Sarah’s Famous Lemon Chicken Thighs

Updated at: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 18:31:52 GMT

Step 1

Set oven to BROIL at 500 to warm up (approximately 10 minutes).

Step 2

Line a baking pan with foil and drizzle unflavored coconut oil for each thigh you’ll place on it. Put four chicken thighs on the foiled baking pan.

Step 3

Wash and dry the lemons and zest it on the small holed side of a cheese grater on top of a cutting board. Only zest the yellow part of the skin, not the white. Pull out all the zest from inside the middle of the cheese grater.

Step 4

Slice each of the zested lemons into four wedges.

Step 5

Use a strainer to filter out any seeds and squeeze the lemon wedges over the chicken (one total lemon per each chicken thigh). Throw away the squeezed lemon wedges.

Step 6

Divide the lemon zest into four equal portions and sprinkle it onto each chicken thigh.

Step 7

Season the chicken thighs with cumin, lemon pepper, seasonall, garlic salt, black pepper and paprika. I apply the cumin, lemon pepper and seasonall the heaviest.

Step 8

Loosely cover with foil, shiny side down. Make sure you do this in a way that will allow you to remove this lid, mid-cooking without too much difficulty.

Step 9

Broil in the oven at 500 degrees. Total cook time is 45 minutes, but I set a timer for 30 minutes, remove the top foil, close the oven and continue to broil for the final 15 minutes to let the skin crisp. Voila! Amazing juicy lemon chicken the entire family will beg you for!

Step 10

Excellent sides are steamed veggies and sushi rice.

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