This Healthy Garlic Lemon Chicken Recipe is just 268 calories with 53.7g of protein!
Plus, you can make this healthy lemony chicken recipe in just 35 minutes, including prep time! I love how quick it is… and easy!
This low calorie lemon chicken baked recipe is easy and impressive. And perfect anytime of the year.
The bright flavors of the lemon juice and zest and the aromatic garlic makes for the best healthy chicken recipes for dinner.
This Healthy Garlic Lemon Chicken Recipe is just 268 calories with 53.7g of protein!
Healthy Garlic Lemon Chicken Recipe
I love this bright lemony chicken recipe. It’s great year-round and goes great with all of my Low Calorie Sides for Chicken!
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make the best lemon chicken breast recipes.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll find a nutrition label, the best lemony chicken marinade, and more in the sections below.
To make this lemon chicken recipe easy, I’ve supplied you with the following sections.
Read though them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Baked Lemon Chicken Ingredients (shopping list!)
- How to Make Lemony Chicken
- Healthy Garlic Lemon Chicken Recipe (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Lemony Chicken Recipes
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin these healthy chicken breast recipes to Pinterest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for the best lemon chicken marinade…
Baked Lemon Chicken Ingredients
This lemon chicken sauce is packed with flavor, and without a ton of ingredients.
In fact, you might already have all the ingredients to make this marinade for lemon chicken!
Shopping List for Lemon Chicken Garlic Recipes:
- Boneless skinless chicken breasts
- Salt and pepper
- Italian seasoning
- Olive oil spray
- Garlic
- Lemon
- Chicken broth
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this low calorie lemon with chicken recipe you want to make. It will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for this recipe for healthy chicken breast in lemon sauce can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make recipes for chicken breast healthy and perfect every time…
How to Make Lemony Chicken
You don’t need to douse your chicken in butter and oil. Not when you use ingredients that add moisture like lemon juice and chicken broth.
I cut 100’s off calories from the original lemony chicken breast recipes by removing the butter, and instead browning the chicken breasts in olive oil spray.
You can use this tip in all your healthy chicken recipes. Not just when baking lemon chicken recipes.
How to make Lemon Chicken Recipe Baked:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Season the chicken breasts all over with salt, pepper and the Italian seasoning.
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet (an oven safe skillet is ideal) over medium high heat and spray with olive oil.
- Add the chicken breasts cut side up, and cook for 3-5 minutes until browned. Flip and cook for an additional 3-5 minutes until browned.
- Transfer the chicken to a baking dish, unless you are using an oven safe skillet, in that case skip this step.
- In a small bowl, mix together the garlic, lemon zest and juice, and chicken broth. Pour the butter mixture over the chicken.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
- To serve, add the chicken to a plate (or individual plates) and spoon over the sauce from the bottom of the pan.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best lemon chicken baked recipe…
Healthy Garlic Lemon Chicken Recipe
This healthy lemon chicken recipe is easy and delicious. I cut 100’s of calories with the help of chicken broth and lemon juice. And omitted most of the oil, and all of the butter.
This helps you save calories, unhealthy fats, and best of all… it saves you money!
Garlic Lemon Chicken (LOW CALORIE)
Ingredients
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- Olive oil spray
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1/4 cup chicken broth
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Season the chicken breasts all over with salt, pepper and the Italian seasoning.
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet (an oven safe skillet is ideal) over medium high heat and spray with olive oil.
- Add the chicken breasts cut side up, and cook for 3-5 minutes until browned. Flip and cook for an additional 3-5 minutes until browned.
- Transfer the chicken to a baking dish, unless you are using an oven safe skillet, in that case skip this step.
- In a small bowl, mix together the garlic, lemon zest and juice, and chicken broth. Pour the butter mixture over the chicken.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
- To serve, add the chicken to a plate (or individual plates) and spoon over the sauce from the bottom of the pan.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Lemony Chicken Recipes
The nutrition and calories are based off 1 chicken breast (about 1/2 lb) form the recipe for lemon chicken breast above.
Important Note: As a reminder, at Lose Weight By Eating it is our goal to make you healthier, all-natural versions of your favorite recipes… not all will be “diet worthy” depending on the diet you are on. But they will be healthier versions to help curb your cravings.
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