Lemon Basil Chicken

Simple and light chicken bake

Ingredients

• For one person
• – 2 drumsticks
• – basil – about 5 leaves or the fresh herb basil packet from woolworth?s or as much as you like.
• – about 2 garlic cloves roughly chopped or 1-2tbs of minced garlic
• – 1/4 lemon squeeze or 1/2 fresh lemon juice
• – 2-3 pinches of salt or ground rock salt
• – 3 tb of olive oil
• – 3 tb of water, cold
• sides to match
• – honey carrots
• – favourite steamed veggies
• – mash potato
• – garden salad

Instructions

STEP 1:

Make sure chicken is defrosted

STEP 2:

STEP 3:

1. Pre heat oven to 200ºc

STEP 4:

2. Roughly chop the garlic and basil

STEP 5:

3. Mix olive oil, water, basil, garlic, and lemon

STEP 6:

juice in a bowl. Stir.

STEP 7:

4. Put the drumsticks onto a baking dish and pour the basil, lemon etc mixture over it making sure that the basil and garlic is evenly spread over and around the chicken. I then like to also but some of the basil mix under the skin to infuse the chicken.

STEP 8:

5. Lightly sprinkle or grind salt over the drumsticks

STEP 9:

6. Cook for about 20 – 30 mins and then turn legs over. And do another light sprinkle of salt. Cook for a further 20 mins or until thoroughly cooked

STEP 10:

STEP 11:

in the last half of the cooking prepare your sides.