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Meyer Lemon Rosemary Chicken

Aromatic, lemony, and buttery pan-seared chicken recipe
Prep Time 0 minutes
Course dinner, Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 4

Equipment

  • 1 saute pan

Ingredients
  

  • 2-3 sprigs Rosemary
  • 2 tbsp Butter
  • 1 Meyer Lemon Any lemon will do, but meyer lemon is best/juiciest. Big ass juiciest lemons preferred. If no meyers, then use 2 eurekas/other lemons.
  • 1/2 Onion Rough chop (purple, onion, or white)
  • 1/3 cup Cooking Wine White or rice wine work great. Splash enough to scrape off the bottom flavors of the pan
  • 4 Chicken Thighs Bone-in, Skin-on
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • pepper just a dash
  • oil light drizzle to coat pan

Instructions
 

  • Drizzle in oil, enough to lightly spread across the bottom of pan, and add butter to large saute pan on medium heat
  • Add the rough chopped onions, and the rosemary to the pan
  • Stir together, allowing butter to melt, onions to cook, and rosemary to bathe in the sauce -- this is where we're creating the base flavor
  • When sauce starts sizzling, add the chicken thighs skin-side down, and let cook for 5-7 minutes -- resist the urge to flip them! This is when the skin gets its golden brown.
  • Once chicken looks seared with a golden-brown skin, gently flip each thigh over to cook the other side.
  • Cook the other side of chicken on medium heat for another 5-7 minutes.
  • Splash in the wine (approx. 1/3 cup), leaving chicken in. Use a wooden spoon to go around and under the chicken to scrape off the reduced, thickened sauce and grilled onions from the bottom of the pan (i.e., the good stuff). Let it simmer to allow alcohol to evaporate.
  • Squeeze in the meyer lemon
  • Add salt and pepper, and gently stir sauce around the chicken to bring together the flavors. Baste the chicken with a spoon, by scooping up the sauce and lacing over the chicken.
  • Place lid on, base a few times in between, and cook for another 10-15 minutes or until inside is no longer pink.
  • Plate the chicken, and pour and scrape the sauce out of the pan right over the chicken.
Keyword butter, chicken, lemon, pan-seared, rosemary