Ingredients For Braised Chicken Thighs
- Chicken Thighs
- Olive Oil
- Carrots
- Onion
- Garlic
- Flour
- Cider vinegar
- Dried thyme
- Chicken stock
- Salt and pepper
- Butter
How To Make This Recipe
- Preheat oven to 350°
- In a large enameled cast-iron pot, heat olive oil. Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper then sear in pot. Cook over moderately high heat, in batches until golden brown.
- Add carrots, garlic and onion, cook over low heat until tender. Pour in flour and stir. Continue stirring as you add in cider vinegar, scraping up any browned bits from bottom of the pot. Bring sauce to a boil and cook until thickened.
- Add broth, thyme and season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Nestle the chicken in sauce, skin side up. Transfer pot to oven and braise chicken until cooked through. Remove pot from oven and preheat to broil. Transfer chicken to a baking sheet, skin side up. Broil on middle rack of the oven until skin is golden and crisp.
- Continue to cook down sauce until it’s thickened and there is half as much liquid. Stir in butter and season with salt and pepper. Return the chicken to the casserole, skin side up, and serve.
How to Serve Braised Chicken Thighs
This recipe is great for feeding loved ones, so I like to serve it family style, right out of a casserole dish on the table. After the Chicken thighs come out of the oven, I transfer then to a casserole dish and drizzle the sauce on top.
You can pair these Chicken Thighs with all kinds of different side dishes but here are a couple of my favorites…
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People Often Ask…
Braising is a cooking technique in which the main ingredient is seared, or browned in fat, and then simmered in liquid on low heat in a covered pot. A big benefit of this cooking method is that the meat tastes great and you also get delicious broth, sauce or gravy. It’s one-pot cooking at it’s finest. Also at the end of the meal, there isn’t much to cleaning up and anything leftover can be reheated or frozen.
Ingredients
- 4 chicken leg quarters
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 5 – 6 carrots – roughly chopped
- 1 onion – chopped
- 5 cloves garlic – sliced
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 cup cider vinegar
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme
- 3 cups chicken stock
- salt and pepper
- 3 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- In a large enameled cast-iron pot, heat olive oil.
- Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper and add to pot, skin side down.
- Cook over moderately high heat, in batches, turning once, until golden brown, about 12 minutes.
- Spoon off all but 2 tablespoons of fat in pot.
- Add carrots, garlic and onion – cook over low heat until tender – 5 minutes.
- Add flour and stir for 1 minute.
- Add cider vinegar and stir, scraping up any browned bits from bottom of the pot. Bring sauce to a boil and cook until thickened, 3 minutes.
- Add broth, thyme and season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil.
- Nestle the chicken in sauce, skin side up. Transfer pot to oven and braise chicken for about 50 minutes, until cooked through.
- Remove pot from oven and preheat to broil.
- Transfer chicken to a baking sheet, skin side up. Broil on middle rack of the oven until skin is golden and crisp, about 5 minutes.
- Simmer sauce over moderate heat until reduced to about ½ – 10 to 15 minutes.
- Stir in butter and season with salt and pepper.
- Return the chicken to the casserole, skin side up, and serve.
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Just make this for supper. Delish. Thank you!
Thank you so much for stopping by and you kind words. I am glowing!! Wishing you a great Thanksgiving…xo,~Donya
Will be making this dish soon. Also thinking of adding some sliced shrooms. Ya think?
Hello, made this for tonights dinner. I did add celery and taters and moved to a crockpot instead of oven . Its 95* here didn't want to heat the house up. Being a fellow southerner you understand that.. Followed another commenter and added egg noodles over rice-fiancé prefers egg noodles. Smells amazing and looks so yummy!! Thanks for this post, Looking forward to dunking homemade French bread in the yummy goo!!!!
Just found this recipe via pinterest and can not wait to make it for my family tonight. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks so much! I hope you'll let me know how your family likes it. xo,~Donya
I have made this twice already, its perfectly delicious!
I am so happy to hear this! Please let me know how to follow up with your "anonymous"…I want to keep in touch.xo,~Donya
I'm going to pin this and make it very soon. Need some good chicken recipes, and this will sure satisfy a hungry meal. Looks delish! Thanks~
Thanks Tracy! I hope you make this and will let me know what you think. Have a great week…xo,~Donya
I happened across this recipe on Pinterest and I knew instantly this was going to be dinner tonight! After reading through the recipe, I can almost smell it cooking! Thanks for sharing your recipe!! 🙂
You are so welcome! Hope you'll stop back by with your name so we can keep in touch!xo,~Donya
Just made this tonight and really loved it! I after the sauce reduced some, I tossed in instant rice to soak in all of that goodness! Made an amazing meal! Thanks again for sharing 😀
Thanks friend! I love your idea of putting in the rice, very smart! Thanks for sharing your kind words and I hope you'll keep hanging out with me.xo,~Donya
I am making it now. Looks great.
Oh my gosh – that looks FANTASTIC!!! Must pin this and make it later. This will taste so good in this deep freeze. Thank you 🙂
Thanks so much! Hope you visit again and let me know who you are so we can catch up!~Donya