Recipe: Yummy Lemon Honey Baked Chicken

Lemon Honey Baked Chicken. Pour over baked Honey-Lemon chicken for a delicious honey glaze! yumm!! From start to finish, this is a simple and straightforward recipe. I guess, THE simplest recipe I have ever shared!

This applies to this Simple Honey-Lemon Roasted Chicken recipe, and any time you roast a chicken. Once the chicken has been basted (according to whatever recipe you're using), truss it, place it breast side up in a greased roasting pan with at least a couple inches of space around it. My Honey Lemon Chicken is perfect for weeknights! You can cook Lemon Honey Baked Chicken using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Lemon Honey Baked Chicken

1. Prepare of Chicken breasts or thighs (boneless).
2. You need of Garlic cloves (use more).
3. Prepare of Lemon.
4. Prepare of Honey ( I used Neem honey).
5. You need of Extra virgin olive oil (can use less).
6. Prepare of as needed Salt and pepper. ( I used the foraged red pepper corns).
7. It's of as needed Parchment paper to fully cover chicken.
8. Prepare of as needed Dried rosemary..

Chicken breast lightly coated in seasoned flour, pan fried until golden and served with a gorgeous honey lemon sauce. Glazed Lemon Honey Garlic Chicken is tender and juicy chicken cooked in the skillet topped the most amazing lemon honey garlic glaze! Quick and easy meals that are the best family meals are perfect for a busy weeknight. Mix canola oil, lemon zest, lemon juice, Dijon mustard, honey, garlic, Worcestershire sauce, Italian herb seasoning, salt, and black pepper in a bowl; pour into a resealable plastic bag.

Lemon Honey Baked Chicken instructions

1. Slice lemon in half. Cut one side into thin slices and squeeze the juice from the other side in a bowl..
2. Preheat oven to 400°F and place chicken breasts evenly spaced..
3. Mix the honey and lemon juice until well combined. Set aside..
4. Place a lemon slice on each chicken breast and add the garlic..
5. Add salt and pepper and dried rosemary to chicken then pour over the sauce over the chicken breasts. Add 1/2 cup water or chicken stock if desired..
6. Pour the oil on the parchment paper and spread evenly across..
7. Cover the chicken breasts with the parchment paper (oil side down) and cook until chicken temp reaches 165°F..
8. Remove parchment paper and service on a bead of rice..

Place chicken breasts into the bag, seal, and squeeze bag with your fingers several times to coat chicken with marinade. DOES LEMON JUICE DRY OUT CHICKEN? If you only use lemon juice on your chicken, then yes, it can dry it out. See my tips below for other variations. Bake your chicken just until done — a meat thermometer is the best way to get it just right!