Brad's lemon pepper chicken. This Lemon Pepper Chicken from Delish.com will make you excited for chicken again. If you throw chicken into a pan with salt and pepper and bake it for forever, of course it's going to be terrible. I know this sounds obvious, but it's what so many people trying to "eat healthy" do.
It's super easy to make and only requires a handful of ingredients, one being a seasoning called lemon pepper. It's a zesty, peppery seasoning that goes great on a wide variety of dishes. Try it with my Quick and Easy Skillet Lemon Chicken or my Easy. You can cook Brad's lemon pepper chicken using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Brad's lemon pepper chicken
- Prepare 1 of chicken breast.
- It's of salt, lemon pepper, garlic powder.
- It's 4 strips of bacon.
- You need of mozzarella cheese, 3 pieces that are about 3/4 of a inch around.
- You need of and 3 inches long.
- Prepare of lemon pepper marinade.
- Prepare of fresh basil for garnish.
This homemade lemon pepper chicken is made with lemon, pepper, olive oil, garlic, flour and salt. The juice is a bit lemony, but mostly it is sour. But Lemon Pepper Chicken is not sour or even tangy. So anyway, I won't take you through the various methods I attempted before.
Brad's lemon pepper chicken step by step
- Fillet chicken breast in half. Place halves under saran wrap and pound meat until thin..
- Marinade in lemon pepper marinade for 1 hour.
- Remove to a cutting board. Sprinkle seasoning over both halves of the chicken.
- Place pieces of cheese on one half of the chicken breast. Lay the other half on top. Wrap with bacon..
- Place in an oven preheated to 400 degrees. Bake 10 minutes..
- Brush with more marinade. Bake 10 more minutes. Repeat process with 30 minutes total bake time..
- Remove to a plate. Drizzle a little more marinade on top if desired. Garnish with fresh basil and serve.
Lemon pepper seasoning, a zesty combo of dried lemon peel, onion, garlic, and plenty of ground black peppercorns, passes that test with flying colors. Lemon pepper chicken was one of the first few Keto recipes I cooked up on the show. It was the dish that I made for my wife Deepti and it was one that impressed her the most. As I was going through all the recipes I had made I saw the lemon pepper chicken recipe. And that is how I found inspiration.