Oven Fried Chicken!!!

Wow! The kids will LOVE this! You can make it with the cheap leg quarters I keep telling you to buy. Here is what you do:

Cut up the leg quarters in 2 pieces, leg & thigh. It's not hard if you find the join. Then get a big baking pan and spray it with cooking spray and put a stick of butter or margarine in it. Turn the oven on to 425^ and put pan in the oven to let butter melt.

While that is melting, take a large bowl & put 1.5 cups of flour in it. Add 1 teaspoon salt, garlic salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper & 1.5 tablespoons paprika or creole seasoning. Mix it all up and coat 1 piece of chicken at a time. Leave the skin on. By this time your butter should be all melted.

Take pan out of oven with oven mits and place floured chicken skin side down in pan. Cook for about 20-25 minutes then take out of oven & turn over. Cook an additional 15 minutes on this side. Cooking time will be around 40 minutes.

You can even use the left over grease in the chicken pan to make great tasting gravy! Will give you the recipe for that next time.

Rosey~

Save Money Now!!

Now, more than ever, you have to find ways to save money! Recently 10 lb. bags of leg quarters were on sale for under $5 each. For a family of 4-5 you can get 2 to 3 meals a bag, big, filling meals!

So, we stock piled our stand up freezer with nothing but leg quarters. We went every day to the store and purchased 2 bags. That was the limit. Figured I could feed my family for a month for $60 or less! What else could you fix for that?

Chicken is so versitile. You can Barbeque it, roast it, broil it, fry it, grill it, even make chicken soup with it! Hope this helps! Rosey~

More Chicken Leg Quarter Recipes

Here are some more simple, yet amazing chicken recipes!

Try this Greek chicken recipe: spray your crock pot & put several whole pieces of leg quarters, skin and all in the pot. Then add olive oil, vinegar, garlic salt, a pinch of sugar, 4-5 bay leaves, a little oregano & a can of diced up tomatoes (if you don't have diced up, you can use whole & cut mash them up yourself or use tomato sauce or paste) you just want a hint of tomato taste! Scrub whole potatoes & quarter or eighth and put in the pot. You'll also be making Greek potatoes! Cook 6-8 hours in the crock pot or you can cook in the oven, slow roast at 275-300^ for 3 hours. It will be falling off the bone good! You can make a pot of rice and spoon the sauce over it.

On any of these recipes you can remove the skin. I'm not always crazy about the skin. So, on some of the pieces I will remove it and just have skinless chicken for me.

If you want it to look like more chicken, cut up the pieces into legs and thighs. They usually cook a little faster that way.

Try another recipe by just adding some jelly to the chicken. Orange marmelade is great or you could try peach. Just season with salt & pepper and add jelly on top then bake!

That's probably enough about leg quarters. But stay tuned to more crock pot & meat ideas!

Rosey~

Cooking Cheap with LEG QUARTERS

One of the best things I have found that is versitile & filling is fixing Leg Quarters. They can be purchased by the 10 lb. bag and freeze well. Usually I get 2 maybe 3 meals out of a bag. I try not to pay more than $6 per bag, usually only $4-$5. Walmart is a good place to find them cheap. You can bake, broil, fry, grill or even crock pot them.

Here are a few ideas: You can bake 1 hr.at 350^ or crock pot 6-8 hrs. the chicken with 1/2 bottle of italian dressing.

Most of the time I just use a little lemon juice, salt, pepper, & garlic salt.

You can always add barbeque sauce!

For Oven Fried chicken, cut into 2 pieces, take 1-2 cups flour, salt, pepper, garlic salt, & about 2 tablespoons paprika. Turn oven on 375^ spray a big baking pan, put in 1 stick margarine to melt while oven heats up (several minutes), then flour chicken place in pan skin side down. Cook 20-25 minutes, turn over & cook another 15 minutes. Your kids will love it! My boys favorite.

Rosey~