Garlic Baked Chicken (picture montage included)

So Carson and his chicken got me to thinking...






So I bought some chicken thighs, locally grown, fresh, never frozen. $1.29 a # for bone in, I got a little over 2#. Sitting next to my Cuisinart 11 cup food processor, and J.A. Henckels 8" Chef's knife.


I wanted to get practice boning thighs, and I am going to be getting a nice boning knife soon, but the Henckels was adequate, but a little too big for the job. They came out alright.


Then I combined some olive oil and about 6 cloves of garlic and warmed them to meld the flavor. I inherited this pot, it's seen much better days.


I moved the oil and garlic to one bowl, and combined about 1/3 a cup of Panko bread crumbs, 1/3 cup regular bread crumbs, 1/4 cup of grated Parmesan cheese, a little fresh cracked pepper, and I have an all purpose Italian seasoning grinder that I added a bit of, and put them in a seperate bowl. More later on this.


I dipped in the oil/garlic, then dredged in the dry ingredients that I whisked together to combine. The recipe called for a baking dish, but I left that at my mom's house when I made lasagna so I used Old Trusty. My Lodge cast iron skillet.


Baked them at 425 for 35 minutes in a preheated oven. They came out like this.





They were cooked through, and the bottoms were actually nicely browned due to the cast iron.





All in all these were actually really good and super easy. I will use cayenne pepper, and other things to give more heat and flavor, but there were easy, fun, and delicious.

Also as a side note, they are pretty healthy. EVOO is a good fat, and the bread crumbs have hardly anything in them. The Parmesan is the worst thing in there, and that can be omitted.


Flame away!