Anitas Wonderfully Easy Chicken Recipes

Steps:

• The chicken: Heat a dry skillet on high for 1 minute, then add the oil. Season chicken with salt and pepper on both sides and add to the pan. Brown chicken, about 2-3 minutes per side, reducing heat to medium after 1 minute. Remove and pour out any dark oil.
• The sauce: To the same skillet, add more oil and sweat the onions, 3-5 minutes (add more olive oil as needed). Add garlic, thyme, and bay leaf, followed by white wine. Reduce white wine until almost dry, then add tomatoes, season with salt and pepper, and toss. Add the chicken back to the pan, along with the olives. Cook 10 minutes, occasionally moving the sauce around until it thickens. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Assembly: Spoon the sauce onto a serving platter. Remove the bay leaf and thyme. Add fresh oregano followed by chicken.

Steps:

• Roll the chicken breasts in the bread crumbs and place in a pyrex baking pan, being sure they fit without overlapping. Cover each breast with a slice of Swiss cheese. Sprinkle mushrooms over, if used.
• Mix together the wine and cream of mushroom soup and pour over all.
• Bake 50 minutes in a preheated 350 degree F. oven.

Steps:

• In large Dutch oven or kettle, combine chicken, bouillon cubes, butter, celery, onion, carrots, parsley, poultry season, rosemary, salt, pepper; cover with water and bring to a boil. Turn down temperature and cook on low until chicken and vegetables are tender. (approximately 1 hour) Remove chicken breasts, cool, and cut up in bite size pieces and return to vegetable broth mixture in kettle.
• --- BISQUICK DUMPLINGS ---
• 2 cups Bisquick baking mix
• 1/8 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/8 teaspoon poultry seasoning
• 1 dash ground nutmeg
• 1 tablespoon dried or fresh parsley -- minced
• 2/3 cup milk
• For dumplings, combine bisquick mix, thyme, black pepper, nutmeg, poultry seasoning, parsley; stir in milk just until moistened.
• I usually double the dumpling recipe because we like lots of dumplings and a thicker gravy.
• Drop by tablespoonfuls onto the boiling broth. Cook uncovered, for 10 minutes; cover and cook 10-15 minutes longer.