Use your favorite stout or dark ale for this beer-chicken recipe, best served with a side of mashed potatoes and roasted veggies for the ultimate comfort food.
Beer-Braised Chicken
- Prep Time 35 min
- Total 1 hr 25 min
- Servings 4
- Ingredients 8
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 large onion, cut in half, thinly sliced (1 cup)
- 4 bone-in chicken thighs, skin removed
- 4 chicken drumsticks, skin removed
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 3/4 cup stout or dark beer
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Instructions
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Step1In 12-inch skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Cook onion in butter 3 to 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until crisp-tender. Sprinkle all sides of chicken with salt and pepper. Add chicken to skillet; cook 4 to 6 minutes, turning once, until browned.
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Step2Pour beer around chicken. Heat to boiling; reduce heat to low. Cover; simmer 45 to 50 minutes or until juice of chicken is clear when thickest part is cut to bone (at least 165°F). Remove chicken from skillet; cover to keep warm.
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Step3In small bowl, mix flour and 1/4 cup hot cooking juices with whisk until smooth. Pour mixture into skillet; cook over medium heat 5 to 6 minutes, stirring constantly with whisk, until thickened and bubbly. Serve chicken with gravy.
Nutrition
300
Calories
13g
Total Fat
36g
Protein
8g
Total Carbohydrate
2g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 300
- Calories from Fat
- 120
- Total Fat
- 13g
- 20%
- Saturated Fat
- 6g
- 30%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 130mg
- 44%
- Sodium
- 600mg
- 25%
- Potassium
- 390mg
- 11%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 8g
- 3%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 2g
- Protein
- 36g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 2%
- 2%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 20%
- 20%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 5 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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