I recently made 2 different, very easy dishes for 2 days with only 1 pot. Blasphemy! Impossible! But how? The first day I made a Chicken and 40 Cloves. The left over was able to be transformed into a Smothered Chicken on the next day. This post is on the Chicken and 40 Cloves. 

Both dishes were amazing. The first only took about 5-10 minutes to prepare and then for 90 minutes cooking at 350F. I’m not sure why, but some of the garlic didn’t cook all the way. The chicken was fully cooked and succulent, and the potatoes were nice and tender. I’m going to have to make this again sometime soon. 

First I cut up some onion and made a bed for the chicken and garlic to rest on. This helps prevent the chicken and stuff to stick to the bottom of the pan. 

Then I added the chicken. Really … I just dumped in the chicken. 

I went to my neighbor’s and grabbed some rosemary (left) and thyme (middle) for the chicken. The tarragon (right) was just so I could taste it. I have never had tarragon before and I was intrigued. It’s a bit like licorice, and I’ve been craving licorice things lately. Maybe I’ll do a tarragon infusion drink sometime. 

I added the garlic to the chicken

Then I added the herbs. 

Then I poured in some olive oil

And mixed it up

Added the potatoes. 

Put the top on to keep in the heat and juices. 

Cooked it at 350 for 90 minutes to 2 hours and voila! 

A delicious easy dinner. See all those drippings? That is tastiness. That will be in the next post. It was cooked so well that I could just pull everything now and have another couple different dishes, but that may be for another time. For now I just plated it. 

I then experimented with the garlic on some good bread I bought. It was soooo well roasted I could just spread it like butter. Well most of the garlic I could. Some weren’t fully cooked :(. 

Then some I made into garlic-chicken sammiches. 

Both were incredible. 

Check out next time for the Smothered Chicken that I had the night after.