Oregano chicken
Oregano chicken
Equipment
- 1 Oven
- 1 Baking tray
- 1 Chef Knife
Ingredients
- 2 Chicken Breasts
- 2 tsp Olive oil
- 4 sprigs Fresh Oregano
- 1 Lemon
- 3 Garlic cloves
- 1 tsp Paprika
- 0.5 tsp Salt and Pepper
Instructions
- Get ready to cook:– Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C– Pick the oregano, remove the leaves from the stem and chop into small pieces– Peel the garlic and chop into small pieces (or use a garlic crusher)– Squeeze the lemon to extract the juice
- Prepare the ingredients– Mix all the ingredients, including paprika, salt & pepper in a bowl.
- Prepare the chicken– Flatten the chicken breasts (using a rolling pin or your hands) until 15 to 20 cm at the thickest part.– Line the baking tray with foil and put the chicken breasts on top.– Cover the chicken with olive oil and rub in the seasoning mixture. (First one side and then flip over and do the other side)– Put in the oven and bake for 20 minutes until completely cooked
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When made with fresh oregano the fresh oregano chicken will taste so much better compared to using dried oregano.
It’s easy to make and ideal when:
- You need a quick & easy meal
- Using the oven and few tools
- Ideal with roast potatoes & veg.
Fresh oregano is very easy to grow at home. If you’ve never tried the fresh herb before you will be pleasantly surprised by the extra flavour.
How to use oregano chicken
Great served with roasted potatoes. vegetables and/or appelmoes (Dutch applesauce), as in the picture.
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Easy way to grow oregano at home
If you’ve only used the dried oregano powder then you will be pleasantly surprised by the extra flavour of fresh oregano.
When you are cooking fresh herbs tend to make a real difference to the results. Herbs are really easy to grow at home and many of them grow really fast.
And in addition you can grow types not available in most supermarkets – like the hot and spice oregano pictured
To grow your own oregano
Hopefully the guide to how to make fresh oregano chicken might inspire you to grow your own fresh oregano at home.
It’s not very difficult to grow your own at home – even indoors (in your kitchen, spare bedroom, garage, etc. All you will need are seeds, growing system and some growing lights. There is detailed description of the – indoor herb growing system
Have you made the recipe?
Would love to hear what you thought of it
Delicious! I’m a new vegetable gardener snd I was looking for a way to use some fresh Italian oregano. I also harvested some fresh lemon balm and used it in place of fresh lemon which I didn’t have. I topped off the chicken with a sprinkle of kosher salt and some fresh cilantro. I’ll be making this again.
Thank you, your recipe sounds lovely