Mediterranean Lemon Chicken

Name: Mediterranean Lemon Chicken
Prep time: 1 h 5 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 6 chicken legs; 3 cloves garlic, minced; 0 teaspoons ground black pepper; 1 lemon; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 2 teaspoons dried oregano; 0 teaspoons salt

Mediterranean Lemon Chicken might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. This gluten free, dairy free, and primal recipe serves 6. One portion of this dish contains roughly 21g of protein, 23g of fat, and a total of 306 calories. 497 people found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying. Head to the store and pick up salt, lemon, ground pepper, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the lemon you could follow this main course with the Lemon Shortbread Cookies with Lemon Icing

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).

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Oven

In a 9x13 inch baking dish, grate the peel from 1/2 the lemon, squeeze out the juice (about 1/4 cup) and add to peel with the oregano, garlic, oil, salt and pepper. Stir until mixed.

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Salt And Pepper

Oregano

Garlic

Juice

Lemon

Cooking Oil

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Baking Pan

Remove skin from chicken pieces and discard. Coat chicken pieces with the lemon mixture and arrange, bone-side up, in the baking dish. Cover dish and bake for 20 minutes. Turn and baste chicken.

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Chicken Pieces