Easy Baked Lemon Garlic Chicken Legs
These baked lemon garlic chicken legs are so easy to make and so delicious! Oven roasted to perfection and flavored with garlic and lemon - yum yum yum!
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 12 chicken legs
- 2 lemons
- 8 garlic cloves minced
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/4 cup minced parsley for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400F.
- Line the baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Put the chicken legs on the baking sheet in a single layer.
- Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper.
- Rub each chicken leg with minced garlic all over.
- Squeeze one lemon over the chicken legs.
- Slice the second lemon and put the slices on a baking sheet between the chicken legs.
- Put the baking sheet in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
- Take the baking sheet out of the oven and carefully flip each chicken legs with tongs.
- Return the chicken legs to the oven to the top rack and bake for another 20 minutes.
- Switch the oven to Broil and cook for 4 more minutes.
- Remove chicken legs from the oven, put on a platter, pour the pan juices over them and sprinkle with fresh parsley.