Main dish

Easy Lemon Chicken Tenders

Super easy lemon chicken with rosemary and garlic. This will completely wow your family and can be cooked up in about 30 minutes!

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Quick and easy lemon chicken served with a side of roasted potatoes

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Quick and easy lemon chicken served with a side of roasted potatoes

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Quick and easy lemon chicken served with a side of roasted potatoes

Lemon chicken has been around foreveerrrrr but I always remember it as a gloopy translucent lemon sauce. Almost like a savory lemon curd.

That's so not what lemons are for everyone. This version of lemon chicken is cooked in a pan of lemon juice and simmered until the juice reduces down and the chicken sucks up all of that lemony flavor.

Add rosemary, my favorite go-to herb, into this dish and you end up with an easy meal that cooks fast and has my kids licking their little fingers. In my world this is called a weeknight dinner jackpot.

Serve the lemon chicken with some easy roasted potatoes, brown rice or quinoa and your kinda done. Don't overthink this one. On a scale of one to ten on my chicken-ometer, this gets a solid eight! Looking for more easy dinner ideas? Check out dinner idea for shredded orange.

Quick and easy lemon chicken served with a side of roasted potatoes

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Recipe

An easy and tasty lemon chicken recipe with garlic and rosemary. Not like the usual sauce drenched versions but way better!

Course:
Main dish
COOKing TIME:
10 minutes
Total TIME:
30 minutes
CUISINE:
American
PREP TIME:
20 minutes
SERVINGS:
2

Ingredients

  • 2 large skinless boneless chicken breasts
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil divided
  • 1 shallot roughly chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon brown sugar
  • Juice of two lemons
  • 2 tablespoons fresh chopped rosemary
  • Salt and black pepper

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Instructions

  1. Slice the chicken breasts into strips and toss with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and salt and pepper in a bowl.
  2. In a large pan heat the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil.
  3. Add the shallot and cook for about 3 minutes over a medium heat.
  4. Add the garlic, paprika and brown sugar. Stir well.
  5. Place the chicken strips into the pan and cook until the chicken is brown about one minute.
  6. Add the lemon juice and rosemary and cook for a further 4-5 minutes until the chicken is fully cooked and the lemon juice has begun to cook down.
  7. Serve at once with roasted potatoes or simple brown rice.

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