Super Easy Chicken Recipe

Cooking is not my specialty, so I'm always happy whenever I come across an easy yummy recipe. I blame my mom for my cooking skills -- she's such a great cook that I saw no need to learn. If everything she makes is so delicious, why should I bother cooking myself if I can just eat her food? This Tomato Basil Chicken recipe was sent to me by my mom, who knows what her daughter can and cannot do. Thanks mommy!


Tomato Basil Chicken

Fresh basil
1-2 Tomatoes
Garlic
Salt and Pepper
Olive Oil
3 Bone-in chicken thighs/legs with skin

1. Preheat oven 350 degrees F.
2. Cut up tomatoes into small wedges and spread around the bottom of oven-safe container (I use the 1.5 qt CorningWare Stoneware). Depending on how big your container is, you can put more or less tomatoes.
3. Toss in 4-6 cloves of garlic, skin on. As much or as little as you like.
4. Lay chicken on top of tomatoes and garlic. Add a pinch of salt and pepper and drizzle olive oil on chicken. Use the back of a spoon and smear olive oil evenly across chicken skin. 
5. Place a handful of fresh basil around chicken. 
6. Cook uncovered for 90 minutes. 

The fresh basil is from Elizabeth's garden. She was kind enough to give her mommy some of her precious basil. We can only have this dish every other week because we have to wait until her basil grows out.

This dish is so easy that you can literally just throw the ingredients in. You'll notice that I didn't really give any precise measurements for a lot of the ingredients.

Your chicken will come out delicious! The skin will be crispy and the meat juicy. The garlic will be creamy and the tomato flavourful. Your family will come immediately when you call out, "Dinner!" and your daughter will gobble up everything you put in front of her! Am I the only one with this fantasy? Grrr!