Baked Lemon-Garlic Chicken with Bell Peppers
You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Baked Lemon-Garlic Chicken with Bell Peppers a try. This recipe serves 6. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 906 calories, 82g of protein, and 51g of fat per serving. If you have garlic cloves, bell pepper strips, garlic cloves, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the lemon you could follow this main course with the Lemon Shortbread Cookies with Lemon Icing From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.
Instructions
To prepare the sauce, combine the first 4 ingredients in a medium bowl, stirring with a whisk. Cover and chill 1/2 cup sauce.To prepare the chicken, combine remaining 1 cup sauce, bell peppers, and chicken in a large bowl, and toss to coat. Cover chicken mixture, and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.Preheat oven to 40
Remove chicken from bowl, and discard the sauce. Loosen the skin from the breast halves and leg quarters by inserting fingers, gently pushing between the skin and meat. Insert 2 lemon slices under loosened skin of each chicken piece.
Place the chicken pieces, loosened skin sides up, on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray.
Spread the bell peppers on broiler pan around chicken.
Bake at 400 for 50 minutes or until the chicken is done.
Remove the skin from the chicken. Arrange chicken and bell peppers on a platter, and keep warm.
Place 1/2 cup chilled sauce in a small saucepan, and cook over medium heat 3 minutes or until warm.
Pour warm sauce over the baked chicken and bell peppers.