Super easy and fairly fast – a great recipe when you have chicken and you don’t really feel like cooking.

Ingredients:

• 2 Fresh Lemon (preferably Meyer Lemon)
• 1 head of Garlic
• 1 Roasting Chicken (or pieces of chicken)
• 1/3 cup extra virgin oil
• 3-4 Bay Leaves
• 2 Fresh Rosemary Springs
• Sea salt and fresh ground pepper

 

Step 1:

Preheat the oven at 350 F

Step 2:

Rinse the lemon and chop them, skin and all into about 8 pieces each. Smash the head of garlic to loosen the peel, Remove and discard peel.

Step 3:

Prepare chicken in small pieces

Step 4:

Smear a couple of table spoons of olive oil all over bottom of cast iron pan. Arrange the chicken pieces in the pan.

Add the lemon sections to the pan squeezing each one slightly to release the juice and pressing down among chicken pieces.

Scatter the garlic cloves, bay leaves and Rosemary among chicken pieces.

Dribble the rest of the olive oil over the chicken and sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper.

Step 5:

Transfer to oven and bake for 20 mn

Step 6:

Remove the chicken from the oven and raise the temperature to 425 F.

Turn the chicken pieces and return to oven. Roast for 30-40 mn until the chicken is crisp and brown.