Thursday, February 24, 2011

All Purpose Chicken

This is the default recipe in my house. Anytime we are feeling especially lazy we take the 10 minutes to prep and throw it in the oven. This recipe alone saves my family tons of money on groceries. The reason I like it so much is that you get a fried food taste with none of the effort.

For this recipe you will need:

3-5 medium sized frozen chicken breasts
some kind of edible oil (we only use olive oil in my house)
all the spices in your kitchen
a can of vegetables (we like green beans, peas or mixed for this)
onion


Preheat your oven to 350. Coat a large baking pan with your oil and let about 1/4 an inch sit in the bottom. Throw your chicken in frozen, roll it around in the oil and throw whatever spices you feel like on it. Lemon-pepper and salt is a classic here. Throw that in the oven for about 25 minutes.

While that is cooking dice some onion and open your can of veggies. Flip the chicken when your timer goes off, carefully dump the veggies and onion in the pan and let it all cook for about 30 minutes. Cut into your largest piece of chicken to see if it is cooked through. If you see pink in the middle and you like salmonella poisoning then it is time to pull your chicken out. However if food poisoning does not appeal to your senses, let your chicken cook for another 15 minutes. When you pull it out, the onions should be cooked through and will have absorbed the flavor of your spices and chicken.

You get a fully cooked and impressive tasting meal and you hardly did a thing!

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