Mediterranean Chicken Tray Bake
I'll be sharing one of my family's favourite dinner recipes, my Mediterranean chicken tray bake. It's packed with flavour, healthy and a crowd favourite.
Equipment
- 1 Chopping board
- 1 Sharp knife
- 1 Peeler
- 2 Medium sized bowls
- 1 Baking paper
- 1 Large baking tray
Ingredients
Marinade
- 3 cloves Garlic
- 1/4 cup Olive oil
- 1/4 cup Chicken bone broth / stock
- 1 tbsp Parsley
- 1 tbsp Paprika
- 1/2 tbsp Cumin
- Salt and pepper (to taste)
Whole ingredients
- 1 kg Chicken thighs
- 6 White potatoes
- 8-10 Asparagus'
- 2 Red capsicums
- 200 grams Feta cheese
- 1/2 cup Green olives
Instructions
Marinade
- Chop garlic into small pieces and mix marinade in small bowl
- Coat chicken in 1/3 marinade and pop in the fridge covered for at least 30 minutes
- Chop and peel potatoes, chop capsicum and asparagus (if needed) and place in separate bowl
- Pour remainder of marinade over vegetables and coat until fully covered
- Preheat oven at 200 degrees celsius
- Remove chicken from fridge and assemble over baking paper on baking tray
- Place marinaded vegetables in between chicken and pop baking tray into oven for 15 minutes
- After 15 minutes, remove baking tray from oven and add crumbled feta and olives in between chicken and vegetables on baking tray
- Pop back into the oven for another 15-20 minutes
- Remove from oven after 15-20 minutes and serve cooled.
Notes
- As mentioned, you can diversify the vegetables according to your preferences. Some other vegetables that pair nicely with this recipe are sweet potato, pumpkin, mushrooms, broccoli, cauliflower or zucchini.
- This recipe is best made with chicken thighs, but you can use any part of the chicken. Using chicken breast is fine, but I find that it tastes dry when cooked at 200 degrees celsius. So you may need to adjust the temperature lower if you are using chicken breast (start with 180 degrees celsius and cook for at least 10 minutes longer).
- Feel free to add some lamb or beef kofta to the recipe. We have tried this before and it's super delicious!
- If you enjoy kalamata olives, then you can add this to the recipe or replace the green olives with it. I'm not a fan of kalamata olives, which is why I choose to omit it from this recipe.
- What I love about a good Mediterranean marinade is that you can add so many more herbs and spices to the recipe. I am all about simple recipes here, which is why I keep things minimal. But you can add chives, cilantro, basil, fennel, oregano, sage, tarragon, thyme or rosemary.