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ar ([personal profile] ar) wrote in [community profile] boilingwater2010-05-16 02:42 pm

ideas for chicken thigh recipes?

Hi everyone! I'm new to this comm, and I've got a question. I need to make something for dinner tonight, and I have no idea what--except that I've got six chicken thighs (about 2 pounds) of chicken thighs in my freezer, and I'd really like to try cooking them.

I've never worked with chicken thighs before, only breasts, so I don't even know where to begin. They're not deboned, nor probably deskinned (I can't recall, off the top of my head), and while I can remove the bones and skin, I'd rather not go to all that work today. Does anyone have a reasonably easy (I'm feeling pretty lazy today), flavourful recipe they could recommend? I'd appreciate it so much. ♥
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[personal profile] onyxlynx 2010-05-16 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
(Edited to remove Grandma's soup recipe, which was not what you wanted.) A reasonably easy thing to do involves preheating your oven to 350 or 375 degrees, rinsing the thighs, inserting a half-clove of garlic under the skin, rubbing each thigh with olive oil (OK, vegetable oil. I just like olive oil). putting them into a roasting pan, putting that in the oven, and baking around 45-60 minutes. Approximately. (Start checking after 40 minutes; sometime they cook quickly, sometimes they stubbornly refuse to be cooked unless totally dehydrated.)

Bon appetit!