You guys love easy chicken recipes––I fully realized this fact when I posted this one-pan roasted lemon chicken recipe a while back and The Woks of Life readership went crazy for it.
Since then, I’ve been dreaming up new ways to cook entire meals using just one pan, and this Mediterranean Chicken Thighs recipe may just be the best idea yet––perhaps even (dare I say it?) better than the roasted lemon chicken recipe.
It uses the same basic concept as that recipe––of roasting chicken and potatoes in one pan for a complete meal (maybe with a salad on the side). But instead of lemon as the primary flavor, this recipe includes roasted red peppers, tomatoes, and capers.
You only need about 10 ingredients for this recipe, many of which you probably already have in your pantry. You just sear the chicken thighs quickly in your roasting pan, placed right on your stove. Then you dump in a few potatoes, a jar of sliced roasted red peppers, a bottle of capers, a pint of grape tomatoes, a few garlic cloves, and some oregano.
It all gets tossed together with olive oil, salt and pepper, and then you can throw it into the oven for an hour and get on with all the other things you have to do on a busy weeknight or weekend afternoon.
When you take that roaster out of the oven, it is a complete, delicious meal that tastes good enough for a fancy dinner.
Before we move on, I will say that you need a pretty big roasting pan to execute this recipe. I recently bought this Cuisinart Multiclad Pro Roaster to cook an extra Thanksgiving turkey (we had 50 people over this year, and one turkey wasn’t going to cut it), and I’m really happy with it!
Ok, let’s get this mediterranean chicken thigh recipe started.
Mediterranean Chicken: Recipe Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Rinse the chicken and pat dry with paper towels. Season the chicken with salt and pepper.
Heat a roasting pan over high medium high heat and add a few tablespoons of olive oil. Sear the chicken skin-side down until lightly golden.
Flip the chicken over and turn off the heat.
Stir in the potatoes, tomatoes, red peppers, capers, garlic, and oregano. Season everything with a bit more salt and pepper to taste, and drizzle with a few more tablespoons of olive oil.
Throw into the oven for 45-55 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley if desired.
Serve this deliciously colorful roasted mediterranean chicken thigh dish hot out of the oven!
Mediterranean Chicken Thighs
Ingredients
- 8 chicken thighs
- salt and pepper
- olive oil
- 1 1/2 pounds potatoes (680g, scrubbed and cut into small chunks)
- 1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes (about 275-300g)
- 10 ounces roasted red peppers (280g, drained and sliced)
- 1/4 cup capers (drained)
- 8 cloves garlic (peeled and crushed)
- 5 sprigs fresh oregano (or 1 teaspoon dried oregano)
- 3 tablespoons parsley (finely chopped, optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Rinse the chicken and pat dry with paper towels. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Heat a roasting pan over high medium high heat and add a few tablespoons of olive oil.
- Sear the chicken skin-side down until lightly golden. Flip the chicken over and turn off the heat.
- Stir in the potatoes, tomatoes, red peppers, capers, garlic, and oregano. Season everything with a bit more salt and pepper to taste, and drizzle with a few more tablespoons of olive oil. Throw into the oven for 45-55 minutes.
- Sprinkle with parsley if desired and serve!
Nutrition
Julie says
Love this recipe! I added some chicken stock as I like a little juice. absolutely delicious! Next time I’m going to use parsnips instead of potatoes.
Sarah says
Nice! Thanks for giving the recipe a try and leaving us feedback, Julie!
Joseph Cloud says
This was fantastic! We are making it again and looking forward to it. I actually used boneless skinless chicken thighs (all we could find at this time) and it worked great! Served with hummus, tzatziki, and pita. Thanks for this awesome meal!
Sarah says
Oooh loved the accoutrements you served this with. Glad you and the family enjoyed it, Joseph!
Betsy says
Just wanted to say this recipe was a total hit! So simple, but so flavorful and delicious. I can’t help but thinking that David who gave the recipe a 1 star review must have done something terribly wrong to get anything but a delicious result. Our family loved it!
Sarah says
I’m so glad you and the family enjoyed it Betsy!
David, the guy in the woods of NH says
MEH, btw, this is the first time ever using that word when reviewing a recipe that I made online. The pics looked fantastic but there was not enough melding of flavors to make me want to repeat this dish ever. It needed a sauce and this didn’t happen with the ingredients. Wine might be needed, maybe crushed tomatoes of sorts instead of grape tomatoes. Again, sorry, this was an epic fail for flavor….but here I am as a single guy trying to salvage this dish cause I made the full version.
Sarah says
Hi David, meh, huh? And a one star review to boot! Did you salt the dish to taste? So many people have made this recipe and loved it, including us! Not sure what else could’ve gone wrong.
Guy says
This recipe was great. Never used roasted red peppers to cook, they were excellent.
Thanks for this great recipe
Sarah says
You’re welcome, Guy!
Miriam Wiesel says
We just made this for dinner. It was really delicious. I made it just as written and did not change a thing. It was fast to prepare and easy. I highly recommend.
Sarah says
Thank you so much, Miriam! Looks like many people are finding and cooking this recipe in lockdown these days! It really is so easy, and many of the ingredients can be found in the pantry. :)
Bruce says
Cuisine: Chinese???? Really???
Sarah says
Haha oops, that was a typo, Bruce! I’ve fixed it just now.
Gaetano Vitale says
Made this last night was great enjoyed this dinner
Sarah says
So glad to hear that!!