Green Olive Baked Chicken

Here's a classy recipe that my Mum loves to cook

3/4 cup pitted green olives, halved
1.6kg chicken (8 pieces. My mum uses deboned thighs)
4 cloves garlic, peeled and halved
1/2 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
2 tbsp grated lemon zest (about 2 lemons)
250g cherry tomatoes
Cracked black pepper & sea salt
2 tbsp olive oil

Preheat oven to 200C. Soak olives in cold water for 5 min to remove excess salt. Drain.
Place chicken in baking dish, a piece of garlic under each portion.
Combine olives, parsley, lemon zest, tomatoes, pepper, salt & olive oil and spoon over chicken.
Bake 45-55min or until chicken is golden and cooked. Place on serving plates and serve drizzled with pan juices.
My Mum serves hers with broccolini, roasted halved potatoes and boiled/microwaved sweet potato.

Because our kids are keen on plain tasting food at this stage we baked some plain chicken as well and then gave them the vegies as well. It didn't take any extra time and we had a fabulous meal.