One Dish Lemon Turkey Cutlets

Posted by Margalit

I'm big on the one dish meal. Who wants to wash a bunch of pots and pans when you can get away with only one? Certainly not me! So I present another chicken dish cooked all in one pan. The original recipe for this Lemon Turkey Cutlet comes from Real Simple magazine, and it was actually named something else, but I’ve changed it enough to warrant a new name.

Ingredients:

8 small red potatoes, cut into eighths (recipe calls for quartered, but I wasn’t sure they were small enough)
Big heap of green beans
2 lemons - 1 sliced thin, one juiced
Olive oil (about 6 Tablespoons worth)
4 cloves garlic, sliced thin
Just under a pound of turkey cutlets (original recipe called for chicken breasts, but I found some local turkey cutlets on sale)
Bunch of shakes Konriko Greek seasoning (my default seasoning of choice, recipe called for salt and pepper)

Spread about a Tablespoon’s worth of olive oil at the bottom of a pan.
Cover with lemon slices.
In a separate bowl, combine juice of 1 lemon, remainder of olive oil, garlic, and several shakes of seasoning.
Coat green beans, and place them on top of the lemon slices.
Then, coat potatoes, and put them around the side of the pan.
Finally, coat poultry, place it on the green beans in the center of the pan.
Pour the remainder of the lemon/oil mixture on top.
Bake in preheated 450-degree oven until everything is golden brown and has that happily-roasted look about it, about 40 minutes.

The recipe mentioned removing poultry and doing some additional roasting to the potatoes/beans, if necessary; thankfully, it wasn’t, maybe because I did cut the potatoes smaller.

Conceptually it’s easy: green beans, red potatoes, and poultry, baked in a single dish with lemon, garlic, and olive oil. Something green, something starchy, something protein, and only one pan to clean. Easy, breezy, just how I like it. It took a little longer than planned, though, I think because scrubbing/cutting potatoes, and washing/snipping the ends off the greenbeans can take a while. If you could find the really tiny new potatoes (so they didn’t need cutting), and if you had a better system for cutting the ends off of green beans (or if you used frozen green beans from Trader Joes), you could cut the time down considerably. In which case it would be really, really easy.

It was pretty tasty. The lemon flavor was strong, and bits of roasted lemons mixed right into the rest of the food. Also, I thought it needed a fair amount of Greek seasoning, though I suspect that it was the salt I was after. Being a low salt family, I think probably some other seasonings might work well, too.

When I was slicing the lemons, I felt sort of stupid, because I wasn’t 100% sure how to slice them. I mean, I know how to cut lemons, but I wasn’t sure if I should leave the peels on, or if they should be wedges, or whatever. Anyhow, this is how I sliced them and lay them in the pan:

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Robin said:

Hi,
I tried this last night with frozen green beans and baby red potatoes and it was really good. I took the meat out and let the veggies roast a bit longer as I like my potatoes well done. It was so good, I'll make it again for sure. Maybe with chicken. Anyways, thanks for sharing.

Posted at 10:58 AM, on May 6 2009

One Dish Lemon Turkey Cutlets

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