Recipes

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

  1. 01

    Season thighs generously. Sear skin-side down in olive oil until deeply golden. Flip and brown briefly. Remove.

  2. 02

    Soften onion and garlic in the rendered fat. Add oregano and red pepper flakes.

  3. 03

    Add olives, lemon slices, stock, white wine, and thyme.

  4. 04

    Return thighs to the pan, skin up. Braise covered until tender.

  5. 05

    Finish with parsley.

By JORDAN HESS