Lemon, Garlic & Thyme Roasted Chicken On A Sunday Night

 

This by calendar week together with weekend has been sunny together with hot inwards New England.  Then today, out of no where, it was fifty degrees together with rainy.  All day.  And it volition proceed to endure mutual depression temperature together with rainy all week.  After a calendar week of grilling out together with eating fresh, a existent repast sounded proficient - I jumped at the conduct a opportunity to brand us a comforting dinner on a Dominicus night. 

Roasted Chicken

with lemon, garlic & thyme

iv chicken breasts, split
1/2 loving cup of olive oil
2 lemons, juiced
1/2 loving cup of white vino (optional)
6 cloves of garlic
10 sprigs of thyme
1 tablespoon of bounding main salt
1/2 tablespoon of cracked pepper

Place chicken breasts inwards a baking dish.  In a bowl, combine olive oil, lemon juice, white vino together with garlic.  Place thyme sprigs on operate past times of the chicken breasts.  Pour mixture over the chicken.  Sprinkle common salt together with pepper over the breasts.  Cover together with marinate for 1 hr or more, if you lot bring the time.

Bake chicken covered inwards foil at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes, depending on the size of the chicken breasts.  Remove from the oven, allow sit down for 10 minutes earlier serving.

 

Chicken breasts inwards my baking dish.  Notice the mini bottle of white vino - I've been buying them to purpose inwards my cooking because nosotros never bring a bottle of white roughly the house.

Juicing the lemons, seeds?  What seeds?

I similar to pour the marinate over, together with hence season.  If I flavor them first, together with hence the marinade merely washes it away.

Ready to larn into the refrigerator for an hr - if you lot bring the time.  If not, merely larn ahead together with lay them inwards the oven.

Put the chicken nether the broiler for 2-3 minutes if they pare has non browned enough.  

This is perfect - I honey how the lemons larn roasted, too. 

I served them amongst mashed potatoes together with drizzled the sauce over.  Be certain to squeeze a lilliputian chip of the roasted lemon over, besides - it has an amazing flavor afterwards cooking inwards those garlicy juices.

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