Lemon Pepper Chicken Recipe

Overlook retailer purchased Lemon Pepper seasoning. One of the simplest ways to make home made Lemon Pepper Chicken is with lemon zest (no juice!), black pepper, garlic and olive oil. Easy, aromatic and scrumptious. Make this with any minimize of chicken you need, grill it, bake it or sear it.

So easy and simple to make, you can also make this tonight!

Generally, the only of concepts transform annoyingly troublesome to attain. All I wished was to make a home made Lemon Pepper Chicken i.e. with out utilizing a packet of Lemon Pepper seasoning.

Making a home made Lemon Pepper seasoning to sprinkle onto chicken requires sluggish baking lemon zest to dry it out earlier than mixing with salt and pepper. So primarily making a flavoured salt.

However I wished one thing I may make tonight, any evening, on a whim. As a result of Lemon Pepper Chicken is certainly a midweek-meal-type-food, don’t you assume? One thing you need to be capable to make proper now.

Because it seems, discovering a brief minimize method of constructing a chicken with an actual lemon flavour (i.e. not simply lemon bitter flavour) wasn’t as straightforward as I believed it will be as a result of the precise lemon flavour in lemons just isn’t within the juice, it’s within the zest. The juice is a bit lemony, however largely it’s bitter. However Lemon Pepper Chicken just isn’t bitter and even tangy.

So anyway, I gained’t take you thru the assorted strategies I tried earlier than touchdown on “the recipe”. Suffice to say the problem was determining a simple method to get the zest and pepper to truly keep on with the chicken, together with garlic (or onion) powder for further flavour.

So that is how I do it: combine zest and olive oil to make a rub, slather it onto the chicken, then dip into flour seasoned with pepper, garlic (or onion) powder and salt.

Not a drop of lemon juice in sight. Solely as a result of I wished to duplicate retailer purchased lemon pepper seasoning which isn’t tangy. You’ll be able to positively add a squeeze of lemon juice into the lemon zest slather (is that what it’s referred to as??). However only a bit. As a result of I discover that the important thing to getting the lemon zest to stay to the chicken is to solely use a little bit of oil. An excessive amount of oil and the zest simply runs off.

I don’t use the lemon juice for the seasoning however what I love to do is slice it up and pan fry it, partly for garnish and in addition to offer folks the choice to squeeze some over the chicken.

Bought lemons? Bought chicken? Then attempt this for dinner tonight! – Johnsat x