Easy, juicy, flavorful roasted pepper chicken recipe seasoned with herbs & spices and roasted with fresh red bell pepper, green bell peppers, celery, and onions.
Have I ever told you guys just what an amazing cook my grandmother is? I’m pretty sure you already know being that so many of her recipes become fan-favorites on this site. She’s a southern cook who happily shares all of her passed-down recipes (something that is rare these days ya know).
Whenever I ask her for a recipe she just lights up and always starts off with, “well, it’s real simple really…” She cooks with so much love and dedication. Never anything too complicated or fancy. Just easy, home-cooked meals that stay etched in your memory forever.
She invited us over for dinner some time ago and served up this roasted pepper chicken. I think it’s also called roasted fajita chicken. It was delicious. So juicy, flavorful, and rustic looking. Just from the name, I was expecting a very peppery chicken but it’s not at all. It’s well seasoned with flavor hints of red & green bell peppers, onions, and celery. She said it was something she just threw together and really didn’t have a recipe for it, but gave me a rough draft. I’ve tried to replicate her recipe 3 times and this is as close as I can come to grandma Barbs roasted pepper chicken.
This roasted pepper chicken makes for a downright easy, delicious, and quick dinner and so versatile. I’ve made it 3 times in 1 month! If we have leftovers I shred it up and make fajitas for lunch (hubby loves this because the chicken is super flavorful the next day) or I do this Mexican chicken soup recipe.
I think the beauty of this roasted pepper chicken recipe is that you can really just add any seasonings you like. It’s the essence of those red bell peppers and celery that really makes it sing. I don’t think I’ve ever roasted a chicken with red bell peppers before and had no idea how much flavor they added. Love it when I learn something new!! Those grandmothers are the best teachers!
Watch me make this Roasted Pepper Chicken from start to finish!
Baked Pepper Chicken
Ingredients
- 5 lb. chicken cut up
- 1/2 - 1 tablespoon olive oil I used a little under a tablespoon. Use just enough to coat chicken
SPICE MIXTURE (double if you like lots of spice. )
- 1 teaspoon seasoning salt or plain salt can add more if you like it a tad bit salty
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon cajun seasoning
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar packed
- 1 teaspoon of poultry seasoning optional
- 1 green bell pepper sliced
- 2 red bell peppers sliced
- 4 celery stalks cut up
- 1/2 red onion sliced
- Melted butter
Instructions
- Toss chicken with olive oil.
- Combine spices and sprinkle generously over chicken and under the skin.
- Cover at let sit overnight or for at least 4 hours
- Preheat oven to 425. F
- Line a casserole dish with foil.
- Spread peppers, onions and celery in an even layer in pan.
- Place chicken on top of vegetables.
- Bake for 45 minutes
- Remove from oven and spread melted butter over chicken.
- Return to oven and cook for another 10-15 minutes or until fully cooked. (you can also broil for the last few minutes to crisp up the skin)
- Let chicken rest for a few minutes before serving.
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I’ve been using this recipe for a few years (doubling the spices) and it is a HIT INDEED! Time after time it never disappoints! My mother requested it for Mother’s Day dinner and everyone raved over it!
I had a house full of family and this chicken recipe was the life of the party!
Are we suppose to bake the chicken covered or not covered? And how much butter should I use?
This recipe was superb. I used it for Christmas Dinner 2019 and all the family loved it. I will make it again for myself in 2020 as one of my favorite recipes. For the peppers, I used red, orange and yellow and it was awesome. Even my nephew, a professional chef, said it was good. I really felt good then. I will look forward to trying more of your recipes in the future.
I made this cake today following the recipe to the T using double the ingredients. I wish I could show you how good this cake tasted and looked….This cake could easily jump into my top five go too cakes which means i now have 6. You can see this cake on my Instagram/KookiesandKakes4u
OMG. Best chicken and peppers ever! Easy and delicious – I mean finger licking good. And I don’t like peppers. Will definitely make again and looking for others from the Diva now.
Oh, my gosh, I think my husband wanted to renew our marriage vows after I made this dish last night. SO flavorful! I sort of one-and-a-halfed the spices, added cumin and cardomon (not so much of them though). Chicken was juicy, veggies al dente (love roasted peppers). Deeeelish! We had black beans with it, some chunked up avocados and tomato to throw on top of the beans.
Delicious recipe! Definitely a keeper. I double all the spices and leave out the poultry seasoning since I’m not fond of it. This is an easy and quick dinner that can be made on a weeknight or served for Sunday dinner. I served it with my bomb red beans (with ground beef & sausage) and rice. My family loved the meal and were definitely satisfied. Thanks to Grandma Barb and you for this recipe.