Healthy Lime Chicken Breast Recipes
Rub generous amounts under the skin.
Healthy lime chicken breast recipes. These recipes are on the table in 30 minutes or fewer. Oven baked lime chicken is a super easy 5 ingredient foil baked chicken recipe. These thin pieces of chicken cook quickly and evenly. Ingredients 3 tablespoons olive oil divided 1 4 cup fresh squeezed lime juice juice of 2 limes 1 4 cup fresh chopped cilantro 1 teaspoon red chili or pepper flakes 4 cloves garlic minced 2 teaspoons brown sugar 3 4 teaspoon ground cumin 6 bone in skin on or off chicken thighs salt and pepper to taste fresh cilantro leaves to serve lime slices or wedges to serve instructions preheat oven.
Outer skin is salted rubbed with some mixture. We love chicken breasts as much as you do. Braised balsamic chicken my whole family including the kids loved this chicken. Healthy chicken breast recipes chicken breasts make a great go to option for quick and satisfying meals.
How to make chicken cutlets. Marinate chicken covered and refrigerated turning once or twice for at least 2 hours and up to 8 hours. These honey lime baked chicken breasts are so easy super juicy and even so good my picky son loved them. Bake for an additional 20 30 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through and the juices run clear.
A 6 ounce breast has 182 calories and 4 grams of fat. This 30 minute delicious baked moist chicken recipe is a perfect weeknight quick healthy meal. Plus they take on any flavor you throw at them and that is tough to beat. Remove chicken from marinade discard marinade and arrange skin side up without crowding in a shallow baking dish.
Not only is this a delicious lime baked chicken recipe but one you can choose your own accompaniments too. With school back in session i m happy to get back into a routine of cooking family meals with so many of my kid s activities at night i needed another quick and easy baked. Mince onion garlic and jalepeno add the dry ingredients called for in this dish to form a wet paste. Chicken breasts are fast to cook and a great source of lean protein.
Put a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees. I have finally made one of the best baked chicken recipes. Easy honey lime baked chicken breasts. Serve hot with lime wedges or slices and chopped fresh parsley to garnish optional.
Bake for about 20 minutes the remove and brush chicken with the reserved marinade. Oven baked lime chicken recipe. 7 quick and healthy chicken dinners. Baking times may shift for different types of chicken remove and sprinkle chicken with lime zest and fresh cilantro.
An 8 ounce breast has 243 calories and 5 grams of fat. Broil in oven until skin gets nice and crispy 5 7 min switch oven to bake 350 until done approx 40 min. It was easy to prepare and great served over rice ladymw. Continue cooking chicken until chicken is cooked through to an internal temperature of 165 degrees f coating chicken with juices.
Add chicken turning to coat. While the meat is lean that extra weight adds up.