Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Garlic Chicken with Lemon-Herb Sauce

Ingredients:

--Chicken
Thawed Chicken Thighs, skin-on and deboned
Minced garlic
Poultry Seasoning/Seasoning salt
Olive oil

--Sauce
1 tsp. Minced Garlic
1/2 tsp each Paprika, Oregano, dried Rosemary, dried Basil, dried Parsley
Salt
Pepper
3/4 stick butter
juice of one lemon

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
-Rub both sides of Chicken in Poultry Seasoning or Seasoning Salt. Rub a little bit of minced garlic inside the chicken and tie closed with cooking string. Brown the chicken in garlic and olive oil (about 5 minutes on each side) and set aside in a baking dish.
-In the same pan add the butter, lemon juice, and the rest of the herbs and to make the basting sauce.
-Bake the chicken 3/4 of the way with most of the basting sauce (poke holes in chicken to let it seep) skin side down. This should take about 25 to 30 minutes.
-Flip the chickens skin side up, baste with the rest of the sauce and bake till done.

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