This Chicken and Potato Bake with Meyer Lemons is easy to make and a cinch to clean up! This chicken recipe is sure to impress your family!
Honestly, I love chicken potato bakes! It's a great one dish meal which makes prep and clean-up so much easier.
This is seriously easy to make. I mean, it's just chicken, potatoes, salad dressing.
Then you toss some spices on if you want to amp it up. A little coarse salt is all this needs in my opinion. In addition, you can add some fresh rosemary too. However, that's completely optional.
Not only is this an easy recipe because it lets the flavour of the food stand out but it's also tender and moist.
Seriously though, some recipes don't need a lot of jazzing up. This is certainly one of them.
While I used split chicken breast for this recipe, you could use boneless, skinless chicken breast if you like. Also, chicken legs or thighs would work really well too.
In all honesty, you could even use a whole chicken if that works better for you.
Love this chicken potato bake, try these recipes:
- Chicken Enchilada Casserole
- Easy Cheesy Pasta Bake with Sausage and Peppers
- Greek Chicken Orzo Power Bowls
- American Chop Suey
- Saucy Mozzarella Chicken Bake
- 30 Minutes Chicken Vegetable Skillet Pasta
- One Pot Pasta with Sausage, Peppers and Apples
- Easy Chili Cornbread Casserole
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Chicken and Potato Bake with Meyer Lemons
Ingredients
- 3 lbs split chicken breasts
- 2 lbs baby potatoes cut in half
- 2 cups Italian Salad Dressing
- 2 meyer lemons sliced thinly
- fresh rosemary optional
- 1 pinch coarse salt
Optional
- ½ cup water add if needed (I added about ½ cup around the thirty minute mark)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Spray a 9 x 13 casserole dish with non-stick cooking spray.
- Lay the chicken breast down in the dish, I put them towards the corners.
- Add the potatoes and spread evenly in the dish.
- Pour the dressing over top of the chicken and potatoes.
- Lay lemon slices over the chicken and potatoes randomly.
- If you want rosemary you can add it now, or just use it for garnish later. Some folks like rosemary, some don't. So it's a completely optional ingredient.
- Place the casserole dish in the preheated oven. Cook for 55 minutes total. (Check the chicken at 30 minutes to make sure there's enough liquid, and stir the potatoes around. If you need more liquid you can add some water at this point. I baste everything at this point to keep the chicken moist. Slide the casserole dish back in the oven and cook for another 15 minutes. Check again by pulling the dish out of the oven and baste again, and move the potatoes around a bit. If you need some water add some. Slide back in and cook for another 10 minutes.) The basting will really help. Don't be shy to add a little water if the dressing cooks off too quickly.
- Remove from the oven. Discard rosemary.
- Transfer everything to a big platter and serve family style, or just place the casserole dish on a heat resistant trivet on the table.
- Serve with a big old lemon chicken loving smile!
Notes
Nutrition
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Manu
There's nothing better than baked chicken and roasted potatoes... that's one of my favourite meals!
Kim Beaulieu
Me too Manu. It's such a classic weekend meal.
Becca from It's Yummi!
Chicken & potatoes was my dad's favorite Sunday supper! I never knew until this moment that my mom's recipe most likely had Italian dressing in it. I never bothered to find out... it was too good good, and there were 8 of us hoarding it off of the platter, so I was a bit busy throwing chicken into my piehole to ask her 🙂
Kim Beaulieu
Ha, I love using dressing in recipes. Works really amazing for the grill too. Great marinade for meat. I think every family has a chicken and potato recipe they love.
Marjory @ Dinner-Mom
Yummy! Complete dinner in 5 Ingredients or less! But...I'm super impressed with how many recipes you got done during your "break" - Congrats! Can't wait to check them out!
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks Marjory. I love this recipe.
I got so much cooking done. I had one of those creative bursts and just went nuts. My freezer is jam packed now. I wanted to do it so I didn't always feel pressured to meet deadlines. Takes the edge off.
Courtney @ Neighborfood
One pot meals are my life right now. This is going on the menu this week!
Kim Beaulieu
Me too. Frees up so much time. Hope you're having an awesome week Courtney.
Laura
It is funny because I don't like Italian dressing as a dressing but I just love it as a marinate for chicken. I use to work at Cracker Barrel and that is what they use for their grilled chicken. Such great flavour and with the meyer lemons I imagine this is even better.
Kim Beaulieu
Same here, I hate salad dressing on salads. Yet they make super amazing marinades. Super flavourful for stir fries too.
I am addicted to meyer lemons. Something about them just makes me so happy.
Liz
Haha. I'm sure it's all Malia's fault! So glad to see you back with the SS crew this week with your amazing one pan meal. It will be a BLAST to see you next month AND in July! xx
Kim Beaulieu
It totally is. She's evil. I can prove it and bring her to blogher food and she can room with you. Bah ha ha.
Thanks. I can only do the odd one but it's fun to join in on occasion.
I am so excited we're doing both conferences. Going to be so much fun.
John@Kitchen Riffs
Yeah, I'm a sucker for good one-dish meals too. And this one looks terrific! Love that top photo. It's weird, but my free time never works out either. So I just play hooky when I'm supposed to be doing other stuff to make up for it!
Kim Beaulieu
One dish meals are so amazing. I love them.
Ha, I need to play more hooky.
Tara
Great looking dinner and so easy too, love it!!
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks Tara. I love a good one dish meal.
Marlene @Nosh My Way
Wow. I am speechless. This is something I would love to make and plan on trying it soon. Pinned.
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks Marlene, I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for pinning.
Alice // Hip Foodie Mom
Kim,
I'm so bummed I am missing the Food & Wine conference this year . . you guys are going to have a blast! love your lemon chicken and potato bake. . delicious!
Kim Beaulieu
I am so bummed you aren't coming Alice. I would love to hang out with you. Are you doing any others this year?
Thanks. I love the simplicity of one dish meals.
Deanna Samaan
WOW! This does not look like it 5 ingredients, It looks like something you get in a French Bistro, Amazing Great job!
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks so much Deanna. I swear sometimes the simpler recipes are the best. We love this one.
Emily @ Life on Food
So I would be tempted to try anything that claims 5 ingredients and one dish. But this one looks really good all on its own. The other things are just a bonus!
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks so much Emily.
Mireya @myhealthyeatinghabits
What!? 15 posts ahead of yourself and another 30 for the other one? I'm lucky if I can get one post ahead. What tea are you drinking? The Chciken sounds fantastic! I've bookmarked it and will be making it soon.
Kim Beaulieu
Ha, I know right. I got carried away. It's called pepsi, and lots of it.
Thanks. Hope you love it.
Kim (Feed Me, Seymour)
Of course, I love anything with meyer lemon. It's so bright and fresh. But this one pot meal here? Oh man. It looks beyond delicious!
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks so much Kim. I love easy recipes, and meyer lemons are my heart. I adore them.
Maggie Unzueta @ Mama Maggie's Kitchen
Love big family chicken dinners. Can't wait to try this. 🙂
Kim Beaulieu
Me too. Hope you love it.
cheri
This looks like a great meal, one that my whole family would love. You seem pretty organized to me 15 posts ahead, that sounds well, organized.
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks so much. I went on a baking binge while I was on staycation. It was lovely.
Simone
You're so organized in my mind at least. 30 recipes done! Wow.... I'm way behind but short on time... Hope to get that fixed by the end of this week but new design and all too which will go live this week (fingers crossed) so I have no posts scheduled. Which is kind of a strange thing...
Anyway, that chicken looks amazing,
Kim Beaulieu
I am so excited for your redesign. I've been wanting to do one myself.
Susan
Oh you can't blame things on that sweet face! I hope she's at least helping keep the floor clean! So yeah, chicken and potatoes in pot. It's the perfect meal.
Kim Beaulieu
Ha, she is obsessively cleaning the floors, so much so I'm starting to feel inadequate.
Thanks lady. xx
Katie
Oh my gosh - those potatoes look absolutely drool-worthy!
And I feel your pain. I look forward to getting time off for spring break, or Thanksgiving, or Christmas break (I'm a teacher)...and I have all these ideas about relaxing. It never seems to happen. I'm up before 6am...running errands, tending to things. Um, relaxation? What is that??? 😉
Kim Beaulieu
Thanks Katie.
I know right. It's so weird. I had the opportunity to sleep in this morning and my best friend called. I was like NOOOO! ha
Sarah
HUGE sucker for meyer lemons, I'm in!
Kim Beaulieu
Me too. xx