Sunday, August 30, 2009

Home-Style Chicken Dinner

Prep Time: 30 Minutes
Start to Finish: 1 Hour 20 Minutes
Servings: 4

2 teaspoons dried basil leaves
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
1 teaspoon garlic pepper blend
2 teaspoons olive or vegetable oil
3 to 3 1/2 lb cut-up broiler fryer chicken, skin removed if desired
6 small unpeeled red potatoes, cut into fourths (2 cups)
2 medium dark-orange sweet potatoes, peeled, cut into 1-inch pieces (3 cups)
1 medium green bell pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces (1 cup)
3 roma (plum) tomatoes, cut into fourths




1. Heat oven to 400*F. Spray 13x9-inch (3 quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. In large bowl, mix basil, seasoned salt, garlic pepper and oil. Brush about half of the mixture on chicken. Add remaining ingredients to bowl; toss to coat.

2. Place vegetables in baking dish. Place chicken on vegetables. Brush with any remaining oil mixture.

3. Bake uncovered 45 to 50 minutes or until vegetables are tender and juice of chicken is no longer pink when centers of thickest pieces are cut. Serve with pan juices.



*From Betty Crocker Most Requested Recipes

We invited Alex over for dinner for this meal and it turned out pretty good! I didn't get the veggies cooked through as much as I would have liked but it worked out ok. I didn't have garlic pepper blend and so I used garlic powder and coarse pepper like suggested and it worked fine as well! It didn't take a lot of time to put this together and I cleaned up my kitchen mess while I waited and even had left over time to tidy up the rest of the kitchen. So, for you Mom's out there, that means you have time to chase down kids and make them clean up before dinner ;) If any of you try this recipe, let me know what you think!!

X's and O's,
Brandi Sue

2 comments:

! Nick ! said...

Oh my! I just got around to checking my RSS reader and saw your 3 cooking posts! I am soo hungry now! They all look so good!!! GJ! Heather and I did somthing similar, but instead of a cook book we used my Mom's wedding present to us. She made a family history cook book with recipes from not only her, but my grandparents and aunts, friends and just good home cookin stuff... the trick is to keep doing it, it gets really hard to cook when both of you are really busy!

Brandi Sue said...

Hey Nick! Your mom's gift was perfect! That would be so neat to have and something you can cherish and pass down! Yeah, I've slacked off on the "cooking from the book" here lately...just been playing it safe with meals we know or fast food because of other things going on!