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How To Make the Easiest Lemon Garlic Chicken

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Portions: 4 servings

Calories: 541kcal

Dinner is served! Rubbed with fresh garlic and infused with lemon, this chicken is savory, crunchy, and ridiculously easy to cook. Make a lemon garlic chicken one-pot meal with chicken, sweet potatoes, carrots, and a lemon garlic marinade. This easy chicken casserole recipe is cooked in 30 minutes.

Why I ā¤ļø it • Recipe • Ingredients • Video • Preparation

Lemon and garlic chicken.

Chicken in lemon garlic marinade.

Why I ā¤ļø it

If you're looking for a new, great one-step chicken dish to serve, this simple lemon and garlic chicken recipe will make you fall in love with your new favorite dinner recipe.

Chicken, sweet potato, carrot, and magical garlic and lemon flavors. This is a very flexible dish, so you can use chicken breast in lieu of thighs, and add more vegetables if you so wish.

Lemon garlic chicken recipe

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The lemon and garlic sauce is a surprising combination of sweet, sour, and tangy that's also easy and quick to make. The chicken is marinated in it, and the vegetables bathe in the released chicken broth and sauce, absorbing all the flavors.

Course: Dinner, Lunch
Inspiration: American, Fusion
Category: garlic lemon sauce for chicken, lemon chicken recipe, lemon garlic sauce
Author: Clara Gonzalez

Prep Time2 hrs 15 mins
Cook Time30 mins
Total Time2 hrs 45 mins

Utensils and tools

  • Mixing bowl
  • Skillet
Lemon garlic chicken.
Lemon garlic chicken.

Ingredients

Garlic lemon sauce / marinade

  • ½ cup lemon juice, (or ¼ cup lime juice + ¼ cup of orange juice)
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons garlic powder
  • ¼ cup ketchup
  • 2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon of freshly-cracked black pepper

For the chicken and veggies

  • 1 large white onion, cut into cubes
  • 2 bell peppers, cut into cubes
  • 12 chicken thighs, or 12 drumsticks
  • 2 cups of peeled and cubed sweet potato
  • 2 cups of peeled and cubed carrots
  • Some chopped parsley, rosemary, or fresh thyme to garnish.

Video

Preparation

Before starting, please make sure you have all the ingredients and utensils ready.

Step 1: Making the sauce / marinade

Mixing lemon garlic chicken marinade.
Mixing lemon garlic chicken marinade.

Mix all the sauce ingredients for the sauce (lemon juice, brown sugar, garlic powder, ketchup, salt, and pepper).

Step 2: Season the chicken

Coating chicken with lemon garlic marinade.
Coating chicken with lemon garlic marinade.

Place chicken thighs in a bowl and stir in the onion and bell pepper. Add the sauce mixture, moving around until the meat is coated with the sauce.

Cover and marinate for at least two hours in the fridge.

Step 3: Cooking

Chicken and vegetables ready for the oven.
Chicken and vegetables ready for the oven.

Heat the oven to medium-high heat (350 ĀŗC [180 ĀŗC]).

Place the sweet potatoes and carrots in a baking pan. Put the chicken legs (and onion and bell pepper) on top of the vegetables, and drizzle everything with the sauce in which the chicken marinated.

Roast for 30 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through and lightly golden.

Step 3: Serving

Serving lemon garlic chicken.
Serving lemon garlic chicken.

Remove from the oven and sprinkle with fresh herbs.

Top tips

  • Line the bottom of the pan with aluminum foil for easy cleaning later on if you use a metal baking pan.
  • You can save the leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 2 days in an airtight container.
Garlic lemon chicken.
Garlic lemon chicken.

Serving suggestions

You can also garnish it with lemon slices and wedges, but it's a simple one-pot dish that requires nothing else for a full meal.

Variations

If you feel particularly adventurous, add some chunks of fresh pineapple to your vegetable mix. Yes, it tastes divine.

You can also add more vegetables. Broccoli or zucchini go great with the flavors in this dish.

You can make this dish with boneless skinless chicken breast, but add 3 tablespoons of butter or olive oil to the marinade because it would be otherwise too dry.

Nutritional information

Calories: 553kcal - Carbohydrates: 23g - Protein: 36g - Fat: 35g - Saturated Fat: 14g - Cholesterol: 116mg - Sodium: 1642mg - Potassium: 765mg - Fiber: 2g - Sugar: 13g - Vitamin A: 1030IU - Vitamin C: 9.1mg - Calcium: 587mg - Iron: 2.2mg

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FAQs

What to serve with lemon garlic chicken?

If you are looking for ideas to serve with lemon garlic chicken, try oven fried potatoes, or roasted vegetables.

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Ingredients

Garlic lemon sauce / marinade

  • ½ cup lemon juice Ā (or ¼ cup lime juice + ¼ cup of orange juice)
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons garlic powder
  • ¼ cup Ketchup
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon black pepper (freshly-cracked, or ground)

For the chicken and veggies

  • 1 white onion (large),Ā cut into cubes
  • 2 bell pepper ,Ā cut into cubes
  • 6 chicken thighs or 12 drumsticks
  • 2 cups sweet potato Ā cut into cubes
  • 2 cups carrots ,Ā cut into cubes
  • Some chopped parsley, rosemary, or fresh thyme to garnish.

Instructions

Step 1: Making the sauce / marinade

  • Mix all the sauce ingredients for the sauce (lemon juice,Ā brown sugar,Ā garlic powder,Ā ketchup,Ā salt, andĀ pepper).

Step 2: Season the chicken

  • PlaceĀ chickenĀ thighsĀ in a bowl and stir in the onion and bell pepper. Add the sauce mixture, moving around until the meat is coated with the sauce.
    Cover and marinate for at least two hours in the fridge.

Step 3: Cooking

  • Heat the oven to medium-high heat (350 ĀŗC [180 ĀŗC]).
    Place the sweet potatoes and carrot in a baking pan. Put the chicken legs (and onion and bell pepper) on top of the vegetables, and drizzle everything with the sauce in which the chicken marinated.
    Roast for 30 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through and light golden.

Step 4: Serving

  • Remove from the heat, sprinkle with fresh herbs, and serve

Notes

Line the bottom of the pan with aluminum foil for easy cleaning later on if you use a metal baking pan.

Nutrition

Calories: 541kcal

Publicado por Tia Clara - May 25, 2012

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  1. Gregorio Vasquez

    May 26, 2020 at 8:48 am

    For the homemade sauce you have 1/2 cup water and toward the end of the ingredients you have 1/2 water agua. I am confused. Why is there water without any measurement? Is this a mistake? Thank you.

    Reply
    • Tia Clara

      May 28, 2020 at 9:11 am

      You are right! Sorry about that, it was left over from the Spanish translation. I fixed it.

      Reply
  2. Daniel

    June 19, 2016 at 6:29 am

    Great recipe. Wondering if it would be okay to add any herbs to the homemade sauce. Thank you

    Reply
    • Tia Clara

      July 13, 2016 at 3:29 am

      You can try it, it will probably work.

      Reply
  3. laura

    June 07, 2012 at 3:29 am

    This is a very simple cuisine yet the taste was delightful that everyone at home loved! I made it together with my little sis. We are really happy to know that they loved it. We'll make it again. And that's for sure. šŸ™‚

    Reply

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