Weekdays are for easy chicken dinners! Easy Lemon Rosemary Chicken. It starts with the humble chicken breast, just a few shakes of lemon pepper seasoning and a quick sear in a hot skillet. While that’s happening, we’re going to just combine a few ingredients in a measuring cup and make the sauce in the microwave. And once it’s all hot and bubbly, we’ll pour the sauce into the skillet and throw it all in the oven and sit back while the chicken practically cooks itself. What you’re left with is a tender chicken breast that’s perfect to serve over fluffy mashed potatoes and leftovers are great to use over salads, with steamed vegetables and some rice. Meal prep? Done. And dinner is too! Secretly, I’ve started a new Monday tradition in our house – EDM. No, we’re not listening to electronic dance music! My type of EDM is all about Easy Dinner Mondays. But in all seriousness, what I love most about my lemon rosemary chicken recipe is that you can make it as simple or fancy as you’d like. Serve it with steamed veggies and fluffed rice or quinoa to keep it weeknight friendly. Make it with homemade focaccia and roasted brussels sprouts if you want to impress your guests. What all of these recipes have in common is that they’re all big on flavor, easy on clean up, and quick to make.
Ingredients lemon rosemary chicken:
Chicken: I like to use skinless chicken breasts for this recipe, but chicken tenders or boneless skinless chicken thighs will undoubtedly work as well. Please also remember that the cooking time may vary if you change the type of chicken. Be sure to use a instant-read thermometer to be check and make sure the internal temperature of the chicken reaches a 165ºF.Lemon Pepper Seasoning: You’ll want a lemon pepper seasoning that you enjoy the taste of. Most seasonings contain lemon zest, cracked pepper, and some source of sodium, amongst other ingredients. If your lemon pepper seasoning contains kosher salt, you can skip the amount listed. Mine didn’t, so I added a big pinch (¼ teaspoon salt) to the dry rub for the chicken.Butter: we’ll use most of the butter for the lemon rosemary sauce and a bit of it will be used to sear the chicken breasts. If you’re lactose-free, follow a paleo/keto diet you can also swap the butter for ghee. If you’re dairy-free, you can use margarine or olive oil/avocado oil in place of the butter.Lemon juice: goes into the lemon butter rosemary sauce we’ll make.Minced garlic: I like to use about 5 cloves of minced garlic or about 1 large heaping tablespoon of pressed garlic.Chicken broth: the chicken broth is used to make the pansauce for this recipe.Chopped herbs: you’ll need both fresh rosemary and some fresh parsley. The parsley is mostly for colorRed pepper flakes: adds just a hint of spice to the recipe. You can omit this, or use more or less to your preference. We don’t find that the red pepper flakes add to much heat!Honey: I like to use honey for the lemon rosemary sauce but you can also use maple syrup or agave here if you’ d like.
Instructions for Lemon Rosemary Chicken:
Other easy chicken dinner recipes:
One Skillet Lemon Garlic ChickenMozzarella ChickenBruschetta ChickenBalsamic Tomato Baked ChickenCheesy BBQ Chicken
Lemon slices: aren’t really a part of the recipe. I just sliced fresh lemon and heated it in a warm pan and used it for persentation. If you’d like to do the same, feel free to do this in the skillet before searing the chicken breasts to make it easier for cleanup!
