Lemon Chicken with Olives & Herbs
- Serves 4
- 50 min
Bone-in thighs braised slow in lemon, olive oil, and castelvetranos. Built for the table, not the timer.
Ingredients
- 6bone-in skin-on chicken thighs
- 2 tbspolive oil
- 1 mediumyellow onion, thinly sliced
- 6 clovesgarlic, smashed
- 1 cupcastelvetrano olives, pitted
- 1lemon, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cupchicken stock
- 1/4 cupdry white wine
- 1 tspdried oregano
- 1/4 tspred pepper flakes
- 2 sprigsfresh thyme
- 2 tbspflat-leaf parsley, chopped
- to tastesea salt and black pepper
Steps
- 01
Season thighs generously. Sear skin-side down in olive oil until deeply golden. Flip and brown briefly. Remove.
- 02
Soften onion and garlic in the rendered fat. Add oregano and red pepper flakes.
- 03
Add olives, lemon slices, stock, white wine, and thyme.
- 04
Return thighs to the pan, skin up. Braise covered until tender.
- 05
Finish with parsley.
By JORDAN HESS
