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Lemon chicken with bean and radish salad

Quick, easy and healthy. This is a chicken dish you'll want to commit to memory.

Jun 16, 2023 6:00am
By Tamika O'Neill
  • 15 mins preparation
  • 30 mins cooking (plus marinating, cooling, resting)
  • Serves 4
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Lemon chicken with bean and radish salad
This quick and easy chicken recipe makes for a healthy midweek dinner or lunch. Served with a fresh and fragrant green bean, butter bean and radish salad, plus with its tangy hit of lemon, it's a fast chicken recipe that you'll want to commit to memory.
For more chicken recipe ideas, check out our collection of easy chicken dishes.

Ingredients

  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 3 tsp lemon pepper
  • 1 lemon, juice and zest
  • 60 ml (¼ cup) extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
  • 4 chicken breasts (220gm each),
    skin on
  • Micro parsley, to serve
Bean and radish salad:
  • 500 grams green beans, trimmed, halved lengthways
  • 400 grams can butter beans, drained
  • 4 baby red radishes, shaved on
    a mandolin
  • 1 tbsp coarsely chopped mint
  • 1 tbsp coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 2 tbps Sherry vinegar

Method

  • 1
    Preheat oven to 200˚C. Whisk together garlic, pepper, lemon juice and zest with oil in a large bowl. Add chicken, season and toss to coat; set aside to marinate for 15 minutes.
  • 2
    Meanwhile, blanch green beans in salted boiling water; drain then transfer to a large bowl.
  • 3
    Heat a large frying pan over high heat. Drizzle with oil and sear chicken, skin-side down until deep golden (4-6 minutes). Transfer, skin-side up to a large oven tray and bake until chicken is cooked (12-14 minutes). Rest 5 minutes before slicing thickly.
  • 4
    Add butter beans to green beans with radishes and herbs. Drizzle with vinegar, season and toss to combine.
  • 5
    Divide salad among plates with chicken. Scatter with micro parsley and drizzle with extra olive oil.

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