How To Make Greek Lemon Chicken One Pan Meal…

Greek Lemon Chicken is one of those easy-peasy meals that I feel as though you just can’t mess up. I have been cooking this dish for quite some time now, and it has been impressive every time I have cooked it. My family loves the freshness, the rice comes out perfect each and every time. I feel that one-pot meals are a win-win, especially when you already have so much to do at any given time. I also feel that this takes so much of the cooking pressure off of you. Greek Lemon Chicken is flavorful, filling, and fast. I mean really who wants to be standing all day at the stove.

Greek Lemon Chicken For The Win…

This is a simple one-pot dish that honestly takes no time to prepare. My family loves this, and I feel as though I am always winning when I cook this. My boys love that everything is there in the skillet, and there is no fuss. I have mastered a few one-pot dishes here on the blog lately. I find that chicken is an easy crowd-pleaser, and rice paired with the chicken is also a crowd-pleaser. My boys aren’t that hard to please. They do really well on the fly and planned cooking. Greek Lemon Chicken also pairs really well with fresh herbs. I love that I use fresh Thyme to saute into this dish.

Lemon Chicken Ingredients…

I find that the fresher the ingredients the better this dish turns out. The ingredient list for this dish is very short in my opinion, and the seasonings are just RIGHT!!

• Lemons (please no lemon juice out the bottle) fresh is better.
• Rice of your choice. ( I love long grain rice)
• Chicken breasts or thighs can work too.
• Fresh Thyme- this stuff is so good.
• Herbs de Provence or Italian Seasoning
• Garlic Powder
• Onion Powder
• Sea Salt or Himalayan Salt
• Chicken Broth (One container)

As you can see I am always going to choose fresh over bottled. The taste is literally unmatched when it comes to this dish. I will pretty much choose fresh over anything when I am cooking. If I don’t have any fresh ingredients, then yes I will work with what I have. We are dealing with a completely different era now, this recession has us looking at food very differently these days!

Greek Lemon Chicken

Arie J. Sawyer-Williams

Greek Lemon Chicken, a simple full flavored dish bursting with all the fresh simple ingredients

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 50 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr 5 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Mediterranean

Servings 8

Ingredients

  

• 3 lemons
• 1 sprig thyme
• 3 TBSP olive oil
• 1 onion (chopped)
• 3 cups rice
• 1 box chicken broth
• 4 8 oz chicken breasts or thighs (they can be split)
• 1 TBSP herbs de provence
• 1 tsp italian seasoning
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1 TBSP fresh garlic

Instructions

 

• Season your chicken breasts with all these seasoning mentioned above.
• Pound chicken breasts
• saute in a sauce pan, til browned
• Pull chicken off heat, and start on the rice mixture.
• Drop 3 TBSP of olive oil in a larg skillet, one that can be preferebly transferred tp oven.
• Medium heat put rice in pan with garlic, lemon slices, onions, and fresh thyme.
• Saute that all together. Please don't burn rice, make sure to babysit this dish a bit.
• One you have sauted all this a bit, pour in the chicken broth, and eyeball this so that your rice isnt' mushy.
• Next, place the chicken on top of the water mixture.
• Cover with foil, and place into the oven for about 45 minutes. last 5 minutes uncover and let brown up even more.

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Recently, I made Jalapeno Creamed Corn and it was so amaizng. It truly brought me back to my childhood love with my mom and grandmother. I find so many wonderfuy dishes that I grew up on that brings so many memories rushing in. If you give this dish a try make sure to tag me so that I can see your beautiful creation.