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Easy Cast Iron Browned Chicken

Make plenty – this chicken is awesome cold or hot! This recipe serves 8.

Set aside half of the fried chicken for Chicken Cacciatore.

Serve remaining chicken as a main dish with your favorite sides – rice, potatoes, vegetables, salad, etc.

Easy Cast Iron Browned Chicken

Author
Dori Fritzinger

Ingredients

  • 4 – 6 pounds of bone-in cut up chicken breast and legs – I buy them already butchered but you can do it yourself
  • Salt and Pepper
  • ½ cup canola, peanut or vegetable oil – you may need to add more depending on how many servings you are making

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 450° F. Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper on both sides. Heat a large cast iron skillet with oil over medium heat
  2.  Very carefully place chicken in hot oil – skin side down in the pan.
  3. Cook 5 – 8 minutes or until a crispy crust forms.
  4. Make sure it doesn’t burn!
  5. Place browned chicken in oven and bake 15 to 20 minutes.
  6. Pierce chicken with a fork in the thickest spot of the chicken pieces – if juices run clear, chicken is done.
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Dori Fritzinger

Dori Fritzinger

She lives and works with her multi-generational family in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. They have a farm of cows and calves, wool sheep, dairy goats, rabbits, ducks, geese, chickens, honeybees, a horse and a donkey.

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