Cristy’s Easy Weeknight Roast Chicken

Cristy’s Easy Weeknight Roast Chicken is an easy step by step to making a weekday chicken recipe that everyone will love.

The truth is, that making an elaborate meal is not always possible. The day to day of life can be a lot. There is pressure at work, pressure to get your kids to activities, make sure you are answering school group chats, sports teams and not to mention studying for those Friday spelling tests.

On top of this adding on the pressure of feeding yourself and your family a healthy meal can just be too much. That is why we think it is so important to have a stash of ready reliable recipes that can help simplify things for you. These are the recipes that you can pull out to guarantee that the food will be healthy and delicious without any real thought or effort.

Why We Love Cristy’s Easy Weeknight Roast Chicken

This is one of those miracle recipes. It’s easy to throw together, and needs minimal ingredients. The chicken recipe uses chicken thighs with skin, which helps the chicken remain super juicy when it is done roasting. On top of that it only needs 5 simple ingredients that we are positive you have on hand. It doesn’t get easier than popping chicken in the oven, and moving on to the other things you have to handle in the house.

I began making this for my family right when my oldest was born. I did not know how to cook many things. It’s so easy and made with things I always have on hand, and my kids go absolutely crazy for it! It’s now known as “mommy’s chicken” and they beg me to make it at least once a week. I don’t mind at all, because honestly it’s just so so easy!”

Cristy

Finally and MOST IMPORTANTLY: THIS IS A SALSITA DISH! What is a Salsita Dish? A dish that produces a delicious luscious sauce that can be poured all over your Perfect White Rice!

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Our Tips for This Easy Weeknight Roast Chicken

This is the easiest recipe on the street but here are a few things to help you out, and also show you different ways you can make it your own.

The recipe calls for 8 chicken bone in thighs with skin. The reason it is with bone and skin, is to help keep this chicken juicy. Nobody likes dry chicken. However this is not a contract, you can use whatever chicken you would like. Just adjust the time accordingly.

• Chicken Breasts: depending on thickness 30-45 minutes, flipping them in the middle
• Quarter Legs: 1 hour and 20 minutes
• Bone in Breast: (also highly recommended) 1 hour and 15-25 minutes (depending on your oven’s heat)

Feel free to add in any spices you love to use on top of the basic 4. A little sazon or paprika would be a great addition and would help give the chicken a beautiful brown color.

A good way to tell the chicken is done, the skin will turn crispy brown.

They can be meal prepped. Make them on the day you are making your meals, and then you can just reheat them the day of.

You do not have to wash or rinse your chicken. It has been found that rinsing your chicken in the sink can actually lead to the spreading of more germs in your kitchen. Find the article HERE

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