Southern Mode Baked Chicken

Moist, Baked Chicken - Every Time.

There's something virtually waking into a home, a kitchen together with greeted amongst the olfactory holding of chicken savoury, aromatic pleasantness, baking away tenderly inwards the oven. It is that olfactory perception which volition brand our salivary glands function overtime together with it is known to campaign mankind, well, sort of crazy - together with obsessed. That is the agency I am amongst cooking chicken - inwards the oven. It has to plow out tender together with moist every unmarried fourth dimension or the recipe is non worth a lick.

Tired of dried-out chicken?  Then this recipe is for you.

Southern folks know how to attention for together with ready only virtually all meats. That is, all that are inwards our cervix of the woods. We may non know virtually elk or moose, but it can't live on much dissimilar than our white-tail deer instantly tin it? Poultry is our specialty, good mayhap pork is too. There is a proverb unopen to here, "We had hen-houses earlier in that location were eggs."

This is an onetime recipe, cooked inwards together with thence many homes across the south. When gardens are every bit novel every bit the leap chickens, that's when this recipe is the best. Young onions amongst fresh modest southern tomatoes brand this chicken dish extra special. But it is the agency inwards which it is prepared too, together with amongst the just right seasoning, that when it all comes together baking tenderly inwards the oven, that aromatic pleasantness takes place. The 1 that drives us to a province of anticipation on the crazy side. Enjoy!

Baked Chicken amongst Spring Onions together with Tomatoes

6 to 8 servings

1 immature chicken cut-up, or your favorite chicken pieces (I used thighs)
three tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon cooking oil
1 or two bunches leap onions (or pearl onions)
1/3 loving cup chicken broth
v or vi modest ripe tomatoes, virtually 1 1/2 inch diameter

Southern Chicken Seasoning

1/2 tablespoon poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon tabular array salt
1/2 teaspoon seasoning salt
1/2 teaspoon dark pepper
1/4 teaspoon the world bay leaf

Wash together with dry out the chicken, take away excess fat. Mix the seasoning mixture together inwards a modest bowl together with sprinkle both sides of the pieces generously.

In a broad heavy skillet, melt butter amongst stone oil over medium high oestrus together with when melted, add together chicken pieces peel side down. Do non crowd the pan. Allow the chicken to precook, virtually 3-4 minutes. Turn the pieces over together with ready for virtually three minutes. Remove to a large casserole peel side upward or deep bakery together with maintain cooking chicken.

Add the onions to the skillet together with allow each to chocolate-brown inwards the butter mixture. Remove onions together with identify along amongst the chicken.

Add the chicken broth together with comprehend dish amongst foil. Cook inwards oven for thirty to forty minutes.

Remove foil together with scatter tomatoes which induce got been quartered amidst the chicken. Return to oven together with ready for v minutes or until the tomatoes blister.

Remove together with serve. If desired, work the liquid to brand a most wonderful gravy (roux method).

Note: You produce non induce got to precook the chicken inwards the butter mixture every bit the chicken volition however come upward out tender together with moist. But doing together with thence volition non yield the golden, crispy browned peel that nosotros southerners adore. The butter fried gustatory modality volition live on missing too.