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Oven Baked Rosemary Chicken is an easy and healthy dinner recipe that your entire family will enjoy.

Bone-in skin-on chicken pieces are marinated in a homemade lemon rosemary combination that gives great flavor to this moist and delicious oven roasted chicken recipe! Because of the olive oil and skin, the chicken pieces bake to golden perfection and the meat is both moist and packed with that lemon rosemary flavor.

Oven Baked Rosemary Chicken
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Why this recipe works:

Chicken is everyone’s favorite go-to dinner recipe. There are thousands a delicious chicken recipes out there. Recipes like Chicken PiccataChicken Cordon BleuLemon Pepper Chicken, and Perfect Chicken Parmesan are at the top of my list when I’m wanting to serve my family chicken.

But it doesn’t really get much more simple and easy than Oven Baked Rosemary Chicken. And easy is the name of the game when we’re all looking for something to make on a busy weeknight

Lemon Rosemary roasted chicken

How to make it:

All you need to do is make a quick marinade out of lemon, rosemary, olive oil, salt and pepper. Then, combine the marinade with the chicken in an air tight container or bag, refrigerate, and then it’s ready to bake!

The lemon and rosemary are such a great combination, especially when making oven baked chicken. We make rosemary chicken like this all year long, but during the summer months you can just as easily cook the chicken on the grill instead of the oven so that you don’t heat up your kitchen unnecessarily.

What to serve with this chicken:

Make up a batch of buttermilk mashed potatoes, some corn on the cob, and a nice green salad and you’ll have the most delicious dinner.

Pro tips:

I usually like to double this recipe so that I can use the leftover meat to make an easy chicken salad for the kids’ lunches and then I’ll use the leftover skin and bones to make a nice bone broth. It’s the dinner that keeps on giving!

How to make lemon rosemary chicken in the oven

Kitchen tools needed:

  • Every home cook needs a good quality lemon zester. The zest has so much citrus flavor and really compliments the citrus aspect of this recipe.
  • A lemon press or citrus squeezer is a great tool to have to get all of the juice out of the lemon. They work equally as well on oranges and limes too.
  • Plastic storage bags or glass storage containers to hold the chicken and marinade. The longer you allow it to marinade, the stronger the lemon rosemary flavor will be!
  • I like to bake the chicken on a traditional baking sheet. I will usually line with parchment paper so that the chicken doesn’t stick and it makes for easy clean up!

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Oven Baked Rosemary Chicken

Prep15 minutes
Cook35 minutes
marinate1 hour
Total50 minutes
Servings 6 servings
Oven Baked Rosemary Chicken is an easy and healthy dinner recipe that your entire family will enjoy. Bone-in skin-on chicken pieces are marinated in a homemade lemon rosemary combination that gives great flavor to this moist and delicious oven roasted chicken recipe! 

Ingredients 

  • 3 pounds chicken pieces bone in, skin on
  • 1 lemon juice and zest
  • 1/4 cup olive oil extra virgin
  • 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 4 cloves garlic minced
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Instructions 

  • Combine all ingredients in a gallon sized resealable plastic bag. Refrigerate for at least an our up to over night.
  • When ready to cook, preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Arrange chicken pieces in a single layer on a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 30-35 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees F. 

Notes

White meat might take less time to cook than dark meat.

Nutrition

Calories: 420kcal, Carbohydrates: 3g, Protein: 29g, Fat: 32g, Saturated Fat: 8g, Cholesterol: 116mg, Sodium: 496mg, Potassium: 324mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 1g, Vitamin A: 216IU, Vitamin C: 13mg, Calcium: 25mg, Iron: 2mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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This recipe was originally written for Centsless Meals where I was a contributor.

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7 Comments

  1. hi can you tell me the ratio you used for measurements in your baked rosemary chicken for 20 persons? thanks

    1. There’s a slider on the recipe where you can change the number of servings and it will change the amount of ingredients needed.

  2. 5 stars
    The whole family loved this! I should’ve followed your tip about doubling it because everyone cleaned their plates and didn’t leave anything behind.

  3. 5 stars
    YUM!! This chicken looks so tasty & would be great with so many dishes! Love new chicken recipes to try!