Easiest Way to Cook Delicious Easy Baked Lemon Chicken

Easy Baked Lemon Chicken. Fresh lemon juice makes this quick and easy chicken dinner exceptionally mouth-watering. For a crunchier crust, skip covering the baking dish with foil. This baked lemon chicken recipe is perfectly juicy and tender, easy to make, and full of the BEST fresh lemony flavor. (Amazing!!) But ever since then, we've had more and more people ask how to make a lemony version of the recipe.

Season the chicken with salt and pepper, to taste, and place it in the lemon juice mixture in the casserole dish; turn to coat the chicken on all sides with the lemon mixture. Lemon is acidic and helps balance the stronger flavor of the dark meat in thighs and legs, and the fat from the chicken skin. Of course, you can use chicken breasts if you prefer. You can have Easy Baked Lemon Chicken using 5 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Easy Baked Lemon Chicken

1. It's 2 each of chicken quarter.
2. Prepare 1 tbsp of kosher salt.
3. Prepare 1 tbsp of paprika.
4. You need 1 tbsp of granulated garlic.
5. You need 1 cup of fresh lemon juice.

Depending on the size of your pieces, you probably won't need. Baked lemon chicken is a delicious, easy dinner recipe that happens to be gluten- and dairy free and low carb. Perfect served with a side salad for dinner. This here baked lemon chicken ticks all of those boxes and then some.

Easy Baked Lemon Chicken instructions

1. Mix all ingredients together in a zip lock bag, marinate 45 minutes..
2. Cook in oven on middle shelf at 400 about 45 minutes or until done. Serve with my easy potatoes and veggies. Enjoy.

Jump to the Lemon Garlic Baked Chicken Breasts Recipe or watch our quick recipe video to see how we make it. We've shared this marinade recipe before — see our Easy, No-Fail Lemon Chicken Marinade Recipe. This tops our list as our favorite marinade. This baked lemon chicken is coated in a butter and herb sauce, then roasted to perfection. A super easy dinner option that even the pickiest eaters will enjoy!

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