Change Your Life Chicken

 This chicken dinner actually will change your life. It's so easy and so delicious with very little clean-up. It's a complete one-dish meal. And you can use a variety of vegetables, so whatever you have on hand. 

Change Your Life Chicken

Recipe from www.thelazygeniuscollection.com

Ingredients:

Chicken Thighs with the bone and the skin (1-2 per person)

Two handfuls of vegetables per person. You can use whatever you have. Options: onion, carrot, potato, green bean, asparagus, leek, sweet potato, and cauliflower. (Avoid mushrooms, zucchini, squash, and broccoli with this method.) 

Olive oil

salt

pepper

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 500 degrees

2. Line a baking sheet with heavy duty aluminum foil

3. Cut your vegetables and toss with olive oil, more salt than you think you need, and black pepper. Consider cooking speeds with the vegetables you choose.

4. Peel back the skin from the chicken and season underneath generously

5. Pat the chicken dry with paper towels. This is how you get the crunchy crusty layer or skin.

6. Place the chicken skin side up directly on top of the vegetables. 

7. Bake at 500 degrees for 50 minutes.

Variations:

Start with what's above, but once you feel comfortable with how it works, feel free to change it up. Add fresh rosemary or thyme to the vegetables. Rub the chicken (not the skin) with lemon or orange zest. (Rosemary and orange are a heavenly match.) Reinvent the meal with different vegetable combinations: onion, potato, carrot; leek and asparagus; onion and sweet potato, green bean and cauliflower. If you love it, try it. The worst that can happen is it's not great and you won't make it again. Same goes for exotic spices. Go nuts with curry powder, a taco seasoning blend, or whatever you want to try. You won't know if it works until you try. Use chicken breasts with the bone and skin if you must; be sure to bump the time to an hour. I can't vouch that it'll be as good, but I'm not your chicken boss.