You don’t have to be an executive chef to make a delicious meal.
This easy baked chicken recipe will feed you for a couple of days and impress your friends who may have thought you had no cooking skills!
Here are the ingredients you will need:
- 2-4 pieces of chicken legs –
- 5 Carrots
- 1 package of peeled and packaged garlic
- 5-6 Shallots (you will find these near the onions in your grocery store)
- 2 Leeks
- A few sprigs of rosemary and thyme (you will find these with other herbs in the produce section)
- Salt, garlic powder, black pepper
- A 9×13 aluminum pan (also called a half-sized pan)
Before you start, pre-heat your oven to 250 degrees.
If you don’t like touching raw meat you can use latex gloves. You can find these almost anywhere. Check the first-aid aisle at the grocery store. I actually got mine at Home Depot. They’re everywhere.
Start by cutting your vegetables:
- Cut the ends off the shallots. I put those in the pan first.
- Then I put in one package of garlic. Add more if you want.
- Cut two leeks in ½ inch slices
- Trim the ends off 5 carrots and then peel them. Then cut them into 1-inch slices. You can add more or fewer carrots depending on how much you like them.
- You will need some type of oil. I use avocado oil. Rub that into the chicken and coat it well.
- Season the oiled chicken with salt, garlic powder, and pepper. I don’t measure it. I just give a few shakes like this.
- Now lay the chicken on the shallots and garlic that are already in the pan.
- Add the leeks and carrots on top of the chicken. As well as putting some on the sides and underneath.
- Now take a few sprigs of rosemary and thyme and lay it on top of the chicken.
Now place the pan UNCOVERED inside the oven for about 2 hours.
At the end of 2 hours, take it out and you will notice that the rosemary and thyme are sort of dried out and the chicken has a nice golden skin. Throw out the herbs.
Turn the chicken over so that the crispy top part is now on the bottom in the liquid and on top of all the veggies.
Cover it with tin foil and place it back in the oven for at least another hour but longer is better. I will usually let it cook for another 3 hours. It will only get more tender and juicy.
Watch the video to see the end product. How good does that look?
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