Lemon Chili Chicken

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recipe by Octopus Publishing https://octopusbooks.co.uk/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    3hrs 10mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    4
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    216
based on 3 ratings

Sweet and citrusy, this chicken dish uses the entire lemon to inject buckets of flavor with just a few ingredients. This works with a whole chicken separated into pieces, or a mix of thighs and drumsticks. Make a meal of it with salad and baked potatoes.

recipe updated Feb 23, 2022

Ingredients

  • Lemon icon
    Lemon
    4
  • Fresh chili icon
    Fresh chili
    1
  • Garlic clove icon
    Garlic clove
    6
  • Fresh parsley icon
    Fresh parsley
    4 tablespoons
  • Whole chicken icon
    Whole chicken
    1 kg
  • Garlic clove icon
    Garlic clove
    2
  • Honey icon
    Honey
    2 tablespoons
  • Lemon peel icon
    Lemon peel
    4
  • Salt & pepper icon
    Salt & pepper
    as needed

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Baking dish - 2 quart
  • kCook icon Small bowl

Step preview

  1. Arrange whole chicken in a clean baking dish
  2. Crush garlic clove a clean small bowl
  3. Add honey, lemon and fresh chili to the mixture and mix well
  4. Pour mixture into chicken
  5. Add lemon peel to the chicken
  6. Marinate in fridge - 2 hr
  7. Pre-heat oven - 200°C
  8. Turn the chicken skin side up and scatter garlic clove over
  9. Bake until golden brown - 45 min, 200°C
  10. Stir in fresh parsley
  11. Season with salt & pepper
  12. Serve immediately
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