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Hello, everyone. This is Stephanie Manley, and I want to show you how to
roast chicken leg quarters. They're wonderful, they're inexpensive, and
they taste really, really good. So I've basically cleaned out my
refrigerator, and now I'm going to roast these leg quarters. Now I'm
putting in radishes in here. Now maybe you haven't cooked radishes before,
but you know what? They taste fantastic. They taste like radishes, but
cooked, and they are browned and wonderful.
And now I'm also putting in here some baby carrots that I recently got from
the farmer's market. I'm not going to peel these. They're nice and tiny,
and they'll be just fine. And then I'm going to cut up about a pound of
small red potatoes. I'm going to cut them into bite-size pieces and go
ahead and toss them in here. What am I going to do next? I'm going to add a
massive quantity of garlic to this because I want to prevent all the
vampires I can from stopping at my house.
Then I'm going to chop up some shallots. Now if you don't have shallots,
onions work really, really well, too. Now if I was using onions, I would do
those in a slightly larger dice. I love the way onions turn when they get
all nice and roasted. Then I'm going to pour in enough oil to kind of cover
everything up. Then I'm going to add a sprig of rosemary; this is optional.
Salt and pepper. We're just going to give this a nice stir. And then I'm
going to take a couple of lemons. I'm first going to zest those. Then I'm
going to cut them in half. I'm going to juice them, and I'm going to put
both of the halves of lemon into this mixture. I just love the way lemon
brings out all sorts of flavors.
Now I'm going to put these into a baking dish. Preheat your oven to about
425 degrees, and we're going to bake these. The larger the dish, the better
this is because it gives the chance for all the vegetables to become
roasted, nice and brown. For the first step for this, we really just want
the veggies to kind of cook up, so we're going to put foil on here for the
first 35 minutes or so. We're going to remove the foil. Then we're going to
add our cut up chicken pieces. I always love to cut up leg quarters myself.
It's really easy to do, and you can save a couple of pennies doing that.
And who doesn't like to save money?
Now I've just kind of put a little bit of butter over my chicken and salt
and pepper to give it a little bit of flavor. Then I'm going to put this
back into the oven for about 35 to 40 minutes or until the chicken's done.
How do you know when chicken's done? When you pierce it and the juices come
out clear. There you go. There are some delicious roasted chicken thighs.
So be sure to try this one out. And always, be sure to rate, comment, and
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