One Pan Lemon Roast Chicken and Asparagus with roasted lemon pepper potatoes. This is the one pan wonder dinner, of your busy Friday night dreams. Dinner goals, guys!
Okay, what if I told you that you could make a super elegant dinner in about 40 minutes. It’s healthy, it’s quick, it’s easy, requires one pan and pretty much no attention what so ever. It’s even elegant enough to be served as a dinner for when you have company.
But, hang on a sec. I just want to be clear on something about this. Although, it may seem to be, the star of this one pan wonder hit isn’t the roasted garlic and lemon spiked roast chicken. No.
It’s not even the super crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside thyme roasted new potatoes. They are awesome, however, still not the star.
You see, around this time of year, people refer to eating between the seasons. Nothing’s quite kicking off yet, and we all have parsnip and cabbage fatigue. So, what’s a self respecting seasonal food loving eater to do?
Well, we get our hands on the VERY first harvest of local asparagus. Yassss! When you wait all year for these stalks of greatness you will make sure you get the very first ones. Even if that means I they are expensive. Like, whoa! Pricey. But, you see, where I live, and indeed all over this gorgeous green island that is Great Britain, we are fanatical about these tender little green spears. They are literally the herald of spring. I honestly felt the sun on my back and the temperature shoot up as I took these spears off the shelf and delicately placed them in my basket.
So, as an ode to asparagus I thought I would create a super simple one pan wonder so that we can all revel in the first of the season asparagus AND have a super awesome Friday dinner. Sometimes dinner goals and asparagus goals just come together in one pan to ease Friday night dinner dilemmas.
Spring is officially here! So, why don’t we all sit out and catch some rays while our low maintenance Friday asparagus dinner works it’s magic.
One Pan Lemon Roast Chicken and Asparagus
One Pan Lemon Roast Chicken and Asparagus with roasted lemon pepper potatoes. This is the one pan wonder dinner, of your busy Friday night dreams. Dinner goals, guys!
Ingredients
- 2 boneless chicken breasts
- 3 lemons 2x zest- 1x sliced
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 2 cloves garlic grated
- 50 ml olive oil
- 2 Tbsps Herbes de Provence
- 2 Tbsps Basil dried
- 1 Tbsp honey
- Salt/Pepper
- 500 g new potatoes
- 1 x bunch asparagus trimmed
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180c.
- In a small bowl combine the olive oil, grated garlic, lemon zest, honey and dried herbs.
- Spread the marinade over the chicken and leave to sit while you prep the potatoes.
- To prep the potatoes, slice the new potatoes in half lengthwise. This makes them thinner than if you cut them width wise and they will cook faster.
- Drizzle with olive oil and salt and pepper. Scatter with some thyme sprigs and place in the oven for about 10 minutes.
- When your ten minutes is up, add the chicken to the pan and place back in the oven for another 20 minutes.
- For the final 10 minutes of cooking add your asparagus to the roasting pan. Drizzle with some more olive oil and salt and pepper.
- Place back in the oven for the last 10 minutes.
- Serve dinner right from the pan.
This looks amazing Debs – loving the feel of the new website too! This is all fantastic.
my family is not big on asparagus, is it possible to sub green beans and/or carrots? would I cook them the same way?
You can totally use green beans or carrots. If you want to use carrots then put them in the same as the asparagus. If you want to use green beans, then add them in the last 10 minutes of cooking time so that they don’t get overdone. 🙂
If we wer to use carrots you suggested we should put them in the “same as the asparagus” so in the last 10 mins of cooking as per the recipe instructions???
Hey Serina. If the carrots are thin carrots like the skinny ones with the tops still on then, yes, they should only take about 10 -12 minutes to cook. If they are thicker carrots then they’ll take longer. Probably about 20 minutes. If you’re in a rush then you could cut larger carrots into smaller batons to roast more quickly.
Hello! The ingredients list mentions the juice of 1/2 a lemon, and sliced lemon, but I’m not sure where/when to use them? They are not mentioned in the instructions. Thank you!
You can add them before they go in to the oven so that the lemon slices roast with the chicken.
Absolutely loved this recipe! It’s going to be a new family favourite for sure. Have already made it twice this week. So simple and delicious. Thank you!
Made this last night and it was a big hit with the family. Since I didn’t know what to do with the juice of 1/2 the lemon, I added it to the marinade and it was great.
Ah Erin that’s awesome! This is one of my favourite recipes of all time. So happy that your family loved it too!
I feel like the measurements on this are all out of whack, 4 tablespoons of dried herbs to 1/2 a squeezed lemon? That’s one hell of a dry rub.
Are they meant to be teaspoon quantities?
Also, lemon size varies drastically! I’d suggest using a measurement that isn’t so subjective. I zested two lemons and that was a hell of a lot!
Hey Joseph. Thanks for the comment. I think you missed the second line of the instructions that say to add the herbs, lemon juice and honey together WITH the olive oil and mix. If you missed the oil out, then yep, that would be dry. As for the zest of 2 lemons being too much for you, that is subjective. Most of my readers like their food with a lot of attitude and have a pretty heavy hand when it comes to the lemon and garlic. But recipes really are a great starting point for you to put your own spin on a dish. Not a fan of all that lemon? Try using orange zest, or a mix of lemon and lime. Anyway, hope you give this dish another chance and add the oil to the herbs. It will get you the result that you’re after.
Thanks for this! Such a great meal! I featured it on my latest meal plan, check it out: https://www.mictomacro.com/blog/2018/2/26/weekly-meal-plan-spring-stalks