Name: Baked Lemon Chicken
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 8 people
Ingredients: 6-8 pieces of sin-on (bone-in chicken or one whole chicken cut up); 1 pound mini red potatoes (washed); 1/2 onion (sliced); 2 lemons (1 sliced and 1 juiced); 1/3 cup olive oil; 2 cloves garlic minced; 1 tablespoon fresh thyme plus sprigs for garnish; 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper

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This Baked Lemon Chicken Recipe is easy, light and so flavorful you want to make it again and again! A simple weeknight meal your family will rave about, yet fancy enough to entertain guests.

This recipe originally appeared on Real Housemoms

Easy Baked Lemon Chicken Recipe

Is it just me or does life seem like it just keeps getting busier and busier?!? For me, weeknights definitely call for easy recipes everyone around our table will eat. This Baked Lemon Chicken sounds a little fancy, but is so flavorful and simple you’ll want to put it on your meal plan week after week – it’s that easy!

This dish is one of our all-time favorite recipes, whether as comfort food for the family or to serve when friends are over. It tastes wonderful any time of year.

With the addition of potatoes, it’s a meal waiting to happen! The lemon, chicken and potatoes come together to create the perfect flavor combination.

It doesn’t get much easier than turning your oven on, cutting up your onions and lemon, placing all your ingredients in a baking pan and getting to enjoy a delicious and hearty dinner in about an hour.

The other great thing about this easy recipe is minimal dishes. If you know me, than you know I don’t exactly love doing dishes, so one-pot meals like this Mexican Chicken, Rice and Veggie Casserole are always in rotation.

How to Make Baked Lemon Chicken

Once you put some non-stick spray in you baking pan, you just need to put your chicken pieces (skin side up is best), yummy potatoes, sliced onion and lemon slices in your pan.

Next, you mix up a yummy concoction of lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, thyme, crushed red pepper flakes, and salt and pepper. Pour this mixture all over your chicken and potatoes, coating all ingredients evenly. I just love the lemon and garlic combo!

Finally, place it in the oven and bake uncovered for about 1 hour, or until chicken and potatoes are fully cooked. It’s that easy!! Grabs some veggies and dinner is done!

Tips for Making Lemon Chicken

This Lemon and Garlic Chicken Recipe calls for skin-on chicken. You may not be one of those people that cares for poultry skin, but do cook with the skin-on if you can. Cooking with the skin on not only protects the meat from drying out (we aren’t fans of dry chicken around here), but more importantly, the chicken gets bathed with the rich flavor from the skin while it cooks! Mouth-watering good!
For convenience, you can definitely prep this recipe the night before and pop it in the oven when it’s time for dinner or when you get home from work.
In a pinch, you can use dried herbs. However, because dried herbs are generally a bit more potent and concentrated than fresh herbs, you’ll need approximately 1 teaspoon of dried thyme in the recipe.
This chicken dish pairs well with sautéed asparagus, green beans, or broccoli.

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Baked Lemon Chicken

This Baked Lemon Chicken Recipe is easy, light and so flavorful you want to make it again and again! A simple weeknight meal your family will rave about, yet fancy enough to entertain guests.

Course dinner

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes

Servings 8 people

Calories 134kcal

Author Erin Henry

Ingredients

6-8 pieces of sin-on bone-in chicken or one whole chicken cut up
1 pound mini red potatoes washed
1/2 onion sliced
2 lemons 1 sliced and 1 juiced
1/3 cup olive oil
2 cloves garlic minced
1 tablespoon fresh thyme plus sprigs for garnish
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Spray a 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish with cooking spray. Arrange chicken pieces (skin side up), potatoes, sliced onion and lemon slices in pan.
In a small bowl, mix together lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, thyme, crushed red pepper flakes, and salt and pepper. Pour mixture all over chicken and potatoes, coating all ingredients evenly.
Bake uncovered for about 1 hour, or until chicken and potatoes are fully cooked. Chicken is done when it reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit.