OVEN FRIED CHICKEN

I love chicken. It might be my favorite thing. Really. This is my favorite recipe. Our oven fried chicken is easy, quick, and is tasty.

Here is what you need to make this marvel.

CHICKEN  3 LEGS 4 THIGHS

1 ½ CUPS BUTTERMILK

½ TEASPOON SALT

½ TEASPOON GROUND PEPPER

3 SHAKES OF TABASCO

2 CUPS FLOUR

½ TEASPOON SALT

½ TEASPOON PEPPER

Prep :

Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees. Almost everything cooks at 350 degrees. And your wife said cooking was sooooo hard.

Place the buttermilk into a re-seal able plastic bag. Add the salt, pepper and Tabasco.

Add the chicken and 'squeeze' the mixture around all the pieces. Make sure it covers all of them.

Here comes the fun part. Place the bag in a bowl, so it doesn't leak out. And put it in the fridgerator.

Pop open a beer and go find a good John Wayne movie.

Now this should stay in the fridge at LEAST 6 hours. You can also do this step early in the morning before you head off to work, or even the night before. So I don't want hear any crap about you not having the TIME.

OK, the John Wayne marathon is over. Time to create. Place the flour along with the salt & pepper into a brown paper bag. You know the one you got at that store you don't want your wife to know about......

Set the bag aside, and oil the bottom of a large baking dish with a bit of EVOO and one quarter stick of butter cut into 4 parts. Ever wish you would have paid more attention in math class? Put the dish into the oven to melt the butter. 

While the butter is doing it's thing, pop open another beer.

When the butter is melted, remove form the oven.

Place the chicken in the bag of flour (2 pieces at a time)

Shake, Shake, Shake. (The flour and the chicken, not your booty)

Put the two pieces into the pan and repeat until all the chicken is properly floured 

More fun stuff. Put the pan of chicken in the oven and walk away for thirty minutes.

You can have a beer, play with the dog, what ever you want to do. Just make sure you come back in thirty minutes.

When you get back, open the oven and TURN the chicken 180 degrees. For those of you educated in public schools, that means TURN THEM OVER. (just kidding, no calls please)

Cook for another 30 minutes. Find something to do. Idle hands and all that nonsense.

After thirty minutes, check the internal temperature of said poultry. It should be 165 degrees.

Remove from oven (I do this before checking the temperature.) Let it sit for a few minutes then place the chicken parts on a serving dish and cover with foil.

NOTE: The safe internal temperature for cooked chicken is 165° Fahrenheit (75° Celsius). A meat or instant-read thermometer is your best bet for determining the temperature of your chicken.

It's ready to serve, and you spent maybe 20 minutes, minus the cooking and beer drinking time.

I assume here that you side dishes are ready to serve (more on side dishes later in our program)

ENJOY !!!!