Best 10 Spicy Lemon Chicken Recipes

SPICY LEMON CHICKEN KABOBS

Steps:

• In a large shallow dish, combine lemon juice, 3 tablespoons oil, wine, pepper flakes and rosemary. Add chicken and turn to coat. Refrigerate up to 3 hours., Drain chicken, discarding marinade. Thread chicken onto 6 metal or soaked wooden skewers. Grill, covered, over medium heat until no longer pink, turning once, 10-12 minutes., Meanwhile, place lemons on grill, cut side down. Grill until lightly browned, 8-10 minutes. Squeeze lemon halves over chicken. Drizzle with remaining oil; sprinkle with chives.

SPICY LEMON CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a greased 3-qt. slow cooker, combine the onion, water, lemon juice, oil and seasonings. Add chicken; turn to coat. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until a thermometer reads 170°. Remove chicken and keep warm., In a saucepan, combine the cornstarch and cold water until smooth. Gradually add the cooking juices. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with chicken over noodles. Sprinkle with parsley if desired.

SPICY GRILLED LEMON CHICKEN

Steps:

• For the chicken: Remove the skin from the chicken breasts and take the breasts off the bone separating out the tenders. Cut the breasts in half lengthwise. Put the breasts between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and pound them thin with a rolling pin or small skillet.
• Put the chicken breasts in a resealable plastic bag, pour the oil into the bag, and add the red pepper flakes, salt and pepper, parsley, thyme, and lemon zest. Mix it all together, seal the bag, put it in a bowl, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight. Refrigerate the tenders separately.
• Preheat a grill or grill pan over medium heat.
• Oil the grill to prevent the chicken from sticking. When you are ready to cook, remove the chicken from the refrigerator. Put the chicken breasts and tenders on the grill and cook until cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes per side (reserve the chicken tenders for the online Round 2 Recipe Grilled Chicken and Apple Wraps).
• For the salad: In a saucepan with a lid, heat 2 cups water, chicken broth, and 1 teaspoon salt over medium-high heat. Stir in the rice and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer until the rice is tender, 40 to 45 minutes. Fluff the rice with a fork and spread it out onto a sheet pan to cool.
• In a large bowl, combine the cooled rice, onions, celery, carrots, and mushrooms.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the lemon juice, brown mustard, canola oil, salt and pepper, to taste, parsley, and thyme. Whisk until well combined. Pour the dressing over the salad and gently toss everything together. (Reserve 2 cups for the Round 2 Recipe Stuffed Peppers.) Cover and refrigerate if not serving right away.
• Serve the breasts while hot with the Brown Rice and Mushroom Salad.

CHICKEN WITH LEMON AND SPICY SPRING ONIONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Very thinly slice 1 lemon; tease out seeds. Place chickens on a rimmed baking sheet; season outsides and insides all over with salt and black pepper. Scatter red onions, three-quarters of spring onions, and half of lemon slices around.
• Cook green garlic, oil, and butter in a small saucepan over medium heat, swirling occasionally, until butter melts and garlic starts to lightly sizzle; season with salt and black pepper. Pour over chickens, letting some of the mixture drip onto onions and lemon.
• Roast chickens, tossing onions and lemon and basting chickens with drippings in baking sheet occasionally, until chickens are golden brown all over and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the breast registers 160°F and onions and lemon are softened and starting to brown, 80 minutes-2 hours.
• Remove baking sheet from oven and transfer chickens to a cutting board, leaving onions and lemon behind. Place bread slices on baking sheet and turn once to coat in chicken fat. Return baking sheet with bread and vegetables to oven and roast until vegetables are starting to sizzle and crisp and bread is toasted, 10-15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, thinly slice remaining spring onions and toss in a medium bowl with parsley and remaining lemon slices. Season with salt, black pepper, and enough red pepper flakes to achieve your desired level of spiciness.
• Carve chickens and transfer to a large shallow bowl or platter (or serve right on the cutting board). Pour any remaining juices on baking sheet over chicken and scatter roasted onions and lemon slices around, followed by raw spring onion mixture. Slice each toast into a few pieces and serve alongside.

SPICY GRILLED CHICKEN WITH LEMON AND PARSLEY

Steps:

• Prepare grill for medium-high, indirect heat (for a charcoal grill, bank coals on one side of grill; for a gas grill, leave one or two burners off). Combine paprika, salt, black pepper, and cayenne in a small bowl.
• Working one at a time, place chickens on a work surface, skin side up. Using your palms, press firmly on breastbone to flatten breast. Season chickens all over with paprika mixture, patting to adhere.
• Grill chickens, skin side up, over direct heat, rotating occasionally and moving to cooler side of grill as needed to control flare-ups, until browned, 5-8 minutes. Turn skin side down and grill, rotating occasionally, until browned, 8-10 minutes. Turn chickens skin side up and move to indirect heat. Grill, rotating occasionally, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of thighs registers 165°, 50-60 minutes. Transfer to cutting boards and let rest 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, drizzle bread on both sides with 1/4 cup oil total and grill over direct heat until toasted and lightly charred, about 4 minutes; transfer to a platter.
• Grill lemons, cut side down, over direct heat until lightly charred and juices start to caramelize, about 4 minutes.
• Place chickens on top of bread and scatter parsley over. Squeeze 2 or 3 lemon halves over; serve with remaining lemons.
• Do Ahead
• Chickens can be grilled 2 hours ahead; hold at room temperature. Grill over high to reheat, about 4 minutes, before finishing as directed above.

SPICY PAN FRIED CHICKEN LIVERS WITH LEMON GARLIC DIPPING SAUCE

Steps:

• Soak chicken livers in mixture of buttermilk, hot sauce, and worcestershire sauce for at LEAST 2 hours in the fridge.
• For the sauce you want to mix mayo, sour cream, lemon juice, garlic, old bay seasoning and worcestershire sauce in a bowl until fully incorperated. You want to make it before you fry the livers to give the flavors time to mingle. Place in fridge until just about to serve.
• In a bowl combined corn flour, all purpose flour, black pepper, cayenne pepper, old bay and creole seasoning.
• Add your peanut oil to a large sauce pan. Make sure it's large enough to fit the livers, but leave enough room in between so they are not too crowded. Or you can do them in batches.
• Roll the livers in the dry seasoned mixture and place in the hot pan. Try to keep the heat between Med-high to Med.
• Cook about 8-10 minutes on each side. It depends on the size of the livers. Turn down the temp if they start getting too brown too fast.
• If not sure on their being done, you can just brown them on each side and then pop them in a 350F for about 10 minutes.
• Once done, serve immediately with a generous spoon full of dipping sauce.

SPICY GINGER AND LEMON CHICKEN

Steps:

• Season chicken with salt and pepper. Heat the oil in a large saucepan until hot but not smoking. Add the chicken legs in one layer, and brown them over medium to high heat, turning occasionally, for 15 minutes. Remove chicken from pan and set aside.
• Add the rest of the ingredients to the pan, bring the mixture to a boil, reduce the heat to low and return the chicken to pan. Cover, and cook gently for 15 minutes or until done. Serve, one leg per person, with some of the cooking juices.

SPICY LEMON CHICKEN RISOTTO

Steps:

• Combine the cumin, coriander, chilli, garlic, fresh coriander leaves and oil.
• Add the chicken and marinate for as long as possible.
• Grill until chicken is cooked through.
• Keep warm.
• If you prefer you can cut the chicken into small pieces before you marinate it.
• To make the risotto bring the chicken stock to a simmer.
• Keep hot on a low gas.
• Saute onion and garlic in olive oil.
• Add rice and stir until mixture is coated in oil.
• Add more oil if necessary.
• Add wine and stir until absorbed.
• Add half of the lemon juice and stir until absorbed.
• Add chicken stock, one ladle at a time and stir until all liquid is absorbed.
• If rice is still too chewy add some diluted stock, one ladle at a time, until rice is tender.
• Place spinach leaves in a colander and blanch with boiling water.
• Drain and transfer to a bowl.
• Stir through remaining lemon juice and finely chopped lemon rind.
• Stir spinach mix through risotto.
• Season to taste with sea salt and cracked black pepper.
• Slice cooked chicken into small strips and stir through risotto.
• Serve topped with more cracked black pepper, lemon rind, fresh coriander leaves and parmesan cheese.

SPICY GARLIC CHICKEN WITH LEMON GLAZE

Steps:

• Season chicken with salt and pepper. Stir together panko, garlic and oregano; place in a shallow dish. Dredge both sides of chicken in panko mixture.
• Combine lemon juice, honey, tabasco, and zest for glaze in a small bowl, set aside.
• Heat oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add chicken; saute' until browned on both sides and cooked through, about 12 minutes. Remove chicken from the skillet.
• Add lemon-honey glaze to the skillet; reduce until syrupy, less than a minute. Return chicken to the skillet, flipping the pieces once to coat them with glaze.
• Serve.

COLD SPICY LEMON AND ORANGE CHICKEN

Steps:

• in a mixing bowl stir together yoghurt, orange and lemon juice, ginger, chillies, coriander,turneric, salt and creme fraiche.
• in a saute pan heat the oil with the bay leaf, peppercorns and cardamon and cook for a couple of minutes.
• pour in the yoghurt and creme fraiche mix and cook for a further minute.
• Add cut up chicken and cook , stirring from time to time for 5 - 8 minutes until cooked.
• stir in coriander leaf and tomatoes and cook for further 3 minutes until tomatoes have heated thru.
• leave to cool.
• serve with rice or crusty bread.