Italian Healthy Baked Chicken Recipe

This Italian Style Baked Chicken is just as good as it looks.

I use my roasting trick of salting for a day or more in the refrigerator and then baking at a high heat. The green pepper, onions and potato will go in after ten minutes. You can salt the chicken pieces up to three days, but the prep time is no more than ten minutes, making this an elegant fast food, appropriate for any season or occasion.

You can also make Italian Baked Chicken in a Sheet pan

I’ve made this in a sheet pan at times also. Just add either potatoes or turnips and green peppers after about ten minutes.

Even eaten at room temperature it’s a winner, so feel free to take this to the next potluck. (Just cut the breasts in half or make it with thighs only).

To save money, I usually buy a Publix Greenwise whole chicken or a Whole Foods Belle Evans Air Chilled chicken, and have the butcher cut it into 10 pieces. I don’t serve the backs; they are the chef’s private snack.

You can also choose to freeze those and save for chicken stock.  he butcher will ask you how you want your chicken cut. I always get the 10 pieces. When you get home and find the breasts too large, you can cut those in half.

Use a green bell pepper when baking chicken or braising chicken. The green bell pepper sometimes gets a bad rap, because it’s often served too raw, but it is the best pepper for flavoring chicken when roasting, braising or baking.

There is a slightly different flavor than a red bell pepper and when married with onion, and a little garlic, it creates a perfect medley, yet it doesn’t take over the dish and is so good with roasted potatoes.

Baked chicken pieces make for great leftovers.

I will purposely make a lot of chicken in pieces, so I can have a good protein lunch for the next few days, and each piece can be frozen separately.

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Italian Healthy Baked Chicken Recipe

Italian style roast chicken with potatoes, peppers, onions, and fresh herbs makes for a very healthy dinner.

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time50 mins

Total Time1 hr

Course: Entree

Cuisine: Italian

Servings: 4

Author: Angela Roberts

Ingredients

• 1 chicken cut into 10 pieces or any combination of pieces you prefer.
• 1 onion cut into slices
• 4 garlic cloves whole
• 1 bell pepper cut into strips
• Two tablespoons fresh herbs rosemary or thyme work well
• 2 medium sized potatoes peeled, cut into large cubes or wedges
• salt
• pepper
• olive oil

Instructions

• Salt chicken pieces, wrap in plastic for 1 to 3 days
• Remove chicken, rinse off in cold water, pat dry with paper towels.
• Season with salt and pepper and allow to sit out for 30 minutes before baking.
• Preheat oven to 425
• Warm pan in oven for 5 minutes before placing chicken in.
• Place chicken in pan, skin side down and bake for 10 minutes
• Toss garlic, onion, potato and pepper strips with a tablespoon or so of olive oil, herbs, salt and pepper.
• Add in peppers, onions, potatoes.
• After another 10 to 15 minutes, turn chicken pieces over. Continue to bake for another ten minutes until chicken is golden brown and juices run clear.

Notes

Use any combination of fresh herbs such as sage, rosemary, parsley, thyme. Two tablespoons if fresh, 2 teaspoons if dried.

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