Chicken with Lemon and Herbs
By Riviera Rose
This is a lovely, light summer dish, inspired by a Jamie
Oliver recipe. The big difference is
that Jamie puts it in the oven, and uses rabbit. Now I like to cook on my hob, and have a bit of a moral issue
about eating old friends. He’s also
more pernickety about rolling the meat in the herbs and lemon first, while I
just shove ‘em all into the pot. The
results are still great: a delicious, light, lemony, herby summer supper,
worthy of a guest or two. And did I mention it's incredibly easy?!
To serve two, you will need:
Two chicken legs (I divide the thighs and drumsticks)
Some olive oil
One lemon
Salt and freshly-ground black pepper
1 heaped tablespoon chopped rosemary
1 heaped tablespoon chopped thyme
8 sage leaves
1 clove garlic, thinly sliced
1 large glass of white wine
Brown your chicken pieces in the olive oil. Peel and juice your lemon. Once the chicken pieces are brown all over, add the lemon zest and juice, herbs, garlic and seasoning, and stir. Then pour in your white wine, and as it sizzles, just give it all a good stir. Then turn the heat to low, cover your pan and leave for half an hour or so. I serve it with a yummy bulgur wheat and grilled vegetable mix – another Jamie Oliver recipe – which I’ll have to post here another time.
Enjoy!
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Comments
Nice, I will have to give it a try. I make something similar with bowtie pasta or rice. I will have to try bulgar sometime
Sounds great and we have sage growing which actually needs to be trimmed. Good excuse to give this recipe a try!
It looks tasty and easy to prepare. I'll definitely give it a try...
Thanks for all your comments - it really is a lovely, simple recipe and perfect for the summer. And it's a great way of using up sage, which grows like mad - and I really don't know many recipes that do use it. Hope you all enjoy it!
I Love to cook and I have tried a recipe similar to this for Chicken, using white wine and rosemary but, with SAGE "NOT" and "NOW" I will. I usually keep my Sage for my Stuffing s, that must change! Thank YOU Riviera R for sharing it! ?
Hi Spiritual Reach,
I have a big sage plant in my garden and can rarely find anything to do with it, which is one of the reasons I leapt at this recipe. The flavours really work well together - do give it a try!
E M Smith 21 months ago
Sounds nice and simple. I do not usually like chicken and lemon together but this sounds tasty