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- Everybody loves a good big chicken recipe,
and I have a quick Mediterranean twist on it
with garlic and lots of lemon
and a few great spices.
I'm Suzy with TheMediterreanDish.com.
I'm all about easy wholesome recipes
with big Mediterranean flavors.
We're talking chicken legs today, you guys.
You can never have enough good chicken recipes,
and one of my go-tos is Mediterranean baked chicken
with garlic and lemon.
We're gonna give it a good quick Mediterranean twist
and nice lemony marinade with tons of garlic,
and then we're just gonna pop it right in the oven.
That's how simple it is, so let's get to it.
The deal is my kiddos love chicken drumsticks,
so that's what I'm using here.
I've already salted them.
I chilled them overnight.
This is a trick I use often when I want my skins
to crisp real well, the salting overnight
and kinda chilling without covering helps that quite a bit.
Let's put together our seasonings or our spices
that will go with this chicken.
So first of all,
we're gonna do oregano,
black pepper,
coriander.
Coriander is just so warm and fuzzy.
I feel like it hugs the chicken real well.
(laughing) Who says that?
Sweet paprika,
and just a hint of cumin.
Oregano, coriander, cumin, paprika, black pepper party
going on in this bowl.
I like to do this in a separate bowl
so I can mix 'em all up and then it kinda gives me
an even seasoning, so to speak.
Yep, there's a lot going on here and it's so good.
Grab yourself a baggie, open it up nice.
Put the chickens in here.
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We're gonna grab our seasoning mixture here
that we just did with the oregano and all that good stuff,
and I'm gonna sprinkle it on top.
Pour it all in here.
Give it a bit of a shake.
I have a whole head of garlic in here, you guys,
that's been nicely minced.
So don't be shy.
We need all the garlic because this is
garlic lemon chicken.
So obviously, lots of garlic.
So that goes in here.
Okay, I have like one medium onion.
Any kinda onion will do.
I've cut this up into like wedges, so to speak.
So one onion goes in here.
Lemon zest, so I'm using two lemons today.
So I'm gonna zest them because there's so much flavor
in the zest.
So zest your lemons until they're fully bald.
But if you could smell the flavor party
that's already going on here, you guys, oh my gosh.
Make sure you ask your questions in the comments.
Let me know your favorite chicken recipes.
I'm always in the market for chicken recipes.
This just happens to be one that I absolutely love.
And then we're gonna add, of course, the lemon juice.
So zest and juice of two lemons goes
in my lemon garlic chicken.
Cup your hands so you can catch all the seeds.
Oh yeah, this is a super lemony situation.
The final bit is we need to add some extra virgin olive oil.
I'm using my Private Reserve Greek extra virgin olive oil.
It's available on TheMediterraneanDish.com.
Just hit the Shop tab.
A good amount of this, I think at least 1/4 cup
to help massage everything together.
Now all the hard work is done and by the way,
you can do this like an evening in advance
or a couple hours before, whatever amount of time
that you're able to give this marinade.
Ready for it?
Massage the chicken. (laughing)
Like don't be shy with it.
Just make sure that it's fully coated
with all the good spices and the lemon
and the garlic and the olive oil.
Move about everything just to make sure everything
is evenly distributed and coated.
I have a little bit of time,
so I'm just gonna stick this chicken in my fridge
for a couple hours.
Partway through, you guys, if you end up doing this,
make sure you flip the chicken over
so the marinade will kinda distribute better.
And all you're trying to do here is give this chicken
as much flavor as possible,
all that garlic, all that lemon, all these spices.
They just kinda need to marry.
Fridge.
All right, things are looking good.
Take my bag out.
This is my baking dish in which this chicken will bake.
I'm going to give it a quick brush of olive oil.
And my oven is heated up to a high 450 degrees.
Time to arrange the chicken.
With the onions and everything else,
all of it goes in here, so.
Kinda tuck the onions in between.
I'm gonna go the opposite direction
so I can fit everything nicely.
All right, and then one final thing,
I'm going to tuck in some lemon slices,
'cause you can never have enough lemon in a lemon chicken.
And that's really it.
We're gonna stick this baby in the oven
for about 30 to 35 minutes.
Ooh.
It smells all sorts of delicious.
I cannot wait to dig into this garlicky lemony chicken.
You guys, my kiddos love it with a little bit
of Greek tzatziki sauce and some Mediterranean salad,
and that's all for dinner.
Grab the recipe on TheMediterraneanDish.com.
Leave me all your comments and questions.
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And I'll see you later, ciao.