Skillet Lemon Chicken
This Skillet Lemon Chicken is a chicken and vegetables dish, with a very simple cream sauce drizzled over the roasted flavors, for a weeknight meal! Watch the video!
Today I’m sharing an easy weeknight meal, a Skillet Lemon Chicken recipe! It’s a delicious recipe to put on your weekly menu rotation.
Easy hosting Skillet Lemon Chicken Recipe
Friends, isn’t a meal together the most beautiful expression of our desire to be known, and loved? The table, the food, the drinks, the stories, the “remember whens” …
I love a simple meal that you can place on the table with a salad and some hot crunchy bread!
Last week in Bend, we met up with one of my best friends growing up, and her husband, for dinner. It was like old times. My husband got to know her husband better, and my friend and I laughed, until we cried. We shared so many memories from our growing up years.
Unity and peace
Henri Nouwen says it well, “When we eat together, we are vulnerable to one another. Around the table we can’t wear weapons of any sort. Eating from the same bread, and drinking from the same cup, call us to live in unity and peace.”
A really nice, peaceful meal brings people together to enjoy the greatest moments of life, to find harmony together.
Henri goes on to say, “Don’t you think that our desire to eat together is an expression of our even deeper desire to be food for one another?”
I just loved this part of the book I’m reading, Beloved. Because it’s true. We do say, “that was a very nourishing conversation.”
My husband and I say that all the time, when we feel like we’ve been fed spiritually around our table. It’s refreshing, and when we’re practicing true hospitality, our deepest desire is to give of ourselves to others.
The painful side of hospitality
The other side of this kind of hospitality is when a person at the table has contempt or disdain toward you, or they are rude or disrespectful, or they ruin the entire table experience for everyone – where we’ve been forced to put up some boundaries in the past.
This hasn’t happened a lot for us, but it is reality for most people – even the folks that we admire and look up to in highest regard. I started a post about this, but it’s very hard to write! Possibly for another day.
Skillet Lemon Chicken
Enjoy this comfort dish, from Cooking Light Magazine.
The skillet is used in a few clever ways: Start cooking the chicken and vegetables on the stove, finishing up in the oven. Then, a very simple cream sauce drizzled over the roasted flavors in the pan. Here are a few more favorite chicken recipes: Baked Lemon Chicken and Olives, Lemon Garlic Chicken Shawarma, and one of my favorite recipes, Roasted Chicken Grapes Rosemary Recipe.
This recipe is delightful with the lemon flavor!
And, by the way, I always associate lemons with the spring and summer. Maybe it has to do with cleaning, cooking healthy recipes, drinking lemon water, or the fact that my lemon tree is bursting with blossoms right now!
Get the Recipe:
Skillet Lemon Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 6-ounce skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
- 8 ounces baby carrots
- 8 ounces small red potatoes, halved
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
- 8 thin lemon slices, seeds removed
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk, divided
- 1 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
- 1/3 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add oil; swirl to coat. Sprinkle chicken with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Add chicken to pan; cook 5 minutes or until golden brown. Turn and cook 2 minutes. Remove chicken from pan. Place carrots and potatoes, cut side down, in pan; sprinkle with thyme. Place pan in oven; bake at 425° for 10 minutes. Return chicken to pan; top with lemon slices. Bake at 425° for 12 minutes. Remove pan from oven. Place chicken and vegetables on a plate.
- Combine 1/2 cup milk, flour, and rind in a bowl. Return pan to medium-high heat (do not wipe out pan). Add flour mixture and remaining 1 cup milk to the pan, scraping loosen browned bits; cook 3 minutes. Stir in remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Add chicken and vegetables to pan. Sprinkle with parsley.
Notes
More delicious chicken dishes:
Paprika Chicken Thighs {most popular recipe on RE}
Slow Cooker Chicken Breasts with Carrots & Potatoes
Chicken Broccoli Skillet Dinner (30 minutes meal)
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I’m Sandy—lover of food, family, cooking, THE BIG BOARD, travel, and bringing people together. Through great recipes and connection around the table, we become better, stronger, and more courageous people. Feasting on Life is real, and every time we do it, we grow a little more. Read more...
Can you use non-dairy milk (coconut, almond, oat, etc)?
We haven’t recipe tested that, so if you try it, let us know how it turned out:)
Looks delicious!
My family loves this dish. I make it few times every week now. This is so much better than store bought it. Thank you!
A very simple cream sauce drizzled over the roasted flavors
Easy and delicious. One of my favorite chicken recipes. Chicken is extremely moist.
The chicken looks like it is full of flavor and tender. I bet the Lemon and Asparagus goes perfectly together.
This MEAL WAS GREAT! REALLY TOOK NO TIME AT ALL TO PREPARE AND WAS ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS! cOULDN’T HAVE BEEN MORE PLEASED. A HEALTHY CHOICE AS WELL!
Looks delicious! We’re quarantined here in Spain. I have everything for this dish but only 2% milk in the house. We can go out to buy food and there’s no shortage, but I’d like to minimize exposure. Will it work with 2% milk? Thanks. Be safe everyone!
Yes, you can use any kind of milk! Love to you in Spain!
Omg!!! This was so tasty!! I found your site by googling “low carb meals” and I’m SO happy I found you. I can’t wait to try your other recipes!!! You got me!!!
Have always loved following your blog, but the numerous political ads are so distracting and disappointing
This has to be the best chicken! I am adding it to my must make list!!! YUM
I just tweak the recipe a little bit by adding garlic and a bit of Parmesan to the sauce with some salt.It was delicious. I always put garlic in just about everything it’s a staple around here.
Can I use green beans instead of potatoes?
Sure! Yum!
sounds delicious, although I feel like one ingredient is missing. Garlc? I love garlic and wonder how i would be able to incorporate that into this dish?
Sure, you can totally add garlic!
Delicious, but took much longer – about 30 minutes – in the oven to cook the potatoes and carrots. The original Cooking Light recipe said to boil the potatoes first – maybe that would have sped things up?
You can! It depends on the size they are cut up. :)
The picture is making my mouth water! I am gonna attempt this tonight, but thinking about adding some garlic to the recipe as I’m a garlic fanatic!
Yes, you can totally add garlic!
Just made it and it is so tasty and savory. I used 2% milk because that’s all I had but it still tastes really creamy and rich!
Looks wonderful… except grated lemon “rind”. Do you mean lemon “zest”?
Yes! You can use a zester or use the slivers of rind.
Looks so delicious. Going to try it this weekend.
If i replace the breast with thighs do you think i will get the same results?
Yes, you can use thighs. I’d use boneless!
Thanks so much!!!
This looks delicious – I love how it starts on the stove and ends in the oven. Easy Peasy.
ps. I can feel your frustration when people show disrespect. I experienced that a lot as a high school teacher, but in my own home, our son is the main challenge with manners. Such is the life of parenting a 13 year old. I hope that you find a way to feel comfortable and appreciated when you serve your wonderful food to others. xo M.
This is totally my kind of dinner! So gorgeous Sandy!
This is definitely our kind of meal for just Ben and I or for friends who come over. We love having friends over, and thankfully they are always gracious and we always come away closer.
I feel like I can smell it! Chicken dishes are total comfort foods… one of the few things I miss from my meat-eating days.