Lynn’s Island Chicken
Why we love this recipe so much
Lynn is my moms name, but this recipe has nothing to do with her. Just a co-winky-dink that one of our favorite meals bares the name of my mother. I actually found the recipe in a local church cookbook, and over the years (because I am a recipe REBEL) I have tweaked it. You can use boneless chicken if you like, my kids love dark meat so I always make it with thighs and legs. Also you can cut down on the number of chicken pieces and keep the sauce amount the same. One can never, EVER have too much sauce in my book! This chicken is even better the next day, so you might as well make the whole recipe and eat it two days in a row.
Gather these ingredients
How to make Lynn’s Island Chicken
1. preheat oven to 300 degrees
2. in a sauce pan add 1 tblsp olive oil, add the onions and saute until translucent
3. add preserves, barbeque sauce, and soy sauce to the pan
4. Let this cook on medium for 5 minutes, then add pineapple, juice and all, cook for another 5-10 minutes until it is looking thick and bubbly. **here is where and when you need to add the red pepper flakes if you like a little spice in your life! Turn off burner and set aside.
5. Now you want to get yourself a little assembly line going. Chicken, washed and patted dry, your flour and season salt, a pan with oil and butter, then last but not least a pan or dish big enough so the chicken pieces can have a little space to do the back stroke in the “island sauce”
6. In a frying pan melt 1Tbsp olive oil and 1Tbsp butter.
7. dredge the chicken pieces in the flour and brown them in the frying pan. (This is where my cooking sometimes goes awry. My pan gets too hot, I get too hurried and the flour starts to burn, and the whole house stinks! So be patient don’t let your pan get too hot, or let yourself get an excess of flour on the chicken. I am sure, you all are way more dignified in the kitchen than me, so no worries) This is ideally how they should be browned, they don’t need to be cooked, just browned and the flour will help your sauce stick to the chicken and thicken up the sauce as it bakes.
8. Now if you’re a mushroom fan then toss the mushrooms in the pan when you are all done browning the chicken, let them get brown and then toss them around the chicken pieces. AND if you are also into water chestnuts you can give those a fling around the chicken as well, and the red pepper too.
9. Now take a spatula, because you don’t want to leave one bit of the sauce behind, and spread the sauce over the chicken pieces. Then cover the whole sha-bang with tin foil and pop it in the oven for 45 minutes.
**If I were a crock-pot kinda gal I might put this in a crock-pot and see what happens. But I am not a crock-potty kinda gal…but if you are let me know how that works out for ya!
10. Then after 45 minutes take off the tin foil up the heat to 350 and bake for an additional 45 minutes to an hour.
Ooohh look at the sticky saucy goodness!
Serve it with rice, and a fresh vegi. We had green beans this night, but carrots, steamed broccoli, sugar snap peas are all good.
Hopefully in my insomnia I didn’t miss a step or add a freaky ingredient…if something look highly unusual or amiss then I trust you will do what seems logical….
Hope you enjoy!
Lynn’s Island Chicken
Equipment
- 1 3qt sauce pan
- 1 12" frying pan or cast iron skillet
- 1 large roasting pan
Ingredients
- 10 pieces chicken
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 tps season salt
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp butter
- 10 ounces apricot preserves
- 1 cup barbeque sauce I use sweet baby rays original
- 5 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 red bell pepper sliced thin
- 8 ounce can pineapple tid-bits
- 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes or more depending on how spicy you like your food more depending on how spicy you like your food
- 6 ounce can sliced water chestnuts drained
- 2 cups mushrooms cleaned and quartered
Instructions
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
- Add 1 tbsp olive oil to saucepan over medium heat add the onions and saute until translucent.
- Add apricot preserves, bbq sauce and soy sauce to onions in saucepan. Let this simmer for 5 minutes, turn down to low if it seems to be bubbling too much. Stir so it doesn't burn. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Add pineapple, juice and all, cook for an additional 5 minutes. **Add the red pepper flakes now if you would like this spicy. Add as much as you like 1/4 tsp is just a starting point. Turn off the burner and set sauce aside.
- Set up assembly line for cooking chicken: chicken patted dry, your flour with season salt stirred in, on the stove a skillet with oil and butter. Have baking pan ready as chicken browns you can remove from frying pan into baking pan.
- In a frying pan melt 1 tbsp olive oil and 1 tbsp butter.
- Dredge the chicken pieces in the flour and brown them in the frying pan. (This is where my cooking sometimes goes awry. My pan gets too hot, I get too hurried and the flour starts to burn, and the whole house stinks! Be patient, don't let your pan get too hot, or let yourself get an excess of flour on the chicken. I am sure, you all are way more dignified in the kitchen than me, so no worries) Chicken doesn't need to be cooked through, just browned. Don't over crown frying pan. Fry chicken in 4-5 pieces at a time. Remove to baking pan after they are browned 2-3 minutes on each side
- After all the chicken has been browned and moved to baking dish, toss the mushrooms in the pan, let them get brown as you do scrap up any browned bits from the pan. Place them around the chicken pieces with the water chestnuts and sliced red pepper.
- Now take a spatula, because you don't want to leave one bit of the sauce behind, and drizzle the sauce over the chicken pieces. Then cover the dish with tin foil and place it in preheated oven for 45 minutes.
- Then after 45 minutes take off the tin foil up the heat to 350 and bake for an additional 45 minutes to an hour.
Yummy!
I'm not a mushroom person, but that looks delicious!
I made this tonight for dinner with some alterations. I had to use orange marmalade instead of apricot preserves, no red pepper and I used chicken breasts (we are not a dark meat kind of family). It also took about half the time to cook. Overall, I think it was good and the kids managed to get a few bites past their mouths.
I would love the secret to freezeing peppers too – We love peppers of all colors and they are so pricy at the store.
Courtney, I am doing a post on freezing stuff just for you my friend! 🙂
Yum! Whats even better is that I have all the ingredients so it will be on the menu soon!
I would love to freeze peppers…but I'm not sure how. How do you do it? Whole as is? cut up? and then once you pull it out of the freezer do you just let it thaw on the counter?
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Yum sister!! I will have to try this one for sure!! Never heard of Miss Lynn's chicken – we usually opt out of bones in our chicken unless it's hot wings or fried. Made Pdub's banana bread yesterday – Mmmmmm! The countdown to the ranch is on!!
XOXO