Make a lemon and garlic chicken one-pot meal with chicken, sweet potatoes, carrots, and a creamy lemon garlic sauce. This easy chicken casserole recipe is cooked in 30 minutes.
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Why we ❤️ it
If you're looking for a new, great one-step chicken dish to serve, this simple lemon and garlic chicken recipe will make you fall in love with your new favorite dinner recipe.
What's in it?
Chicken, sweet potato, carrot, and my magical garlic and lemon sauce. This is a very flexible dish, so you can use chicken breast in lieu of thighs, and add more vegetables (like broccoli, for example, if you so wish.
Why it's so good
The lemon and garlic sauce is a surprising combination of sweet, sour, and tangy that's also easy and quick to make. The chicken is marinated in it, and the vegetables bathe in the released chicken broth and sauce absorbing all the flavors.
If you feel particularly adventurous, add some chunks of fresh pineapple to your vegetable mix. Yes, it tastes divine.
About this recipe
For this recipe, you can go the easy way and use our sponsor World Harbors' Lemon Pepper and Garlic Marinade, or go with our homemade version.
This lemon garlic chicken recipe yields 4 servings, of 3 chicken pieces each, and about 1 cup of diced vegetables. You can double the quantity of vegetables, or all of the ingredients if you want more or larger servings.
Buen provecho!
Recipe
[Recipe + Video] Lemon and Garlic Sauce Chicken One-Pan Meal
Ingredients
Pre-prepared sauce
- 1 cup World Harbors Lemon Pepper and Garlic Sauce
- 1½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper (freshly-cracked, or ground)
Homemade sauce
- ½ cup lemon juice, (or ¼ cup lime juice + ¼ cup of orange juice)
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons garlic powder
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon pepper (freshly-cracked, or ground)
For the chicken casserole
- 1 large white onion, cut into cubes
- 2 bell pepper, cut into cubes
- 6 chicken thighs, divided into halves, or 12 drumsticks
- 2 cups batata (sweet potato), cut into cubes
- 2 cups carrot, cut into cubes
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Instructions
Making the sauce: Mix all the sauce ingredients (use either prepared sauce, or homemade, NOT both).- Season the chicken: Place the chicken legs in a bowl and stir in the onion and bell pepper.Add the sauce mixture, moving around until the meat is coated with the sauce. Cover and marinate for at least two hours in the fridge.
- Cooking: Heat the oven to medium-high heat (350 ºC [180 ºC]).Place the sweet potatoes and carrot in a baking pan. Put the chicken legs (and onion and bell pepper) on top of the vegetables, and drizzle everything with the sauce in which the chicken marinated.Roast for 30 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through and light golden.
- Serving: Remove from the heat and serve.
Tips and Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is calculated automatically based on ingredients listed. Please consult your doctor if you need precise nutritional information.
This post was sponsored by World Harbors Sauces and Marinades, I received compensation and products in exchange for this post but these opinions are 100% mine and have not been vetted or altered by the sponsor.
For the homemade sauce you have 1/2 cup water and toward the end of the ingredients you have 1/2 water agua. I am confused. Why is there water without any measurement? Is this a mistake? Thank you.
Great recipe. Wondering if it would be okay to add any herbs to the homemade sauce. Thank you
This is a very simple cuisine yet the taste was delightful that everyone at home loved! I made it together with my little sis. We are really happy to know that they loved it. We'll make it again. And that's for sure. 🙂