Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic Gravy!

Chicken with 40 cloves, made my way~ with GRAVY!!  This is a really easy recipe that will knock you socks off!!  So much flavor!!  Garlic gets sweet and creamy, when cooked this way! You will LOVE this!!!!!

Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic Gravy!

10-12 chicken thighs

Salt, pepper, onion powder to coat both sides of chicken

2 whole bulbs of garlic, around 40 cloves-peeled

4Tbsp olive oil

2 Tbsp butter

2 tsp herbs de provence

For gravy~ you'll need some Wondra powder, some milk (you'll use as much as you need, or want- the Wondra powder will make the gravy to the thickness you want.  Salt gravy to taste)

In a Dutch oven, saute whole cloves on medium high heat till slightly golden, in the olive oil, butter mix.  

When golden, transfer garlic cloves to a small bowl, but keep all the oil in pot!  DON'T throw that out!  We want that garlicky oil to sear our chicken in!! :)

Season chicken on skin side, with the salt, pepper, and onion powder.

On high heat now, put chicken in skin side down, and sear it till skin gets nice and slightly crispy. About 5 minutes.  Salt, pepper, and onion powder the back side of the chicken, while the skin side is searing!

Turn over, and sear the other side for a couple minutes. 

You will need to do this in batches, so take first 'group' out and set aside on plate, to do the same thing with the rest of the chicken.

Once you have sear up all the chicken, pile them back into Dutch oven and  add the herbs de provence- try to get that all over chicken, then add the cloves of garlic back into pot!  Cover with lid, and put into preheated 350 degree oven.  Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.  After baking time is done, transfer all the chicken and garlic onto a warm platter, but leave all the pan drippings in pot! I keep my platter of chicken in a very low oven to keep it warm while I whip up the gravy!

Put all the tasty pan drippings, still in Dutch oven, on the stove top, on medium heat and whisk in  some milk.

Add in the Wondra powder and whisk till the gravy is to the thickness of your liking.  If you think it too thin, slowly add more powder, if too thick, add more milk.  When just right, taste for saltiness. Add salt, if needed~ to your liking!!

This looks just perfectly right to me!  Now for the last step~

Take all those yummy garlic cloves and add to the gravy you just whipped up!!

Now pour all that great garlicky gravy all over your yummy cooked chicken that was waiting on a platter for ya, and serve!!  I make this up with my Jalapeno Cheesy Bread (recipe on this blog, August 2013), and the boys use the bread to sop up more of the gravy! It is finger licking AMAZING!!  Hope you enjoy it as much as we McKeels do!!  :)