Our special Cheep Chicken Country Bake will feed your family at a rock bottom price. At the time of publication, our local butcher is selling chicken legs and wings at only $1.95/kg – normally we eat 2kg of chicken legs between us for a meal, and there are still about half a dozen left over for afternoon snacks.
Dishing up this chicken country bake is an absolute budget breaker – we were down to our last scrappy vegetables and 6 chicken legs – you know what guys are like – “what? I only get 2 legs?” – well, make it go further and cook up a heap of vegetables with it – you will not only finish cleaning out your fridge, but this is a super “cheep” meal (pardon the pun). Even if some of those veges are looking a little tired, you can still use them in this dish.
Ingredients:
- 6 chicken drumsticks
- 3 pieces bacon – chopped in chunks
- 3 potatoes – peeled and chopped
- 1 sweet potato – peeled and chopped
- 2 brown onions – peeled and chopped
- 1 red capsicum – remove flesh and seeds, chop
- 1 fresh beetroot – peel and chop
- 3 large mushrooms – thickly sliced
- 1 head garlic – peeled
- Sage
- Rosemary
- Bush seasoning
- All spices seasoning
- Olive oil
- 150g butter
- Salt
Method:
Rub the drumsticks with seasoning and leave overnight to marinate.
Chop up vegetables so they are about the same size.
In a large baking dish, place all ingredients. Drizzle with olive oil and fresh herbs. Chop up butter and place around dish.
Bake 180deg for about 1.5 hours.
Note: you can use any vegetables you have which need to be used up for this dish. Putting it together tonight, I had my doubts that 6 drumsticks would be enough for the 3 of us, the vegetables and bacon made it go that much further. If adding beans, add for the last 10-15 minutes only. Don’t throw away the juices from the pan, drizzle them over the meal when plating up.
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