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My Mother's Cooking - Baked Chicken Legs and Chicken Breasts with Honey-Mustard Glaze
Baked Chicken Legs and Breasts
My Mother's Cooking
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TWO EASY CHICKEN RECIPES
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Strictly speaking, these are not my mother’s recipes but instead they come from my wife who loves to eat but considers cooking to be a necessary evil. She prefers recipes where you put everything together, stick the meal in the oven and then come back an hour later when it is done. These two recipes fall into that category.
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The first one is for baked chicken legs and the second one is for baked chicken breasts with honey-mustard glaze. For either recipe, you can also serve oven-baked redskin potatoes, which you can cook in the oven at the same time.
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Oven Baked Chicken Legs
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Difficulty:
Easy
Preparation Time:
15 Minutes
Cooking Time:
45 Minutes
Cooking Temperature:
325 F
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Ingredients:
6-8 Chicken Drumsticks
¼Cup Butter
1 Teaspoons Salt
1 Teaspoons Garlic Powder (not Garlic Salt)
Hungarian Sweet Paprika
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Preparation:
- Spray a baking dish with PAM and arrange the legs evenly with the fat side up.
- Melt the butter in the a microwave or in the oven and coat the legs with it using a pastry brush
- Sprinkle the legs in order with salt, garlic powder and paprika.
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Cooking Instruction:
- Place the legs in a preheated 325 F oven and bake approximately 45 minutes depending on the size of the legs.
- You can check if the legs are done by poking the largest one with a fork. The fork should penetrate easily and the legs should be a golden brown color
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Baked Chicken Breasts with Honey-Mustard Glaze
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Difficulty:
Easy
Preparation Time:
15 Minutes
Cooking Time:
60 Minutes
Cooking Temperature:
400 F
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Ingredients:
6 Split Chicken Breasts with the Bones and Skin left on
1 Large Onion peeled and sliced ¼ in. thick
1/2 Cup of Ken’s Steakhouse Honey-Mustard Dressing or equivalent
1 Teaspoons Salt
1 Teaspoons Garlic Powder (not Garlic Salt)
Black Pepper to taste
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Preparation:
- Sprinkle the chicken breasts on all sides with salt and garlic powder.
- Spray a baking dish with PAM and arrange the onion slices evenly over the bottom and sprinkle them with salt and pepper.
- Arrange the chicken breasts on top of the onions and place the pan in a 400 F preheated oven.
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Cooking Instruction:
- Bake for about 45 minutes until the skin is browned and almost crisp.
- Coat the surfaces evenly with honey-mustard sauce and continue baking for 15-20 minutes until the chicken skins crisp and the meat is done.
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Roasted Baby Redskin Potatoes
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Difficulty:
Easy
Preparation Time:
15 Minutes
Cooking Time:
20-30 Minutes
Cooking Temperature:
325-400 F
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Ingredients:
8-10 Baby Redskin Potatoes 1-2 inches in diameter
¼ cup Melted Butter
1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder
1 Teaspoons Salt
1 Teaspoon Parsley Flakes
1 Teaspoon Dried Onion Flakes
Black Pepper to taste
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Preparation:
- Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise and place them in an oiled baking pan with the cut side up.
- Brush the surface of each potato with melted butter.
- Sprinkle each half with salt, garlic powder, pepper, parsley flakes and onion flakes.
Cooking Instruction:
- Bake 15 minutes at 400 F or 20 minutes at 325 F.
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Serving Suggestions:
Either chicken recipe goes well with the roasted redskin potatoes. We generally ate them with asparagus, broccoli or even with frozen green beans or peas.
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Baked Chicken Breasts
Oven Roasted Potatoes
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