This is a flavorful spin on the classic lemon chicken that’s so easy to prep! Between lemon pepper chicken or a buttery lemon sauce, lemon chicken is one of my favorite go-to recipes when cooking chicken. Add in a whole lot of garam masala to the chicken and lemon butter sauce and it completely elevates the dish. Garam masala is a “warming” grounded blend of toasted spices that instantly makes any dish super flavorful. If you don’t already have it as part of your spice collection, you’ll definitely want to add it ASAP! This weeknight chicken dinner recipe comes together in under 30 minutes and it’s ready and prepped for a few days! It’s absolutely delicious when served with something carb-y, especially toast to sop up all the leftover sauce. Orzo, rice, or even spaghetti would be so good, too.
How to Prep and Cook the Crispy Chicken
We’re using 2 large chicken breasts for this recipe - coming to about 1.25lbs or so for both of them so that there is enough sauce to go with it. You can use chicken thighs as well, but it may be better to give the thighs a good sear, make the sauce, replace the chicken in the pan, and pop it into the oven to finish cooking the thighs.
How to make the Lemon Butter Sauce
Making the lemon butter sauce is so easy!! It is ridiculously creamy, rich, and citrusy which makes for a comforting warm meal. You’ll need to prep by juicing a lemon and zesting about half of the lemon as well.
Browned Lemon Butter Sauce
If your lemon butter sauce has browned instead of a bright yellow, that’s totally fine! It will still taste the same. This may be for a few reasons -
The butter browned from being on heat for too longThe remaining bits from searing the chicken The sauce was simmered for too long
You’ll want to work quickly while making the sauce because it gets the beautiful bright color from the butter and lemon, and the heavy cream lightens it.
How to Store the Chicken
I love meal prepping this dish!! I use airtight meal prepping containers and fill each container with a piece of chicken and then the rest with rice and whichever veggies I have on hand. To reheat - Warm it up in the microwave for a minute or on the stovetop on medium heat for 5 minutes.
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