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Crispy Lickin’ Chicken

This chicken is super crispy, with the perfect amount of finger-lickin’ greasiness, but it’s also a little reminiscent of jerky in its chewiness. This recipe is found in the "Oven-Baked or Roasted Meats" section of our Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook. This is a family-size recipe that will serve 6 to 8 people with plenty of leftovers to use in quick meals for later in the week.

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This chicken is super crispy, with the perfect amount of finger-lickin’ greasiness, but it’s also a little reminiscent of jerky in its chewiness. This recipe is found in the "Oven-Baked or Roasted Meats" section of our Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook. This is a family-size recipe that will serve 6 to 8 people with plenty of leftovers to use in quick meals for later in the week.

Ingredients
  • 7 lbs chicken (thigh and drumsticks)
  • 2 tsp creole seasoning
  • 2 tsp TH Mineral Salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 3/4 tsp garlic powder
  • 3 Tbs TH Nutritional Yeast
  • 3 Tbs hot sauce
  • 3 Tbs Parmesan cheese (finely grated)
  • 2 Tbs liquid smoke
  • 3 tsp paprika
  • 2 tsp onion powder
Instructions
  1. 1
    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. 2
    Place the frozen chicken quarters on 2 large baking pans. Sprinkle the Creole seasoning on the chicken and bake for 1 hour. Baste the chicken with the juices that pool in the bottoms of the pans every so often about four times during the first hour.
  3. 3
    Remove the pans and drain off the juice (you can save this yummy juice to make a gravy, if desired). Sprinkle the chicken with all the remaining seasonings and cheese, making sure to distribute them evenly. Return the pans to the oven, lower the heat to 200°F, and continue to roast the chicken for a few more hours. Delish!
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Recipe Notes

From page 163, Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook:

"This bone-in, skin-on recipe is super high in the amino acid glycine that your body needs. Boy, oh boy, what a yummy way this is to get your glycine in! If you opened this book and did what we call the "flick trick" to any random page and this is the first recipe you might think, “Ho hum, a crispy chicken recipe.  Looks nice.” You wouldn't realize our fervent desire for you to eat more glycine-rich foods. That subject is discussed in full in Trim Healthy Mama Plan, so consider this a shameless plug to get you to read that.

This chicken is super crispy, with the perfect amount of finger-lickin’ greasiness, but it’s also a little reminiscent of jerky in its chewiness. Don't be put off by the time it takes to bake.  It isn't hard laborious time. You don’t even have to thaw the chicken.  It starts frozen, so we suggest you begin cooking by mid-afternoon. The only work you do is a bit of sprinkling of spices, a little bit of basting and then some generating of patience while you smell the deliciousness wafting from your oven.

Unless you have a small family and want to halve this recipe, make the full amount. It's extra delicious cold as leftovers.  Just chill it, uncovered, in the fridge. There's something about that delicious savory chewiness that is so satisfying to gnaw on when the munchies hit."

Read it online: https://trimhealthymama.com/recipe/crispy-lickin-chicken/