Stoved Garlic Chicken
"This is a good low fat recipe from Rosemary Conley's Low Fat Cookbook. It has plenty of flavour."
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 4 chicken portions
- 100 g lean bacon
- 4 garlic cloves, chopped
- 2 1⁄2 lbs floury potatoes, cut into thin slices
- 2 large onions, sliced
- 2 teaspoons fresh thyme or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 600 ml chicken stock
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
- fresh chives (to garnish)
directions
- Preheat oven to 180 deg Celsius.
- Trim the chicken and remove any fat.
- Remove the rind and any fat from the bacon.
- Dry fry the chicken, bacon and garlic in a non stick pan until the chicken is lightly browned.
- Place a layer of potatoes and onion slices in a casserole dish and season well with salt, pepper and thyme.
- Arrange chicken, garlic and bacon on top, then cover with the remaining potato and onion slice.
- Season again add stock.
- Cover and bake in the oven approx 11/2-2 hours or until the chicken is tender and potatoes are cooked.
- Add more stock if needed.
- Sprinkle with snipped chives and serve with selection of fresh veges.
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Reviews
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Excellent, great flavor, easy and whilst cooking it smelled great! I used skinless thighs with the bone in and it produced lovely juices. Won't make this that much this time of year but certainly in the autumn and winter. The chicken was tender, I uncovered the dish the last 15 minutes of cooking, there were enough juices, this time of year it is difficult to buy floury potatoes and new ones don't soak up the stock so much. The bacon was very good in it.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Latchy
Torquay, Queensland - Australia
Our dear friend Latchy passed away from acute myeloid leukemia in August 2006, after being diagnosed with the disease in October 2005. She was a dear friend to many Recipezaar members throughout the world and she will be greatly missed. Latchy was a great chef; and her speciality was Asian food. She loved wine and cheese, but wasn’t fussed on desserts. She had a great sense of humour and was the life of any party. Latchy was her childhood nickname, and those of us who knew her real name still called her ‘Latch’. We loved her. With the permission of Latchy’s daughter, here is the eulogy read at her funeral (edited slightly to maintain the family’s privacy). Recipezaar and her Recipezaar chat group, the ‘Tipsy Tarts’ were represented at the funeral by Latchy’s close Zaar friends, Mummamills, Chrissyo and Liara:
“Latchy, was born in Melbourne in 1939. In her younger years she led a very energetic life and was very involved in swimming and dancing. She had the opportunity to compete in the 1956 Olympics but couldn’t be fussed to do the training and preferred to enjoy herself instead.
Latchy met her late husband, Bruce, in Melbourne. Bruce being with the army, they started their life of travel together and extended their family. Their first child was born in Perth, their second in New Guinea and their third child, in Melbourne. They also lived in Newcastle, Sydney, and Singapore before settling in Brisbane.
It was in Singapore that her love of cooking, sewing and craft began. Latchy broke
military protocol for dining-in nights. Women were finally allowed to attend.
One day, Bruce was watching a TV program about sailing around the world. On the program when the wife was told of this plan she said “No Way”, but Latchy said, “When are you going to start?”
So, Bruce retired from the army to begin building a 54 foot steel ketch in the back yard, learning as he went. Latchy worked for many years until they finally set off around the world in 1987. They got as far as Malaysia and loved it so much they didn’t go any further. They loved the lifestyle, the people and the food and only came back when Bruce fell ill.
After Bruce passed away, Latchy developed her talents, such as painting, and became involved with her family and grandchildren. About 7 years ago, she decided to make her life in Hervey Bay, a beach-side retirement town in Queensland, Australia. She loved the lifestyle, the people and became very involved in the community life.
Latchy started volunteering with tax help, then the multicultural respite where she
put her cooking skills to use and then with Legacy (an organization which supports the widows of servicemen and ex-servicemen). Latchy opened up a new world by learning about computers and the internet and she met her great friends, the Tipsy Tarts through the website Recipezaar.
Latchy was a strong, independent, funny, straight forward and loving mother, grandmother and friend, and we will miss her greatly.”
