Lemon Chicken

Name: Lemon Chicken
Ingredients: 3 eggs; 1 tablespoon rigani or dried oregano; 300 ml white wine (or more if pan very large); 6 tablespoons olive oil (or more); 1 large chicken in 8 or 10 portions or 2 small chickens cut into 6 portions each; zest and juice of 1 large lemon or 2 small (preferably unwaxed)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How To Eat

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

I prefer to go to my butcher for a proper, free-range bird, which he will then cut up into portions. I like the bird to be cut up small.

Ingredients

6 tablespoons olive oil (or more)
1 large chicken in 8 or 10 portions or 2 small chickens cut into 6 portions each
zest and juice of <

Main course
Lunch
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to gas mark 7/210°C.

Put a large baking dish on the hob (one big enough to hold the chicken, which should fit more or less over 2 burners) and pour in the olive oil. If you can’t fit the chicken pieces in 1 pan and are therefore cooking them in 2 you may need m