Marinades Add Flavor To One-Dish Meals

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omer Marinades Add Flavor To One-Dish Meals (NAPS)—For today’s hectic, harried and time-crunched lifestyles, one-dish dinners offer a quick fix: You can prepare, cook, serve and clean up using one dish. Creating fresh-tasting, onedish meals without the added fat and calories of the traditional casserole simply takes the right pantry-staple ingredients. Start with chicken—it’s healthy, conve- nient to prepare and 89 percent of Americans enjoy it at least once a week. Plus, it serves as a gracious vehicle for a wide vari- ety of flavors. To save time, marinate while you bake. This way, flavors are intensified as the marinade bakes into the chicken. Now on supermarket shelves, there’s a myriad of mouth-watering marinades to add savory taste. For example, Lawry’s offers 12 varieties reflect- ing popular cuisines, including such ethnic flavors as Mediter- ranean, Caribbean, Tequila Lime and Sesame Ginger and each con- tains real fruit juice. This colorful dish is a meal in itself. Serve it over hot cookedrice or your favorite pasta, with a fresh loaf of crusty bread. ROASTED CHICKEN AND VEGETABLES Fresh and so easy—this is how dinner shouldbe! 3 poundschicken parts 1 cup Lawry’s Lemon Pepper Marinade with Lemon Juice, divided 6 cups fresh vegetables, cut into 1-inch chunks (onions, zucchini,bell pepper, mushrooms, eggplant, etc.) Hatch a new idea for chicken with zesty marinades thataddflavor while you bake. \% cupoliveoil 1 tablespoon Lawry’s SeasonedSalt Spray broiler pan bottom with nonstick cooking spray; arrange chicken skin-sidedown in pan. Pour *%cup Lemon Pepper Marinade over chicken. Bake in 375F oven for 30 minutes. Turn chicken over and baste with remaining cup Marinade. In large resealable plastic food storage bag, toss vegetables with oil and Seasoned Salt. Arrange vegeta- bles in pan around chicken. Return pan to oven and bake until meat is no longer pink and juices run clear (175F to 185F at thickest point), about 25 to 30 minutes. Makes 4 to 6 servings. Prep. Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 55 minutes Meal Suggestion: Serve with hot, cookedrice or potatoes. Variation: The following Lawry’s Marinades are also excellent in this recipe: Teriyaki Marinade with Pineapple Juice, Mediterranean Marinade with Lemon Juice, Mesquite Marinade with Lime Juice and Herb & Gar- lic Marinade with Lemon Juice.