Baked Greek Lemon Chicken Recipe
This baked lemon chicken recipe can be on the table in under 30 minutes and uses just a few fresh ingredients you can pick up at your local grocery store.
Servings: 4
Calories: 216kcal
Ingredients
Marinade
- 2 TBS olive oil
- 1 TBS lemon zest zest of one medium lemon
- 2 TBS lemon juice juice from one medium lemon
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tsp dried oregano
- ½ tsp dried rosemary
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- ¼ cup kalamata olives pitted
- 1 TBS capers
Chicken
- 1 lb O Organics® Air Chilled Chicken boneless skinless chicken thighs
- kosher salt to taste
Instructions
Marinade
- Mix all of the marinade ingredients together until well combined.
Chicken
- Salt both sides of each piece of chicken individually.
- Add to marinade. Coat with marinade and massage marinade into chicken thighs.
- Allow chicken to marinate for at least 20 minutes and up to overnight.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Heat oven safe pan on the stove at medium-high heat.
- Add chicken + marinade to hot pan and cook for 3 minutes on one side.
- Flip chicken over in pan then immediately place pan in preheated oven.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes until chicken is cooked through. Time will depend on thickness of chicken thighs.
- Remove from oven and serve warm.
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Nutrition
Calories: 216kcal | Carbohydrates: 2g | Protein: 22g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 107mg | Sodium: 292mg | Potassium: 277mg | Vitamin A: 60IU | Vitamin C: 5.3mg | Calcium: 30mg | Iron: 1.4mg