken in a skillet over medium high heat.
Transfer to a baking dish and put in the oven. Bake for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, in the same frying pan, cook the sausage until golden. Break it up into small pieces using a potato masher or spatula.
Top the par-cooked chicken with keto marinara sauce and sausage. Bake until the cheese melts.
Alternatively, you can top it with Tomato and Mascarpone Sauce!
What to serve with Italian Baked Chicken
I served this with roasted asparagus. I just trim it, drizzle it with a little olive oil and sea salt, and put in a preheated 400-degree oven on a cookie sheet until tender.
You could also serve it with homemade Caesar salad, Garlic Broccoli, steamed green beans, or with zucchini noodles. A side of Keto Garlic Bread Rounds turns this into a feast!
Here are some of our other favorite Low Carb Italian Recipes!
Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore
Tired of Italian? Try this Keto French Onion Soup Chicken next!
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Italian Baked Chicken with Sausage
Ingredients
- 4-5 chicken breasts cut in half if they are thick
- 1 tsp garlic salt
- 1 lb sausage casings removed
- 1 cup marinara sauce no sugar added
- 8 oz sliced provolone cheese or sub mozzarella
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400. Sprinkle the chicken with the garlic salt. Spray a large frying pan with cooking spray. Brown the chicken over medium high heat. (I did it in two batches). Transfer to a baking dish and put in the oven. Bake for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in the same frying pan cook the sausage until golden. Break it up into small pieces using a potato masher or spatula.
- Remove the par-cooked chicken from the oven and top with the tomato sauce and then the sausage crumbles. Bake for 10 minutes. Top with the slices of cheese. Bake for an additional 5-10 minutes until the chicken is 160 on a meat thermometer.
Nutrition
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Originally Published June 7, 2016. Revised and Republished March 16, 2019.
Thanks for the idea! Making it now but didn’t have Italian sausage so I used ground breakfast sausage and also didn’t have the cheese so using Boursin lol crossing fingers ;).
That sounds like a great combo!
Would this be ok using chorizo instead of Italian sausage?
Sure!
is this ground sausage or sausage links?
Ground sausage or links if you remove the casing.
Are you just browning the outside of the chicken in the skillet? or are you cooking it all the way through before putting it in the oven?
Just browning the outside.
A huge hit with the entire family tonight! Staying at an Airbnb for a month and needed delicious recipes that wouldn’t require too many extra little ingredients to buy and would work for high protein, low carb nutrition. Ten thumbs up since even the toddler devoured it! Never would have thought to combine the two meats on my own, so thanks for sharing!
This was just okay to myself and my boyfriend. I’m trying to find some great recipes for following THM life and I believe this was just too much meat for my liking. It has excellent flavor and the chicken was very tender but it was too much meat and also felt like it was missing something to make it stand out. I would definitely recommended people trying this for themselves and forming their own opinion though!
Thank you for this recipe, Taryn! It was a hit at my house tonight. I had all the ingredients in the fridge!
I am making this on the stove top in one pan. I browned the sausage with some onions and garlic. Deskinned the chicken. Threw some leftover peppers and some Olive oil in the pan. Put the chicken in the pan. Put lid on pan and cooked for 20 minutes. I usedbloody Mary mix because I didn’t have tomato sauce. Then I put cheese on top and put in oven to brown. Yummy
We made this tonight and it was SO good! I added some Italian Seasoning to the sauce, but otherwise followed it exactly!
Where’s the garlic come in?
You sprinkle the garlic salt on the chicken before cooking it.
Did you use Italian sausage?
Yes
I’m new to THM – so is this an S or E meal?
Thx!
S
when trying to print the recipe, it comes up blank. The picture is there but the written words of the recipe are not.
I’m not sure why that’s happening. I just checked on my phone and the words are there. Are you desktop or mobile?
This looks delicious! Pinning.
This looks really good! Can’t wait to try it!