Baked Chicken

Hey Jude's Note:

This is a family favorite recipe at our house that I usually make at least once per month. It's really like an oven-fried chicken, it should come out crispy and browned. I don't even measure the ingredients any more, I just dump the flour and spices in the bag and shake away - it's SO easy! This is great with mashed potatoes (if you make gravy with the pan drippings) and corn (in the summer), carrots (in the winter). The original recipe is from GH Illustrated Cookbook, I've changed a few things.

• Total Time: 55 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• ½ cup butter or ½ cup margarine
• ¾ cup flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• 2 teaspoons paprika
• ¼ teaspoon pepper
• 2 (3 lb) fryer chickens , cut into 8 pieces each

Directions:

1. In a large roasting pan (or two 9x13 pans), in a 425° oven, melt the butter or margarine.
2. Mix flour, salt, paprika and pepper in a heavy-duty plastic bag; shake chicken pieces in the bag, a few at a time, until evenly coated.
3. In the pan (s), place the chicken, skin side down, in the melted butter; bake 30 minutes.
4. Turn chicken pieces and bake 15 minutes more until pieces are fork-tender.
5. I usually make gravy from the de-greased pan juices, using some or all of the leftover flour and some chicken stock.

Reviews

[Lighthouse Rita]

We enjoyed this chicken. I really love the simplicity of the recipe. The only thing I did different was to add garlic powder to the flour. Thanks for sharing.

[Chef #1029096]

Tender and moist chicken with a nice flavored coating. And it took minutes to put together with little clean-up. Thanks! :)

[dragon reader]

Thank you! for a wonderful recipe for me to add to my cookbook we love fried chicken but it is so time consuming that we don't have it very often. I did make a substitution I only used a single Tablespoon of melted butter then I used olive oil to make up for the rest of it. it cut out some of the cholesterol and fat content of the meal. I also paired the chicken with chicken flavored rice and broccoli it was a wonderful meal.