How To Make Roasted Chicken with Lemon and Feta Cheese
Enjoy a medley of Mediterranean flavors in every bite with this juicy roasted chicken, served with savory feta, tangy lemon, and earthy herbs!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1chicken,(3 to ½ lbs)
- 1tbspolive oil
- 1½tspdried oregano
- 1tbsplemon juice
- ¼tspsalt
- ⅛tspfresh ground black pepper
- 1tbspbutter
- 1½ozfeta cheese
Instructions
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Heat the oven to 375 degrees F.
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Coat the chicken with the oil; arrange the pieces, skin-side up, in a large roasting pan. Sprinkle the chicken with the oregano, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Top each piece of chicken with a piece of the butter.
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Cook the chicken for about 30 minutes until the breasts are just done. Remove the breasts and continue to cook the legs for about 5 minutes longer until done.
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Remove the roasting pan from the oven, then return the breasts to the pan.
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Top the chicken pieces with the feta cheese. Press any cheese that rolls off into the pan back onto the chicken. Baste the chicken with the pan juices.
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Heat the broiler. Broil the chicken for about 2 minutes until golden brown.
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Serve with the pan juices, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 730.41kcal
- Fat: 53.72g
- Saturated Fat: 16.82g
- Trans Fat: 0.41g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 22.42g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 10.22g
- Carbohydrates: 1.02g
- Fiber: 0.19g
- Sugar: 0.55g
- Protein: 57.40g
- Cholesterol: 242.09mg
- Sodium: 453.44mg
- Calcium: 93.01mg
- Potassium: 584.36mg
- Iron: 2.94mg
- Vitamin A: 160.91µg
- Vitamin C: 6.28mg
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