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Tangy Chicken with Olive Herb Dressing

Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time45 minutes
Course: dinner
Cuisine: American
Keyword: castelvetrano olives, chicken, garlic, gluten free, lemon, olive oil, Parsley, turmeric, white wine vinegar
Servings: 2 people
Author: GFchow @ gfchow.com

Ingredients

Chicken

  • 3 ½ pounds bone-in skin-on chicken parts, trimmed of excess skin (one medium-sized whole chicken cut up into breast/wing and thigh/drumstick).
  • 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
  • 6 tablespoons olive oil divided
  • Kosher salt and black pepper
  • ½ cup white vinegar

Olive Herb Dressing

  • 1 cup green Castelvetrano olives pitted and crushed or cut/torn in half
  • 2 garlic cloves finely grated with a zester or use a garlic press
  • 1/2 cup parsley tender leaves and stems, rinsed, dried, and chopped
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice

Instructions

  • Heat oven to 450 degrees.

Chicken

  • Place chicken on a rimmed baking sheet and coat with turmeric, 2 tablespoons olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Make sure chicken is skin-side up. Then pour vinegar over and around chicken and place in the oven.
  • Bake chicken, undisturbed, until cooked through and deeply browned all over, 25 to 30 minutes. If the skin isn’t browned enough, put the chicken under the broiler for a minute or two.
  • Once chicken is cooked, remove baking sheet from the oven and transfer chicken to a serving platter, leaving behind any of the juices and bits stuck to the pan.

Olive Herb Dressing

  • While chicken is cooking, combine olives, garlic, parsley, lemon and the remaining 4 tablespoons olive oil in a medium sized bowl. Season with salt and pepper.

Assembly

  • Pour the olive mixture onto the sheet pan. Using a spatula or wooden spoon, gently scrape up all the bits the chicken left behind, letting the olive mixture mingle with the rendered fat and get increasingly saucy. Pour olive mixture over the chicken and serve.

Notes

All white meat (4 breasts with attached wings) or all dark meat (8 thighs with attached drumsticks) can be used if you have a preference of one over the other.