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One of our town's favorite spots for enjoyable dinners is our local diner, Lancer's Diner, or as our daughter likes to call it, "the Club." One of the former Lancer's cooks, now retired, prepared a very homey Greek dish with chicken, potatoes, oregano, and lemon, very easy, very tasty. Perfect for orthodontic patients and everyone else.

This is probably not the same recipe as the one at Lancer's Diner, but it is our family's version. I am told this is close enough.

Please read the entire recipe before you begin.

• 1 whole chicken, cut into 8 or 10 parts (depending on how large the chicken breasts are). Rub with olive oil, set aside.

In a plastic bag combine:

• 3 Tbsp. olive oil
• 3 Tbsp. dried oregano
• ½ tsp. freshly ground pepper
• 1 tsp. salt

Add to the bag:

• 2 large all purpose potatoes, peeled and cut into 10 to 12 wedges each
• 1 medium sweet potato, peeled and sliced into similar sized wedges
• 1 or 2 medium onions (I used sweet onions) cut into quarters
• 10 to 20 baby carrots
• 4 garlic cloves, bruised but not chopped

Coat vegetables with mixture in bag and set aside.

In an ovenproof pan, brown the chicken in 2 Tbsp. of olive oil, 3 to 5 minutes on each side. (I like to use an enamel frying pan with the wooden handle removed for this part of the recipe.) Add the vegetable mixture and olive oil to the pan with the chicken.

Into the hot pan add:

• ½ c. white wine
• ¾ c. chicken broth
• 1 tsp. dried oregano

Cook 6 to 10 minutes on high heat and place hot pan in a 375° oven. Bake about 45 minutes, until the vegetables are tender and the chicken is cooked through. Just when ready to serve, sprinkle juice of ½ to 1 whole lemon, depending on the size of the lemon and your taste for lemon.

Notes:

1. I have used already cooked chicken. If you do this, cook the vegetables according to the recipe and place chicken pieces in sauce and heat about 10 minutes.
2. If you prefer, you can just use chicken broth to substitute for white wine.
3. This dish is just great made ahead and reheated. Just put the lemon juice on before dinner is served.

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