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Lemon Garlic Chicken

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Equipment

  • baking sheet

Ingredients
  

  • ⅓ cup – Avocado Oil
  • 1 tsp – salt
  • 1 tsp – garlic salt
  • 1 tsp – black pepper
  • ½ tsp – ginger paste or powder
  • 4 cloves – fresh garlic chopped or minced
  • 2 Tbsp – lemon juice
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 6 – skin-on bone-in chicken thighs
  • 1 lb – fresh asparagus or other veggie on hand
  • 1 – lemon wedges of lemon cut in 4ths
  • ¼ tsp – coarse/ground pink Himalayan salt

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 425 F.
  • Mix oil, salt , pepper, lemon, zest, garlic and ginger together.
  • Drizzle some extra oil on pan.
  • Add asparagus.
  • Pat chicken dry. Lay chicken skin up on asparagus.
  • Add lemon wedges (squeezing the extra juice on chicken).
  • Add the garlic oil mixture on top of the chicken thighs and asparagus.
  • Bake for 25 minutes.
  • Add a meat thermometer.
  • Bake until internal temp is 165 F.
  • Top with a pinch or course salt.