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  • Serves: 4

Rosemary chicken with roasted lemons

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Category: Chicken

 Ingredients List

  • Ingredients
  • 4 skin-on boneless chicken breasts, about 6 ounces each
  • 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt
  • 2 lemons, cut in half
  • A few sprigs rosemary

 Directions

Instructions

Put the chicken breasts on a rimmed baking sheet ”“ I use a 13 x 9 inch quarter sheet pan - and drizzle with some olive oil. Turn the chicken over to coat on both sides with the oil.
Season the chicken on both sides with the salt. Let the chicken sit at room temperature 25 minutes, skin-side up. Strip the rosemary leaves from their branches and chop finely; scatter over the top of the breasts and rub into the skin. Arrange the lemon halves flesh side down around the chicken.
Meanwhile, heat the oven to 400 degrees.
Roast chicken 12 minutes; baste with some of the pan juices. Crank up the oven temperature to 475 degrees and roast and additional 15 minutes, until the skin is golden brown and the pan juices are bubbling and dark brown. If your breasts are larger than 6 ounces they might need a few minutes more. Don”™t overcook! (please).
Let the chicken rest about 5 minutes. Transfer to a serving plate and squeeze the lemons over the chicken (one half per breast). Add a teaspoon of water to the baking sheet if necessary and scrape up the pan juices. Pour over the chicken and serve.

Notes

If you don't have kosher salt, reduce the amount by half, to 3/4 teaspoon fine salt.

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