Easy Roast Lemon Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 8 chicken thighs
• 300 g potatoes, cut into 3cm pieces
• 1 red onion, peeled and cut into 8 wedges
• 1 capsicum, red, cut into strips
• 4 garlic cloves, unpeeled
• 1/2 cup chicken stock
• 2 lemons
• 250 g cherry tomatoes
• 1/3 cup olive, kalamata, pitted
• 2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
• 1 tablespoon thyme, chopped

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 200°c.
• 2 zest 1 of the lemons and set the zest aside. now juice this lemon and remove any pips. cut the 2nd lemon into 8 wedges.
• 3 in a baking dish place the chicken, skin side up in the dish. place the wedges of lemon, potatoes, garlic, thyme and capsicum around the chicken pieces.
• 4 pour over the lemon juice and stock and sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.
• 5 place in oven and roast for 15 mins, then reduce heat to 180c and roast a further 25 minutes.
• 6 add the tomatoes and olives and roast a further 10-15 mins or until chicken is cooked and tomatoes start to collapse.
• 7 mix the parsley and lemon zest and sprinkle this over the chicken just before serving.