Creole Chicken Thighs Recipes

CREOLE CHICKEN RECIPE

Steps:

• Season chicken thighs with Creole seasoning.
• Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat; cook chicken in the melted butter until browned, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to a plate. Add tomatoes with green chile peppers, water, tomato sauce, and Spanish-style rice mix to the same skillet; stir well. Return chicken to the rice mixture and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover skillet, and simmer until chicken is no longer pink in the center and rice is tender, about 40 minutes. Serve on a platter with chicken atop the rice.

CREOLE CHICKEN THIGHS

Steps:

• In a 6-qt. slow cooker, combine the first 6 ingredients and 1-1/2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning., Sprinkle chicken with remaining Cajun seasoning. In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat; brown chicken, about 5 minutes per side. Place in slow cooker., Cook, covered, on low until a thermometer inserted in chicken reads at least 170°-175°, 4-5 hours (rice will be saucy).

CHICKEN CREOLE

Steps:

• Sprinkle chicken with 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper. In a large skillet over medium heat, brown chicken in oil; remove and set aside. In the same skillet, saute onion, celery, green pepper and garlic until tender. Stir in tomatoes, water, paprika, remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, cayenne pepper and bay leaf; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes. , Add chicken. Whisk cornstarch and cold water until smooth; stir into chicken mixture and bring to a boil. Simmer, uncovered, until chicken is tender, 10-15 minutes. Remove bay leaf before serving. If desired, serve with rice.

CREOLE CHICKEN I

Steps:

• In a slow cooker, place the chicken, ham, tomatoes, bell pepper, green onions, tomato paste, salt, and hot pepper sauce. Cover, and cook on Low for 4 to 5 hours.
• Combine water and rice in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Mix the cooked rice and sausage into the slow cooker. Cover, and cook on High for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the sausage is heated through.

CREOLE BAKED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place chicken in a baking pan or baking dish and squeeze lemon juice over. In a small bowl combine onion powder, thyme, ground rosemary, salt, and ground black pepper. Sprinkle over the chicken pieces, cover with foil and bake until the juices run clear and the flesh is fork tender, about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove foil during the last 10 to 15 minutes of baking time. Remove from oven and let rest.
• Make the creole sauce while the chicken is in the oven. Heat grapeseed oil over medium heat in a sauce pot. Saute shallots and garlic until shallots turn translucent, being careful not to burn the garlic. Stir in rosemary and thyme, add crushed tomatoes, season with salt and pepper, cover and let simmer for 15 minutes. Add grape tomatoes, red and yellow bell peppers, diced onion, cayenne, and Creole seasoning, and simmer for 15 minutes more. Remove from heat and whisk in butter.
• Remove chicken from oven, transfer to a platter and let rest. Spoon sauce over and sprinkle with minced parsley leaves.

CREOLE FRIED CHICKEN

Steps:

• For the Brine:.
• In a large mixing bowl whisk together water, sugar, worcestershire, hot sauce, salt and granulated garlic until sugar and salt dissolve.
• Add chicken pieces, cover and refrigerate 2-8 hours.
• For the Spice Blend:.
• In a small mixing bowl combine the black pepper, oregano, granulated garlic, onion powder, cayenne, white pepper and celery salt.
• Mix well.
• Set aside half your spice blend.
• Add remaining spice blend to flour and mix well.
• In a deep pot add oil.
• Heat to 375 degrees.
• Meanwhile:.
• Set up a cookie sheet with a rectangular cake rack.
• Remove chicken from brine, setting each piece on rack.
• Using half of the reserved spice blend sprinkle both sides of each piece of chicken.
• Coat in flour mixture-return to rack.
• Let stand for five minutes.
• Coat in flour one more time-return to rack.
• Let stand for an additional five minutes.
• Watching for boil over add chicken 3 to 4 pieces at a time, cooking breasts with thighs, legs with wings.
• There should be no more than four pieces of chicken cooking at a time, chicken should be covered with hot oil by the time the fourth piece is added.
• Cook for 7 minutes, turn.
• Cook an additional 7 minutes.
• I use a meat sensor for the larger pieces.
• Remove cooked chicken to a clean rack, dusting both sides again with the creole spice blend.
• Repeat cooking process with remaining chicken.
• Repeat dusting of both sides of cooked chicken when second batch is complete.
• Note: I have made this recipe three times. The last time I had huge thighs and breasts to cook so I did those two at a time, which made for 3 rounds of frying. I also added 2 minutes to total cooking time. I pull the wings 2-3 minutes before the legs. Expect very brown fried chicked with a nice kick!

CHICKEN THIGHS WITH CREOLE MUSTARD-ORANGE SAUCE

Steps:

• Sprinkle chicken on both sides with salt and pepper. Heat oil in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken and sauté until brown, about 6 minutes per side. Add orange juice and broth to skillet. Simmer until chicken is cooked through, about 5 minutes. Transfer chicken to plate. Add mustard, honey and pepper sauce to skillet. Increase heat and boil until sauce thickens enough to coat spoon, whisking occasionally, about 7 minutes. Return chicken to skillet. Simmer until heated through, about 1 minute. Transfer chicken to plates; top with sauce and serve.

CREOLE OVEN BAKE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven at 400 degrees.
• Spray the bottom of a large glass baking dish with butter flavor cooking spray.
• Add some creole seasoning to bottom of dish.
• Arrange chicken pieces in dish, add freshly ground black pepper to taste and sprinkle on top with more creole seasoning . (careful not to over do it, it would be to salty).
• Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Lower oven to 350 degrees and keep baking chicken for 40 minutes longer.
• Remove from oven and let sit on wire rack for 10 minutes before serving.