Not Q, but a great recipe...pics

[Sax]

A little something different today. I thought I’d share a recipe that is to me, bar none, the best chicken dish I’ve ever tasted. You need four skin on, bone in, chicken breasts. We discovered this recipe while looking for a great chicken & dumplings recipe, but we liked the flavor so much we just make it as a chicken dish.

Cathy & Jerry’s Sage Chicken

Ingredients:
4 chicken breasts
2 large onions
8 cloves garlic
1 lemon
Package of fresh sage (whole leaves, NOT dried or ground)
Poultry seasoning (don’t scrimp on this part…you want the kind with loose leaves”Spice Hunter” is a good brand if you can find it)
1 stick of butter
Kosher salt
Coarse ground pepper
12 x 10 disposable baking pan ( casserole dish will work but you have to wash it! )

Preparing the aromatics:
Cut onions is 1\4 inch slices. No need to remove skins. Line the bottom of the pan with slices. Mash the garlic cloves with the back of a knife. Again, no need to remove skins. Add to pan. Slice lemon and add to pan. Add 1\2 stick of butter in slices to pan. Add generous amounts of salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning to pan.



Preparing chicken:

Cut 8 1\4 slices of butter and lay out on chopping board. Place 2 sage leaves on each pat of butter.




Rinse chicken breasts and pat dry with paper towel.With your finger, on the small side of the breast, work your finger under the skin and separate it from the meat. You want it to stay attached around the outside. This is an important part of it. Now slide 2 pats of sage & butter under the skin of each breast.



Add remaining sage…leaves, stems, and everything to aromatics. Arrange the breasts, bone side down, on top of the aromatics. Liberally apply salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning to breasts. Use lots!



Bake at 375 degrees for 90 minutes. Serve chicken…discard aromatics. Serve with yellow saffron rice and some kind of crusty bread. You won’t believe how good this makes your kitchen smell, or how great it tastes. You can even make it early in the day, cover it, put it in the frig, and pop it in the oven right before dinner.


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[Mike Lawry]

Looks awesome, I see no reason not to do that same recipe in the smoker as well.



Mike Lawry

[PDXsmoker]

Yeah looks great! I am going to have to try this and I agree, smoker or bar-b-q should work well also!

[PDXsmoker]

Just finished cooking and eating this chicken, MMmmm Came out great! I put it in an old skillet and cooked the whole thing on my Treager. Thanks again for this recipe!