Dinner Tonight: Lemon chicken with radishes and peas
Radishes roast to cut their bite, rendering them more like rose-colored potatoes that cook with peas and chicken.
Dinner Tonight
May 26, 2026

Lemon Chicken With Radishes and Peas

Lemon Chicken With Radishes and Peas
Andrew Bui for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne.

Recipe by Yasmin Fahr | Total time: 55 minutes

A colorful dish primed for spring, or whenever you crave the promise of the season: bright colors and flavors. Here, radishes roast to cut their bite, rendering them more like rose-colored potatoes that cook with peas and chicken, which is crisped to a golden hue. Vibrant preserved (or fresh) lemons are mixed into butter and tucked under the chicken skin so that the butter melts into the meat while the chopped lemon bits flavors it, lingering as bite-size treasures. As for variations, those are abundant: Season the chicken with cumin, add fresh or dried herbs to the butter, and use your preferred variety of skin-on chicken parts to please every guest. 

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