Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Food Network Recipe - Shake and Bake chicken recipe with stuffed baked potatoes


Today for dinner we will be making shake and bake chicken with stuffed potatoes. This meal may sound complicated but I assure you it isn’t. I discovered this recipe off of the Food Network,courtesy of Rachel Ray who is known for being one of the most popular tv chefs of all time. This meal will take approximately 40 minutes to make this easy meal of shake and baked chicken with baked stuffed potatoes , so lets get started!
 
You Will Need
Chicken
Shake and bake mix
A clear plastic bag
4 potatoes
bacon
Cooking oil
2 scallions chopped up                                              
Black pepper
Salt
2 cups worth of shreddaded cheese
Sour cream (optional)

steps for cooking stuffed potatoes            

1.       Make sure the potatoes has been cleaned, before doing any cooking. Once clean use a fork to prick the potatoes numerous times around each potatoes.

2.       Lightly spread your cooking oil evenly around the potatoes and them put them into the microwave to cook for 12 minutes.

3.       During this time chop up your bacon into even edible sizes, some people prefer them extreme tiny why others like to leave them a bit bigger. Place your bacon pieces into a frying pan to cook until it fits your liking, some people prefer they’re bacon crisp while others may not, once bacon is cooked lower the heat and added in your chopped scallions to heat up for approximately 1 to 2 minutes.

4.       Once the potatoes have cooled for five minutes slice the potatoes in half and use and ice cream scoop or potatoes scoop to make an empty middle whole into the potatoes, fill the whole of the potatoes with scallops and bacon and then reinsert the removed potatoes.

5.       Once this is done place the potatoes into oven to cook and melt the cheese for the duration of another 5 minutesFood Network

Steps for cooking Shake and Bake chicken

1. Clean your chicken prior to anything else , make sure it has already been defrosted

2.  Pre-heat your oven to approximately 450 degrees

3. While your oven is pre-heating take a clear plastic bag and pour in your shake and bake mix into the bag ,( by purchasing shake and bake mixes from the store this allows you to save some extra time because of branfs like No Name)

4.Take chickens individually and place it in the bag of shake and bake and shake the bag till the chicken leg or breast is now completely coated , reapeat this step until all chicken pieces are coated evenly.

5.Now lay tin foil on your baking sheet to avoid the chicken from sticking onto the pan and lightly oil it with cooking, then lay your chickens onto the pan and rotate the side of the chicken after 20 minutes when chicken until chicken is golden brown and juices are running.

Hope you enjoy this delicious meal of shake and baked chicken with baked stuffed potatoes. Feel free to tweet me, or send me a message on my twitter page on any additional questions you may have at @Its_DinnerTime. The recipe of the Stuffed potatoes was taken from the Food Network and made by the famous chef Rachel Ray.Hope you enjoyed this meal and dont be afraid to share it with friends.

Bon appetite and thanks for dinning with me.