Easy Lemon Pepper Chicken Recipe (Stove Top) (2024)

This lemon pepper chicken is here to transform chicken into a dish full of flavors, even if you are using chicken breasts! No more bland and boring chicken breasts!

Are you afan of one skillet recipes? Do you love easy and fast dinner recipe ideas? Yougot a treat for yourself with this easy skillet chicken recipe. Dinner would be ready in just 20 minutes. Isn’t that the perfect busy day dinner?

A simple andeasy to make homemade lemon pepper seasoning brings this chicken dinner to lifewith its flavors. The zest from lemonsand peppery taste of peppercorns makes this dish full of flavors.

Lemon Pepper Chicken Recipe

Seasoned with simple but amazing flavors of lemon zest and freshly ground pepper gives flavorful and juicy chicken breasts. With minimum ingredients and minutes of preparation work, you got an easy and delicious dinner that is fit for any day, perfect for busy mid-week dinner!

You don’thave to have readymade lemon-pepper-salt bottle. Make fresh homemade spice mixat home with minimum effort and it’s fuss free too. Nothing, I repeat, nothingbeats freshness of real lemons as compared to any ready-made seasoning.

We aretaking about fresh lemon zest flavors. Lemon zest is what we use to marinadechicken breasts instead of lemon juice along with freshly ground pepper. Youcan expect fresh lemon flavors with it are a perfect zing taste without beingover powdered with tangy taste.

This recipe promises BRIGHT and VIBRANT flavors! Lemon pepper chicken breasts is first marinated in lemon zest, pepper and salt along with garlic and onion powder (optional) for extra flavors. The longer chicken get marinated, more flavor it would absorb.

Chicken haslight breading on it to give it a golden crust when cooked in skillet. If youwant to add richness, cook breaded chicken in butter instead of olive oil.

You can serve chicken just that once cooked, or have a lemon pepper chicken sauce that goes on top of the golden crusted chicken which will give it that extra zing flavor.

Lemon Pepper Chicken Marinade

Let’s talkabout the marinade used in this chicken recipe. It’s fresh, it’s home and mostimportantly it’s super simple to make. You need very basic pantry ingredients.Lemons are available all round the year, that makes it easier for your guys totry this chicken for dinner any day of the year.

We highly recommend you to make your own chicken marinade instead of using store bought lemon pepper salt mix. Some of the brands are just salt mixed with citric acid for the tang.

It sure give the chicken the tang flavor, but does it give the real fresh amazing flavor of lemons?! That’s a big question! And according to me, it doesn’t! So brands even use yellow food coloring!

So nothing like the real fresh lemons!

To make the simplest lemon pepper chicken marinade, you need freshly peeled (or grated lemon zest) mixed with freshly ground pepper and salt. For extra flavors you can add garlic powder or freshly minced garlic and onion powder.

Ingredients for Lemon Pepper Chicken Recipe

Basic pantry ingredients is what you need for this recipe. Chicken first gets marinated in lemon zest-pepper-salt-garlic. Longer chicken fillets sits in the marinade, better flavors it absorbs.

Once chicken is marinaded for longer, it get it’s breading with flour. Then cook it olive oil or butter until it’s golden brown.

Finally make a sauce with fresh lemon juice, butter and seasoning salt and pepper.

Really simple, isn’t it!? This is what you need –

How To Make Lemon Pepper Chicken – Step-By-Step Instructions

Start with fresh organic chicken breasts. Cut chicken breasts horizontally to make 2 fillets.

Zest lemons.You need about 2 tablespoon lemon zest.

To chicken fillets add fresh lemon zest, fresh ground pepper, salt, minced garlic and onion powder (optional).

Rub chicken well to allow it to take in all the marinade and coat the marinade evenly.

Take plain flour in a wide bowl. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add onion powder is using now.

Dip chicken fillets in flour to get even coating on both sides. Shake off excess flour.

Heat olive oil (or butter) in a skillet.

Place breaded chicken in the skillet and cook on medium flame. Press the skillets with back of a flat spatula a couple of times to cook and brown evenly.

Cook for 2to 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown on both sides.

Transfer chicken from the skillet onto a plate. Wrap the entire plate in aluminum foil to keep chicken warm.

Into the same skillet add butter and stir until butter melts. Turn off heat. Add lemon juice a pinch of salt and pepper to taste.

Sprinkle choppedparsley over chicken breasts. Pour lemon pepper chicken sauce over crispybreaded chicken breasts just before serving.

Serve itover bed of rice or mix it up with pasta.

Tips To Make BEST Lemon Pepper ChickenRecipe

1. You can cut chicken breasts horizontally into two fillets or pound a chicken breasts to make it thin.
2. Use fresh grated lemon zest. Do not grate the white part below the yellow skin. It’s too bitter and will change the taste of chicken.
3. Use fresh ground pepper. Freshly ground pepper always has much more flavors and peppery taste to it.
4. If you like to pack in extra flavors, add minced garlic and onion powder. I like to add it to the chicken fillets. But you could add to flour for breading chicken.

MORE CHICKEN DINNER RECIPES THE YOU SHOULD TRY –

Bruschetta Chicken Pasta

Spicy Cajun Chicken And Rice

Instant pot Chicken Marsala

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