Chicken Supreme With Gravy Food

CHICKEN SUPREME

Steps:

• Bring the chicken to room temperature. Lay out on your cutting board and pat dry.

GRANDMA CHICKEN (CHICKEN AND GRAVY)

Steps:

• Combine flour and pepper in a ziplock bag.
• Cut chicken into bite sized pieces and add to flour mixture.
• After all chicken is in the bag, close bag and shake to coat chicken pieces.
• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium low heat.
• Slowly brown both sides of chicken in the melted butter. Note: If your skillet isn't large enough, you can do this in batches, it may require additional butter.
• Remove chicken and set aside in a baking dish.
• Cook onion in same pan until soft (if using onion powder, skip this step).
• Add a small amount (approximately 2-3 tablespoons) of the flour/pepper mixture to the water.
• Mix well.
• Pour water and flour mixture slowly into the pan.
• Add chicken broth and thyme (if using onion powder, add it now) and bring to a simmer. Stir often to make a thickish gravy.
• Return browned chicken pieces to the pan.
• Reduce heat to low and cover. Simmer for 30 minutes, stirring periodically.
• Transfer chicken and gravy into baking dish. I use a 2.8 liter Corning Ware dish, but a 9x13 dish will work as well.
• Cover and bake at 375 for 30 minutes.
• Note: This dish freezes beautifully. After cooking for the first 30 minutes, cool, place in a freezer bag. When you are ready to cook, defrost and cook, covered at 375 for 45-60 minutes or until hot and bubbly.

EASY CHICKEN SUPREME (CHICKEN WITH STUFFING)

Steps:

• Prepare stuffing as directed.
• Best if stuffing is leftover or made 1 day in advance.
• Spray an 8 x 8-inch pan or casserole dish with non-stick spray.
• Place breasts in pan.
• Place 1 slice of cheese over top of each breast.
• Spread soup undiluted over top of cheese.
• Layer stuffing over soup.
• Bake at 350°F for 1 hour until bubbly and stuffing is golden.

OVEN CHICKEN WITH DRIED BEEF GRAVY

Steps:

• Spray 2-quart glass casserole baking disk with non-stick cooking spray.
• Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
• Mix soup, sour cream and milk together in a large bowl.
• Set aside.
• The dried beef comes rolled inside of a glass jar.
• Leave it rolled up and cut into thin slices, then cut slices in half.
• Lay dried beef in the bottom of the prepared casserole.
• Place chicken on top in single layer.
• Pour soup mixture over chicken, being sure to cover the top of the chicken, even if some of mixture runs back into pan.
• Bake uncovered for 1-1/2 hours.
• Remove from oven and scrape the sauce from the sides of the casserole and mix it with the unbrowned sauce, spreading some sauce over the chicken.
• Return casserole to the oven and cook an additional 60-90 minutes, until sauce around chicken has browned slightly and is consistency of gravy.
• Serve chicken and gravy over cooked rice or pasta.
• To garnish, microwave peas 30 seconds; sprinkle over the chicken and rice/or pasta.
• NOTE: If sauce thickens too much before chicken has cooked at least 2-1/2 hours, add 1/4 cup water.
• Stir into gravy and continue cooking.
• NOTE: For Real gravy-lovers, double the soup, sour cream and milk so you'll be sure to have enough!
• This gravy is also delicious served over biscuits.