Make this baked teriyaki chicken for a quick and flavorful dinner. Juicy chicken is coated in a sweet and savory homemade teriyaki sauce and baked to perfection. Serve with rice and veggies for a complete meal.
Don’t you just love the recipes that only take one or two pans, and not much active time? I know I do! They make dinner quick and easy and clean up even easier as well. Those busy weeknights that we all have with the entire family going different ways tend to call for just this type of easy dinner: Teriyaki Chicken Bake.
I decided to try a simple recipe that would use just one pot and one baking sheet. I love teriyaki flavoring, especially when it’s homemade. A homemade sauce tastes so much better than any bottled sauce you can buy from the store. And it’s so easy to make with simple ingredients.
Another goal for this year has been to try to eat more healthily and to make sure we eat more vegetables every day. So I figured out ways to work some broccoli and bell peppers into this as well. Next time I want to try with some snap peas.
And, of course, since I was making this with some brown rice, it gave me yet another excuse to break out one of my favorite kitchen gadgets, my rice steamer. It makes the rice perfectly and takes about the same amount of time as the chicken did, so it was all ready at the same time.
If you enjoy teriyaki flavor as much as I do, you should also check out my recipe for Teriyaki Chicken Noodle Bowl, inspired by one of our family favorite restaurants (Bentos) that we used to go to often when we lived in Orlando a few years ago.
Why You’ll Love Baked Teriyaki Chicken
Baked teriyaki chicken is the perfect balance of sweet and savory. The sauce soaks into the chicken while it cooks, keeping it juicy and flavorful. It’s a one-pan dinner that’s simple enough for busy weeknights yet delicious enough to serve to guests. Plus, the leftovers taste even better the next day, making it a great meal prep option.
Ingredients for Teriyaki Chicken
This recipe uses pantry-friendly ingredients you may already have on hand. Chicken breasts or thighs, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, brown sugar, and honey come together to create a sauce that’s both rich and slightly tangy. A touch of sesame oil and rice vinegar enhances the flavor, and cornstarch helps thicken the sauce so it coats every bite.
Storage and Reheating Tips
Store leftover baked teriyaki chicken in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to four days. To reheat, place the chicken in a skillet with a splash of water or extra teriyaki sauce to keep it moist. You can also warm it in the microwave in short intervals, stirring the sauce in between to prevent it from drying out.
Variations to Try
This dish is easy to customize to your taste. Swap chicken breasts for thighs if you prefer darker meat, or add crushed red pepper flakes for a little heat. For a lower-sodium version, use reduced-sodium soy sauce and cut back on the sugar. You can also add pineapple chunks or bell peppers to the pan before baking for a sweet and colorful twist.
Serving Suggestions & Tips
- If your whole family prefers other cuts of chicken, try this with juicy chicken thighs, chicken wings, or chicken tenders.
- Serve the chicken and vegetables over white rice or brown rice.
- Sweeten up your teriyaki sauce by mixing in a little bit of brown sugar.
- Double the easy homemade teriyaki sauce to have extra sauce for dipping.
- For easier cleanup, line your baking sheet with aluminum foil or parchment paper or grease with olive oil or sesame oil.
- Garnish with sliced green onion, sesame seeds, or pineapple bits.
- Make this with the fresh veggies of your choosing such as bell peppers, broccoli, green beans, snow peas, cauliflower, or sliced yellow onion.
Baked Teriyaki Chicken FAQ
Yes, chicken thighs work wonderfully in baked teriyaki chicken. They are naturally juicier and add even more flavor to the dish. Just adjust the cooking time slightly, as thighs may need a few extra minutes to cook through.
To make this recipe gluten-free, substitute regular soy sauce with tamari or coconut aminos. Double-check any other packaged ingredients, such as rice vinegar or sesame oil, to ensure they are certified gluten-free.
Absolutely. You can prepare the sauce in advance and store it in the refrigerator for up to three days. When ready to cook, simply pour it over the chicken and bake as directed. You can also bake the chicken completely and reheat it later for a quick meal.
Steamed rice is the classic choice, but you can also serve baked teriyaki chicken with quinoa, noodles, or even mashed potatoes. Vegetables like broccoli, snap peas, or carrots add a nice crunch and balance the rich sauce.
If you prefer a thicker sauce, whisk together a teaspoon of cornstarch with a tablespoon of water, then stir it into the sauce before baking. The heat will help the sauce thicken and cling to the chicken perfectly.
Teriyaki Chicken Bake Step by Step
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 3/4 cup soy sauce
- 1 tbsp garlic (minced)
- 4 tbsp honey
- 1 lb chicken breast (boneless, skinless)
- 2 cups vegetables (bell pepper, broccoli, green beans, etc.)
- salt and pepper (to taste)
Instructions
In a small bowl, whisk the water and cornstarch together.
In a small saucepan, combine the soy sauce, cornstarch slurry, minced garlic, and honey. Keep it over medium heat until it starts to bubble and thicken, then remove from the heat.
On a baking sheet, place the chicken breasts in the middle, and surround it with whatever vegetables you want for your meal in a single layer.
Then sprinkle it with a bit of salt and pepper.
Cover the top of the chicken and all of the vegetables with the teriyaki sauce and bake for about 20-25 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through reaching an internal temperature of 165F on a meat thermometer.
After it’s done baking, slice the chicken and serve it warm over the rice.
Add your vegetables to the bowl and garnish. I also like to add just a bit of the sticky homemade teriyaki sauce to the top, so the rice isn’t too dry.
Teriyaki Chicken Bake Leftovers
Storage: Let the chicken and vegetables cool to room temperature before placing them in an airtight container. Refrigerate for up to 3 days.
Reheating: The best way to reheat easy baked chicken teriyaki is in a saucepan over medium heat until warmed through. If it’s dry, add your own teriyaki sauce, a bit of soy sauce, or some chicken broth as it warms.
Recipe
Originally Published On: January 10, 2018
Last Updated On: September 17, 2025
Teriyaki Chicken Bake
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 3/4 cup soy sauce
- 1 tbsp garlic (minced)
- 4 tbsp honey
- 1 lb chicken breast (boneless, skinless)
- 2 cups vegetables (bell pepper, broccoli, green beans, etc.)
- Salt & Pepper (to taste)
Recommended Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400F
- In a medium saucepan, whisk together the soy sauce, honey, and garlic
- In a small bowl, mix the water and cornstarch, then add to the soy sauce
- Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until the sauce starts to bubble and thicken, then remove from the heat
- Slice and chop the vegetables
- On a parchment paper-lined baking sheet put a small amount of sauce in the middle and lay the chicken breast on top (to keep it from sticking)
- Surround the chicken with your vegetables of choice
- Season the chicken and vegetables with salt and pepper
- Drizzle the remaining teriyaki sauce on the chicken and vegetables
- Bake for about 20-25 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through
- Slice cooked chicken and serve warm, with vegetables, over cooked rice if desired
All nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutrition content will vary based on brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes, and more.
Teriyaki Flavor
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I love love that you did this all on one pan! Definitely going to try this for dinner tonight as I have been struggling to come up with ideas and one pot is my preferred way to go!
Since I tend to be the one to cook and clean, I love one-pot meals as well!
I love teriyaki chicken and this looks delicious! Perfect timing because we were wondering what we should have tonight!
Teriyaki chicken is the best! I hope you and your family enjoyed the meal!!
I will have to try this one of these nights for dinner! I love the taste of teriyaki dishes (never attempted to make it myself though) Nows the time, right?! thanks for the recipe ; )
I’ve made the sauce a few times now, and was very surprised at how quick and easy it is to make it homemade!
Love that this was done with pretty much one pan! I recently moved into an apartment with no dishwasher (though I was told there was one in the unit) so finding one pan recipes has become a bit of an obsession in my downtime seeing as I don’t have much time for washing dishes each night.
Oh my gosh, I remember when our dishwasher went out for a week. I never realized how many dishes we used until I was hand washing every single one of them!
Love how simple this is! Perfect for dinner or for lunches for the week!!
If we hadn’t eaten it all, I was going to separate it out as lunches for the week!
I am really hungry now!!! This is definitely a meal I will be making for my family! I loved every that it’s healthy and looks super delicious!!
I hope you and your family enjoy this when you get a chance to make it! It’s so easy to make.
Quick and easy is exactly the kind of recipe I like! Looks delicious and healthy too.
Me too! With two little kids running around, I often need meals I can make quickly!
This looks so awesome. I would love try this out. I’m just sorry my daughter really doesn’t like teriyaki all that much because I love it.
My mom doesn’t either so my dad only makes it when we are in town. You could try to make one of the chickens with teriyaki and put other seasonings on the other for your daughter.
Yum. Yum. Yum. Quick, Easy, & Teriyaki is my favorite. Why do you always have the best recipes?
Thank you! We love to experiment and try all kinds of new recipes, it gives me a lot to write about!
I want to try that dish too for my family,so easy to do in just one pot!
I love when it’s only one pan, so many less dishes to worry about later! I hope you and your family enjoys this.
YUM!!! I’m always looking for quick and yummy meals to make for my family since we are always running around! Will definitely try this one.
My boys are young enough that we aren’t always on the go just yet, but it isn’t easy to cook long and drawn out recipes with them around either so I need quick and easy most nights as well.
All of those veggies paired with that full flavored sauce will be a perfect winter comfort meal for me! Looks so good!
This was definitely some comfort food! It was so warm and delicious!
I love sheet pan recipes!! I usually do fajitas this way but this also looks fantastic. I bet I could sub for soy and be good to go!
I haven’t tried sheet pan fajitas yet, but I have seen a few recipes. We love fajitas, I’ll have to try that out soon.
YES! I am always sold when I hear that it only takes one or two pans! Makes such a big difference!! Plus, Teriyaki Chicken is SOOOOO good!
Girl, me too! My boys go to bed at 7 so I don’t have much time to do dishes if we want time to play together before bedtime!
Mmm that glaze looks so delicious, I love how easy this is to throw together too!
I’ve had storebought teriyaki before and it doesn’t taste near as fresh and delicious as making it myself!
What a simple way to fix a great meal! All the parts in one pan sure makes clean up much easier.
We love meals with easy cleanup! You do have two because the sauce is made in a saucepot and the chicken and veggies on the sheet pan, but that’s it!
We eat some sort of chicken 4 times a week at least so I am always looking for ways to spice it up!
We eat a lot of chicken here, too. Teriyaki is a great blast of flavor if you want something new!
I am away this week to attend my daughter’s graduation. I can tell you the first meal I am going to cook when I go back home is that delicious chicken teriyaki. I haven’t had that for a while. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I hope you have a great time with your daughter! I was in south Florida last weekend for my cousin’s high school graduation. It’s always nice to have a plan for a good easy dinner when you get home.
I love that this is all in one pan! It’s the best kind of meal, in my opinion! We actually just tried green beans in the oven the other day with some sesame chicken and I was SO impressed with how they turned out. It’s nice that with this recipe you could mix in whatever veggies you had around. Yum!
Oh, sesame chicken sounds good, too! This is a great way to use up some veggies before they possibly go bad.
Can I just tell you that life has been hitting the fan lately with the end of the school year??? Most days I’m too busy to have time to THINK, even, so on the rare nights I actually GET to cook, I have been loving how fast and easy your recipes are! Thank you!!!
Girl, don’t I know it! Two kids at two different schools, plus I am in charge of the yearbook at the elementary school. We’ve been doing super easy meals lately, including a night or two of grilled cheese sandwich and peanut butter and honey sandwich!
This is an wonderful idea and easy to make as we have teriyaki sauce here in Japan. I don’t have a big oven, it is ok to cook it in a pan?
I think it would work fine in a pan, too. It may not glaze quite as much as the oven, but the flavors would still infuse into the chicken and veggies.
oooh…this looks awesome. Teriyaki chicken is one of my favorites. I’m gonna try this.
Mine too! My dad used to make it all the time, and I hadn’t had it in so long since I don’t care for bottled teriyaki sauce.
You had me at quick and easy. Lol. I live the flavor of teriyaki but don’t make it often. I’ll have to change that!
I know, sometimes a quick and easy meal is what we need after a long day!
This looks so yummy as well as healthy. I love your recipes , they are easy to follow. I am going to try this soon too. Thank you so much..
It’s definitely both! I hope you enjoy the meal, it’s a perfect one to make on busy nights when you don’t have a lot of time to cook.
I love homemade teriyaki sauce so much better than restaurant or store bought…its amazing and this recipe looks so healthy
Me too! It’s so much better when you make it yourself and have control over the ingredients.
Ooo I am feeling Friday hunger already thanks to this lovely foodie post. Love the look of all those fresh veggies xx
The veggies were great with the homemade teriyaki sauce on them!
This meal looks like it would be so very good! I love teriyaki as a sauce – so we would devour this!
Teriyaki is one of my favorite sauces, too. It goes so great on chicken!
I tried one of you recipes yesterday and it turned out great. The only problem is I let it get to my head and now my friends and family can’t live in peace. Haha. Thank you so much and keep on sharing.
I’ll save this one for next weekend.
Thank you! I love hearing that my recipes are helping others out in the kitchen and giving you new recipes to try!
I like this type of smart dishes for busy time and still have the teriyaki sauce left over from the grill from the long weekend..
I think I will use it in the evening in a similar way, I will only replace chicken on tofu 🙂
Oh that would be perfect! It makes such a quick and easy meal.
I try this recipe and its delicious, its very easy to prepare it, I Recommended for everyone it.
Thanks for sharing! We love quick and easy meals and it doesn’t get much easier than this one.
What a quick and easy recipe! It looks so delicious!
It’s definitely all of that, quick, easy, and so yummy!
I never thought Teryaki chicken would be that easy to make! I am cooking it this weekend yummm.
It can be as easy as that! Of course, I like homemade foods, but you can also buy teriyaki sauce at the store if you need something even quicker than this.
Some of the BEST dishes are teriyaki based. At least that’s my opinion.
I agree, teriyaki has always been a favorite flavor of mine.
That will be on our table tomorrow. Not only I have all the ingredients, but we all also love Teriaky at home. Thanks for this great recipe, we will have an awesome Friday.
Oh, sounds perfect! I hope you do have an awesome Friday, with the meal and all day 🙂
Delicious recipe and making it in one pan is really handy when it comes to traveler or students who study aboard. Because there is no time and might not have the money to buy a couple of pans.
I hadn’t even thought about the ease for travelers and students. As a busy mom, that’s usually the first thing I think of.
This looks super delicious! I have noticed Teriyaki sauce at the store, will get it and try this recipe soon ☺ Great recipe as always ❤
I love the flavor of teriyaki. I’ve made this with homemade and store-bought and both work well for it.