Mutti's Chicken & Gravy

Yields: 6

Components

  • Mutti’s Chicken
  • Mutti’s Gravy

Directions

  • Cook Chicken
  • Prepare Gravy
  • Prepare Mashed Potatoes
↓ This is a component-based recipe (fancy talk for making the dish in pieces, then assembling). ↓

Mutti's Chicken

Ingredients

  • Defrosted whole chicken 1
  • Salt & Pepper to cover chicken
  • Butter, separated into small cubes 1 stick
  • Flour to cover chicken
  • Garlic Powder to cover chicken

Steps

  • Remove giblets and set aside
  • Rinse chicken and place in roasting pan or glass casserole dish
  • Add giblets to pan/dish
  • Put flour into a shaker if possible
  • Salt and heavily pepper chicken. We like lots of pepper.
  • Add lots of garlic powder
  • Then shake or sprinkle chicken with enough flour to make a nice crust.
  • Cut 1 cube butter into small chunks
  • Dot chicken all over with butter
  • Bake in 350 degree oven until brown
  • During cooking process ladle juices over top of chicken

Mutti's Gravy

Ingredients

  • Mushroom soup 1 can
  • Bits from cooked chicken
  • Cornstarch 2 Tbsp

Steps

  • In saucepan add 1 can mushroom soup.
  • Remove chicken to platter.
  • Add 1" hot water to cooking pan.
  • Scrape up bits from pan and pour into soup pan.
  • Wisk and heat until bubbly.
  • To thicken add 2 Tbsp cornstarch to 1/4 cup water and mix well with fork.
  • Add cornstarch slurry to hot gravy, whisk until thick. Serve hot.

Category: Dinner

Cuisine: American

Tags: Family • Poultry