This has got to be one of the utterly easiest, and then most scrumptious, ways to prepare a chicken dinner that I know of, short of just going to a restaurant and letting someone else do it for you. I can’t remember how I learned of this, but I know it was decades ago and I’ve used it since.
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You can use any parts of a chicken for this, even cut up a whole one and select that which you prefer, but I’m a thigh guy (finger food, eh?), so that’s what I go with.
Ingredients:
- Package of chicken thighs; six or seven thighs will fit in the roasting bag. My others from the package I cook concurrently in a Pyrex dish for use later in a crockpot chicken casserole.
- McCormick Bag ‘N Season herbs and spices mix; includes cooking bag.
- Biscuits: I just use the ready-to-bake ones out of a cardboard tube. This is bachelor cooking.
- Can of mixed vegetables to round it all out. There ya go: bread, meat, veggies. That’s dinner.
Let’s get started. First, run a sink of clean and sudsy wash water. Even though there’s little to clean up as I go, I always like to have the hot soapy water handy to rinse my hands. When applying the spice mix to the chicken my hands get totally covered and need a quick and easy wash off. You’ll see.
Next, I trim all the excess skin off my chicken thighs. I then have a set of racks on the counter already set up, with paper towels under the racks to catch the spice mix that doesn’t stay on the chicken. Just a pre-cleanup trick. I rinse the trimmed thighs to clean them up and moisten them.
I open the package of spice mix and get the cooking bag out and opened into my Pyrex baking dish. Coat all the thighs on the rack with the spice mix, both sides. Put those that will fit into the bag, the others into the second baking dish. Photo sequence follows.
Oven is preheated; 375o. I cook for seventy minutes; comes out just right.
This chicken comes out from the bag hot and delicious; there is almost nothing to clean in the large Pyrex baking dish if you handle the bag carefully after letting it cool.
Bon appetit!