Chicken legs are one of the cheapest cuts of meat you can buy. I have found them for as low as 59 cents a pound. If you usually shy away from dark meat because you think it is less healthy, now is the time to change! I even heard Dr. Oz say that this is a fallacy and white meat has no greater health benefits. In fact, dark meat may help lower your cholesterol. It also has more iron, plus I think it is tastier. This recipe takes minutes to prepare and is a perfectly warm dinner for a chilly evening. The original recipe is from the More with Less cookbook, but I found it on Whole Eat & Whole Treats.
Honey Baked Chicken
4 chicken leg quarters
1/3 cup honey
2 T melted butter
1 T prepared mustard
1.5 t curry powder
1 t salt
Place the chicken in a casserole dish. Mix the remaining ingredients and pour over the chicken. Bake at 350 for about an hour and a half, basting 3 or 4 times with the pan juices.
This chicken is delicious with brown rice. If you have a hard time cooking rice on the stovetop, try baking in the oven following the recipe below. It always turns out perfectly. The chicken would probably also be great with mashed potatoes, spooning some of the sauce over the top.
Baked Brown Rice
1.5 cups brown rice
2.5 cups water
2 t butter
1 t salt
Put everything in an 8 inch casserole dish and cover tightly with foil. Baked at 350 for an hour to an hour and a half.
Plus chicken on the bone is supposed to be more flavorful.
ReplyDeleteYou can bake rice in the oven? Cool! I had no idea and I kind of stink at cooking rice.
ReplyDeleteWe just had this for dinner today and it was super tasty. We both liked it. I didn't make the rice in the oven, but just because we didn't have foil. I will make this again.
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