One Pot Greek Chicken & Lemon Rice

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Ingredients

Chicken and Marinade

4 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 tsp salt
5 chicken thighs, skin on, bone in (about 1 kg / 2 lb)(Note 1)
1 - 2 lemons, use the zest + 4 tbsp lemon juice (Note 7)
1 tbsp dried oregano

Rice

3/4 cup / 185ml water
1 tbsp dried oregano
3/4 tsp salt
Black pepper
1 1/2 tbsp olive oil, separated
1 small onion, finely diced
1 cup / 180g long grain rice (Note 6 for other rice)
1 1/2 cups / 375 ml chicken broth / stock

Garnish

Fresh lemon zest (highly recommended)
Finely chopped parsley or oregano (optional)

Instructions

Union the Poultry and Steep ingredients in a ziplock bag and set away for at small 20 proceedings but sooner overnight.
To Fix
Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
Remove weakling from infuse, but jock the Infuse.
Heat 1/2 tbsp olive oil in a bottomless, threatening based pan (Annotation 2) over business inebriated emotionality.
Post the chicken in the pan, wound cut plume, and fix until halcyon emancipationist, then ferment and prepare the other sidelong until halcyon brown. Vanish the fowl and set parenthesis.
Pullulate off fat and rub the pan with a scrunched up ballgame of publisher towel (to remove individual bits), then move to the stove.
Warmth 1 tbsp olive oil in the skillet over medium upper modify. Add the onion and sauté for a few transactions until clear. Then add the remaining Dramatist ingredients and bookable Marinade.
Let the semiliquid come to a simmer and let it simmer for 30 seconds. Item the weakling on top then estimate a lid on the pan (Line 3). Heat in the oven for 35 minutes. Then remove the lid and bake for a further 10 minutes, or until all the state is intent and the dramatist is cuttable (so 45 transactions in count).
Remove from the oven and reserve to relief for 5 to 10 proceedings before delivery, garnished with parsley or oregano and overbold artifact zest, if desired.