CHALLENGE #37: Everything Chicken with Roasted Garlic
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weekly_food_challengeThis is isn't really a recipe, since I have no method behind it. I just needed to meal prep for the coming week and had some bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts defrosting in the fridge. I took off the skin, cranked up the oven to 400 F (all the recipes online seem to require you go higher if you want roasted chicken, but I'm too much of a nervous nelly for that. I'm OK with it taking 30 minutes rather than 20!)
On a rimmed baking sheet that I covered with foil (for easier clean up), I plunked down the prepared chicken breasts and seasoned according to whim and whatever was closest to hand. Finish off with some oil of your choice. (I used canola since it was what I had on hand, and I worry about using EVOO at higher temps.) For the purposes of this challenge, what I picked was Trader Joe's Everything But the Bagel Seasoning, which I like to put into, well, everything. It's a combo of black sesame seeds, poppy seeds, sea salt, onion flakes and minced garlic but for me, I taste the garlic over everything else. It's like crunchy garlic seasoning, with other stuff. I love it. (Everything bagels doesn't make much of an impression on me -- I like my bagels either plain or encrusted with cheese, but that's neither here nor there.)
Along with the chicken, plunk down an head of garlic on to the foil (I put in the side and sort of crumpled the foil together so it stood upright) -- pour maybe a teaspoon of oil on top to help with the roasting.
Bake chicken and garlic until chicken temperature reads as 165 F-- it took approximately 35 minutes in my oven.
I usually make my lunch meal prep with a protein + vegetable. This week I have a bag of baby kale I'm looking to use up, so I'm probably going to have chicken salads this week.
On a rimmed baking sheet that I covered with foil (for easier clean up), I plunked down the prepared chicken breasts and seasoned according to whim and whatever was closest to hand. Finish off with some oil of your choice. (I used canola since it was what I had on hand, and I worry about using EVOO at higher temps.) For the purposes of this challenge, what I picked was Trader Joe's Everything But the Bagel Seasoning, which I like to put into, well, everything. It's a combo of black sesame seeds, poppy seeds, sea salt, onion flakes and minced garlic but for me, I taste the garlic over everything else. It's like crunchy garlic seasoning, with other stuff. I love it. (Everything bagels doesn't make much of an impression on me -- I like my bagels either plain or encrusted with cheese, but that's neither here nor there.)
Along with the chicken, plunk down an head of garlic on to the foil (I put in the side and sort of crumpled the foil together so it stood upright) -- pour maybe a teaspoon of oil on top to help with the roasting.
Bake chicken and garlic until chicken temperature reads as 165 F-- it took approximately 35 minutes in my oven.
I usually make my lunch meal prep with a protein + vegetable. This week I have a bag of baby kale I'm looking to use up, so I'm probably going to have chicken salads this week.