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Baked lemon chicken with lemonade concentrate

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Ingredients
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  • all purpose flour
  • kosher salt
  • pepper
  • garlic powder
  • smoked paprika
  • cayenne
  • 1 can frozen lemonade concentrate
Mix all-purpose flour with kosher salt, pepper, garlic powder, smoked paprika and a little cayenne.
Coat the bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs one at a time, knocking off the excess.
Coating the thighs
  • 5 whole chicken thighs
  • butter
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
Melt butter with 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a cast iron pan, spread it around and add the chicken presentation side down.
  • 3 tbsp brown sugar
  • 3 tbsp white vinegar
In a bowl mix one can of defrosted lemonade concentrate, undiluted, with 3 tablespoons of brown sugar and 3 tablespoons of white vinegar.
The lemonade sauce
Brown until well coloured, about 5 more minutes before flipping, then brown the other side.
Turn the chicken back over, make sure the brown sugar is mixed in, and pour the sauce over.
Bake at 350; the original recipe says 45 minutes, but after 20 minutes the chicken was at about 164.5.
  • lemon
Turn the chicken over, baste, put lemon on top and baste again; return for another 5 or 10 minutes until about 175.