What’s for Dinner? Bag It.
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It’s been a long day in lab and we’re tired, hungry and sick of mac ‘n cheese… many times, sheer exhaustion makes us want to say “Bag it, I’ll just skip dinner.” Actually, “Bag it” is exactly the right answer!
Oven bags are one of the easiest ways to set up a meal with minimal prep time and virtually no clean-up – a perfect combination! Additionally, because the meat or vegetables cook in liquid, they are incredibly tender and moist. So no more baked chicken that could double as a desiccant.
Although oven bags are great for anything that would normally be roasted (including the holiday turkey!), today we’re going to focus on an easy BBQ chicken recipe.
Ingredients
- ¼ cup flour
- 4 chicken breasts (also delicious with thighs or drumsticks)
- 1 bottle BBQ sauce
- 1 oven bag
- 9” x 13” baking pan (or any size large enough to hold bag)
Protocol
- Preheat oven to 350˚F
- Shake flour in oven bag
- Pour BBQ sauce into bag
- Add chicken and squeeze bag to coat all pieces with sauce (chicken should be submerged)
- Twist and close bag with nylon tie (included with bag; leave room in bag, don’t twist down too close to chicken)
- Cut a ½” slit in top of bag to allow venting
- Bake for 40 min
The sauce should be boiling through and the chicken should be tender when done. BE CAREFUL WHEN OPENING BAG (watch out for steam burns). Remove chicken and thrown out bag (no mess!).
Serve with side dish of choice and be glad you decided to “Bag it” after all!
Once you go oven bag, you’ll never go back… Check out the Reynolds site for an insane number of oven bag recipes.
Have any oven bag success stories to share?
kathryn
wrote on September 11, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I love BAGGING! If I am cooking a turkey, roast or whole chicken I layer the bottom of the bag with vegetables that compliment the meat. This holds the meat up off the bottom of the bag. Pour a can of stock (chicken or beef or vegetable) and it truly is a complete meal in the bag!
dayman
wrote on September 14, 2009 at 7:20 pm
There is also the crockpot option, but after an unfortunate incident with ~$20 worth of ingredients and a faulty unit that resulted in everything staying a tepid luke-warm temperature after I left it all day, I have been scared away.
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