Chicken Breast Lemon Lime Recipe
I m all about lemon chicken so when you add a butter pan sauce to the mix you know it s going to be unbelievably tasty.
Chicken breast lemon lime recipe. Bake for 30 40 minutes depending on the size of the chicken until the chicken is done and the skin is lightly browned. Cover and refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight. Place chicken in a shallow glass dish. Place them in a bowl with one tablespoon of the sesame oil the vegetable oil soy sauce garlic and lemon zest and juice.
Open each chicken breast out so you have two large thinner chicken breasts. Squeeze two limes and keep the pulp but not the pips. Pounding meat until thin and flat is a great technique for barbecued chicken breast as it ensures it won t dry out. Lemon butter chicken is a must try recipe.
Try this version with lemon and herbs. The original recipe just calls for lemon juice but the first time i made this i didn t quite have enough lemon juice so substituted half of the lemon juice with lime juice. The homemade marinade just has olive oil garlic onion pepper salt and lemon juice and lime juice. This recipe just replaced my old lime chicken recipe.
And not only that this chicken is so easy to make and it will come together in no time making it the perfect dish to serve any day of the week. Cut the lemon in 8 wedges and tuck it among the pieces of chicken. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes depending on the size of the chicken breasts until the chicken is done and the skin is lightly browned. Yes it is that good.
Place chicken pieces in the mixture and marinate at least 1 hour in the refrigerator preferably 2 hours. That was a week ago and we ve eaten this chicken four times since then. I fixed the marinade in the morning bumped up the heat factor a little used fresh cilantro from my garden made all the difference and threw it in a bag along with the juice of a couple limes. Grill chicken over medium hot heat turning once until juices run clear about 15 18 minutes.
So simple and easy too. Place springs of thyme on top of the chicken. In a large bowl whisk together the lemon juice lime juice and oil. I marinated it all afternoon and then threw it on the.