Chicken with Lemon, Oregano, and Feta Cheese

Name: Chicken with Lemon, Oregano, and Feta Cheese
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp butter, cut into 4 pieces; 1 kilograms chicken , quartered; 79 milliliters 1/2 ounces feta cheese, crumbled (about; 0 teaspoons fresh-ground black pepper; 1 Tbsp lemon juice; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 2 teaspoons dried oregano; 0 teaspoons salt

Chicken with Lemon, Oregano, and Feta Cheese might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. This recipe makes 4 servings with 823 calories, 65g of protein, and 60g of fat each. This recipe covers 26% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, primal, and fodmap friendly diet. Head to the store and pick up salt, olive oil, feta cheese, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the butter you could follow this main course with the Cinnamon Butter Cake as a dessert.

Instructions

Heat the oven to 37

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Oven

Coat the chicken with the oil; arrange the pieces, skin-side up, in a large roasting pan.

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Whole Chicken

Cooking Oil

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Roasting Pan

Sprinkle the chicken with the oregano, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Top each piece of chicken with a piece of the butter.

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Lemon Juice

Whole Chicken

Oregano

Butter

Pepper

Salt

Cook the chicken until the breasts are just done, about 30 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

Remove the breasts and continue to cook the legs until done, about 5 minutes longer.

Remove the roasting pan from the oven; return the breasts to the pan. Top the chicken pieces with the feta cheese. Press any cheese that rolls off into the pan back onto the chicken. Baste the chicken with the pan juices.

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Chicken Pieces

Feta Cheese

Whole Chicken

Cheese

Roll

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Roasting Pan

Oven

Heat the broiler. Broil the chicken until golden brown, about 2 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

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Serve with the pan juices.

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Menu Suggestions: Balance the tanginess of lemon and feta with a mild side dish such as orzo tossed with a little olive oil or sauted zucchini.

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Olive Oil

Zucchini

Lemon

Feta Cheese

Orzo

Wine Recommendation: This Greek-flavored dish will go nicely with a number of rustic, spicy red wines. Try finding a bottle from the Greek island of Paros or Santorini. Another alternative would be a syrah-based wine such as a Crozes-Hermitage from the northern Rhne Valley in France.

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