Chicken breast with lemon, olive oil and yogurt — chicken and chickpea plates, sheet pan chicken, Greek chicken wraps, zucchini bake — easy weeknight dinners.
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A flavorful Mediterranean dish featuring chicken, tzatziki, and fresh vegetables.
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Open in Pepper →Chicken breast can get boring fast, but a little lemon juice, olive oil and garlic changes that in about ten minutes of prep. Add yogurt or feta and you have a dinner that tastes like you tried harder than you did.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these on the nights they want something lighter than casserole but still filling enough that nobody asks what else there is. Most of it happens on one sheet pan or in one bowl.
Every recipe here leans on those same few ingredients: the Mediterranean Chicken & Chickpea Plate, the Mediterranean Chicken Bowl with zucchini and bell peppers, sheet pan Mediterranean chicken, Greek chicken and roasted lemon potatoes, Mediterranean Chicken Zucchini Bake, Greek Chicken Wraps, and a creamy tzatziki chicken salad for lunch the next day.
Pound the breasts even
Flatten thick chicken breasts to about 3/4 inch so they cook through at the same time. It saves you from dry edges and pink centers.
Marinate at least 30 minutes
Lemon juice, olive oil and garlic need 30 minutes to do anything, and 4 hours is better. Don't go past 8 hours or the lemon turns the meat mealy.
Roast hot on one pan
Sheet pan chicken with zucchini and peppers does best at 425°F for 20 to 25 minutes. Spread everything in one layer so it browns instead of steams.
Rest before you slice
Give the chicken 5 minutes off the heat before cutting into it. Pull it at 165°F and the juices stay in the meat instead of on the board.