That’s right, my child refuses to eat chicken. Okay, not totally. He’ll eat chicken mcnuggets from McDonald’s, but other than that I have the hardest time getting him to eat any type of chicken I cook at home. To be quite honest in all of his 8 years, I’ve only found one way that I can get him to actually eat chicken and like it. It’s the weirdest thing, too because it’s a simple recipe that takes hardly no time at all. It’s something I’ve adapted myself from a couple of various recipes that I’ve tried and thrown together to suit our taste. Anyway, I thought I’d share it not only because it’s one of the only ways my child will eat chicken, but because it’s an excellent recipe for busy parents or parents who just don’t want to spend alot of time cooking. I don’t quite have a name for this recipe yet, but here goes.

The Only Chicken Recipe My Son Will Eat

Ingredients:
4 bone-in chicken breasts
1 1/2 tablespoons virgin olive oil
1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons garlic salt (I prefer Lawry’s because it tastes fresh)
1 1/2 tablespoons Lawry’s blended pepper. (With the blue lid)
1 Gallon size ziplock baggy
Foil
(Remember this is just how we like it, if you want more or less garlic salt and/or pepper, then change it to suit your own taste.)

Heat your oven to 350 and cover a 13×9 baking pan with foil. (This makes clean up a breeze.) Set aside pan. Put olive oil, lemon juice, garlic salt, and pepper in the ziplock bag. Rinse chicken and place in the bag one piece at a time. Shake until chicken is evenly coated and place it in the baking pan. Repeat with the remaining 3 pieces of chicken and bake at 350 for about 50 minutes.

That’s basically it. There is very little clean up with this recipe and hardly no prep time. In the 50 minutes that it took for the chicken to cook in the oven, I made some veggies to go with it and then played a game of monopoly at pogo.com.