Busy Day Chicken 'n Gravy

Aren't they all busy days? But that's what this one is called. It's from The Everything Cookbook. It's the last one I have marked in here to try. Turns out when you use this cookbook in your 6th year of doing new recipe nights, you already know how to make a lot of what's in there.

Busy Day Chicken 'n Gravy
2 tbsp flour
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp pepper
4 bone-in chicken breast halves, or any 4 chicken pieces of your choice (I used 2 breasts, 2 thighs, and 2 drumsticks...I used the wings and neck [gross] that came with the chicken to make broth)
1 tbsp vegetable oil
4 oz frozen pearl onions (I used fresh peeled because I had a bunch left over from something a few weeks ago)
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can cream of onion soup (using these soups kind of goes the opposite from the direction I have been trying to head lately, but this one sounded so good, so, so what? It's okay once in a while, pretty sure)
1/2 tsp poultry seasoning

Preheat oven to 350. Mix together the flour, paprika, and pepper in large ziploc bag. Rinse the chicken and pat dry, then shake in the flour mixture. Heat oil in skillet over medium-high heat. Brown the chicken on both sides, about 10 minutes total (you might have to do this in batches, depending on how much chicken you have and how big your skillet is).


Place the chicken pieces in a deep-sided baking dish; they should fit snugly but without stacking (?? I think they mean overlapping). Sprinkle with the onions. Combine the soups and poultry seasoning and add to skillet, scraping to remove all bits. Pour over the chicken. Cover and bake for 1 to 1 1/4 hours or until the larger pieces are no longer pink in the center (use a meat thermometer to 170 for breast meat and 180 for dark meat). The chicken makes a gravy-type sauce as it bakes. Serve with mashed potatoes if desired (we did).

This was quite good. It smelled great, everybody ate it, and there was some leftover for Steve's lunch. Overall, pretty good and easy. But not healthy. At all. But sometimes you don't want that anyway, right??