Lemon-Pepper Chicken Leg Quarters
November 22, 2025 • 0 comments
This recipe utilizes a few simple steps—seasoning, chilling, searing, and roasting—to guarantee deeply flavored, moist chicken with wonderfully crisp skin.
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- Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 4 chicken leg quarters with skin
- 2 teaspoons lemon-pepper seasoning
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
Directions
- Coat the leg quarters with lemon-pepper, salt, and parsley. Let sit in the refrigerator, covered, for 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Sear chicken, skin-side down, to help crisp the skin, about 5 minutes per side. Transfer to a roasting pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until no longer pink in the centers and juices run clear, about 1 hour. An instant-read thermometer inserted near the bone should read 165°F.
