Everyone needs a go-to recipe. It also needs to be easy. If you have a decent spice rack and chicken on hand, this is going to be something you can do once and have memorized.
Also, I don't want to try and fool anyone. I try to eat well. I really do. But as I'm typing this post, I'm indulging in a nice bowl of ice cream with hot fudge. And a crushed up chocolate bar on it.
ON TO THE HEALTHY RECIPE...
Lemon Pepper Chicken
What you need:
- About 3-4 large chicken breasts cut in half
- EVOO
- Lemon Pepper
- Onion Salt
- Garlic Powder
- Sea salt grinder
- Pepper grinder
What to do:
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees
- Coat your chicken pieces with a liberal amount of Lemon Pepper
- Dust all of the pieces with onion salt and garlic powder
- Grind (about 1 turn per piece) sea salt over pieces
- Grind (about 2 turns per piece) pepper over pieces
- Put EVOO in a frying pan and turn your stove top on high
- When its almost hot (before it sizzles- or you will burn the crap out of your hand like I did) add your chicken pieces (as much as you can fit in).
- Cook each side for about a minute. This is called pan searing and locks in your flavor.
- Coat a glass dish in EVOO and dust it with a layer of all seasonings you used.
- Place your chicken pieces in the glass dish and dust the top of them with more seasoning IF NEEDED ( use your eyes, you can see how much is on the pieces).
- Cook on 400 for about 30 min, check (cut a piece in half) to see if they're done. If not, add another 5 minutes.
- Enjoy!
The picture shows this paired with rice (which is white but I honestly prefer wild rice) and green beans. The recipe for my green beans is here. Confession: the rice and green beans in this photo are not natural (*cough* from a box/frozen). In that, they were nasty and next time I'll just go to the store and get fresh things :)
