Name: Mediterranean Lemon Chicken
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 0
Ingredients: 1 lemon; 2 tsp rosemary; 3 minced garlic cloves, or more!; 1 tbsp. olive oil; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp pepper; 6 chicken pieces, bone in

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This Mediterranean Lemon Chicken recipe is a simple and delicious way to serve a hearty meal that’s bursting with fresh flavors! You’ll love the fresh citrus taste and how easy it is to put this dish together.

Lemon chicken with rice and peas. — This lemon chicken recipe is full of zingy lemon flavors and is so easy to make!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Graham’s getting creative in his kitchen again, this time coming up with another great chicken dinner. If you like lemon you will love this – the flavour adds a fantastic zing! Here’s his lemon chicken recipe.

We really enjoy using our homegrown chickens for this recipe. The taste is fantastic and we like knowing what goes into our food.

We also change up the type of our homegrown herbs we use in this dish. Most often we do use rosemary, but sometimes we substitute oregano or parsley instead.

Ingredients Needed

lemon – gives this dish a burst of fresh citrus flavor!
rosemary – a classic herb to pair with lemon and chicken.
garlic
olive oil
salt and pepper
chicken – I used pieces with the bone in, but the recipe can be altered for boneless chicken if you prefer!

How to Make Mediterranean Lemon Chicken

Lemon wedges and rosemary on a cutting board. — Lemons and rosemary are the perfect combination and really enhance the flavor of your chicken!

Preheat oven to 425 degrees and gather up your ingredients.
Grate the peel of half the lemon. Then cut the lemon and squeeze out 1/4 cup of lemon juice. We usually increase the amount, as we love lemony chicken.
Snip the rosemary leaves from the stem and discard the stem.
Add the rosemary leaves, garlic, salt and pepper. Stir well.
Remove the skin from the chicken and coat chicken with the lemon mixture. Put in a 9 x 13 baking dish, bone side up.
Cover and bake for 20 minutes. Reduce the oven to 400 and continue baking uncovered, for about 30 more minutes.
Baste the chicken every 10 minutes with the lemon juices. Serve with the pan juices over top.

Serving Suggestions and Variations

Enjoy this lemon chicken recipe alongside rice and vegetables like peas, broccoli, asparagus, or green beans.
If you use boneless chicken, be sure to reduce the cooking time by 10-15 minutes as it will cook faster than bone-in.
All kinds of herbs go great with this dish, so if you don’t have rosemary or want to include even more flavor, you could also use something like oregano or parsley.
For a dish with a little bit of heat, you could also sprinkle some red pepper flakes over your chicken.

Mediterranean Lemon Chicken in a dish, ready to be cooked. — Feel free to really pile on the garlic if that’s what you like; it goes so perfectly with the lemon and rosemary.

Why Lemons?

Lemons have wonderful qualities to improve your health and cleanse toxins from your body. I’ve been drinking two cups of hot water mixed with lemon juice a day!

We would love to be able to grow our own lemon trees outside here – what a treat that would be!

When we are lucky enough to spend time in California, we pick lemons and make our own lemonade!

More Recipes to Try

Our entire Country Living in a Cariboo Valley Recipe Collection can be found here, and here are some more recipes hand-picked for you!

These Bacon Wrapped Garlic Bites are hearty and absolutely packed with flavor. A perfect appetizer!
For another garlic-y dish, take a look at this Garlic Scape Pesto Pasta.
And in case you’re craving more citrus fruit, this Lemon Loaf Cake with Rosemary is a delicious dessert that takes the lemon and rosemary pairing in a sweet direction!

Easy Mediterranean Lemon Chicken Recipe

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