OVEN CHICKEN WITH GRAVY
- 6 bone-in chicken thighs (other cuts may be used)
- ¼ cup oil
- 1 cup flour
- 2 tablespoons garlic powder, divided
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups chicken broth
- ½ cup milk
Combine flour, 1 tablespoon garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt, and pepper. Set aside 2 tablespoons. Dredge chicken pieces in flour mixture. Heat oil and brown both sides of chicken in an oven safe pan. A deep cast iron pan is ideal. Remove chicken from pan. Add onion to hot pan and stir until tender—about 3 minutes. Add thyme, 1 tablespoon garlic powder, and butter, stirring to melt butter. Add reserve flour mixture and cook while stirring for 2 minutes. Add chicken stock slowly and stir well to prevent lumping. Add milk and continue stirring. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Continue cooking until the mixture begins to boil and thicken slightly. At that point place the chicken pieces back in gravy (transferring to a baking dish works well if your pan is too small), cover, put in oven and bake at 400 degrees for an hour.
TIP: Serve over rice or mashed potatoes.
TP
—Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food written by Jim Casada and Tipper Pressley
This recipe takes a little prep work but the result is well worth it. I love to cook it for supper on cold nights. Serve the chicken over a bed of rice or mashed potatoes and you have some real hearty comfort food.
I enjoyed meeting people who came out to the Historic Ramsey House over the weekend. It was a real pleasure to talk with everyone who got to come. And the folks there couldn’t have been nicer. If you ever get the chance to visit them you’ll be glad you did.
You can find our cookbook here.
Last night’s video: The Last Harvest before Frost & the Last Popsicle of the Year.
Tipper
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Your recipe looks and sounds delicious. I can’t wait to try it. Take care!
That sounds delicious!!!
Love & prayers for all !!!
There’s nothing like comfort food and gravy on pretty much anything is always good eating. I have made your tomato gravy often since you shared in one of your recent videos. Chicken is also a good ‘go to’ for me over any other options, other than when growing up and my Dad would get a deer. May your week ahead be full of sweet blessings as you continue to celebrate Appalachia.
Wow. That looks great. If I didn’t live 950 miles away, I would stop by for a helping and even bring my own plate.
Sorry I missed your event at Ramsey House. I just could not get my nerve up to drive all the way through Knoxville on a big football weekend. Come back to East Tennessee when you have a chance.
Gary I would love to come back 🙂
Turned out to be REALLY BIG football weekend!
I think the tide turned. 🙂
That looks really good. Makes your mouth water. lol
It is cooling down here in sunny California and that chicken dish sounds so yummy and warming to the tummy. Thanks for sharing, Tipper.
It was so nice to meet you again and talk a little. I had planned all I wanted to say, but my mind went blank when it was my turn. Hopefully, if I’m blessed to meet you again, I won’t be so scattered brain. Thank you for sharing bits of your daily life with us!
Charman-thank you both for coming. We just loved seeing you again 🙂
Good morning! The chicken recipe served over rice is a delicious meal. You’re right about the prep work being well worth it.
Although I was a little late getting to the Ramsey House Saturday, it was great to see you again. Also an added bonus to meet Matt and talk about the Rogue hoe! I’m sorry Jim couldn’t make it!
According to the weather map, we’ve got a beautiful week to enjoy being outside!!
Brenda-glad you made it! I enjoyed seeing you again 🙂
I love baked chicken but not with gravy. I don’t like chicken gravy. I know I’m strange but that’s how it’s always been. Even as a child I didn’t like chicken and dumplings and my mother, they say, made the best. We had chickens and she made many chicken dishes. I love fried chicken. I enjoyed the video last evening of you and Matt gleaning the last of your garden. It’s always sad to put away your garden for the season, but always exciting to plan, plant and grow a new one next year.
So ready for those comfy meals with a fire in the stove. Y’all have a wonderful week. Please pray for rain we are suffering.
Oh my goodness! I could just smell and taste that chicken and gravy. Haven’t had that in years. My mom used to prepare meatballs that way too. Both are so good on chilly fall or winter evening.
I really enjoyed last evenings tour of your garden cleanup! Your garden did well considering how dry it was! I am praying for all from the hurricanes and floods and wildfire victims. My heart is with them. God bless you and yours❤❤
Ruth, you mentioned it being dry, this summer and now fall has been the driest I can remember in my lifetime. The summer months from May to September were not only dry but hot. This week will be four weeks since Helene came through and there has not been one drop of rain. The forecast for the next 10 days is for around a 5% chance of rain. The temperatures have been very pleasant during the last month. While this is a hardship for the farmers trying to plant their grain and their pastures if they have livestock, it is a blessing for the victims of the hurricane that lost their homes or had them heavily damaged. My church took up a money collection yesterday to send to NC.