Baked chicken legs with garlic gravy

Well this was an easy dinner, but yet delicous , every one emptied their plates. That is always a good result to the chef . Chicken is easy to cook, cheap to buy and nearly everyone likes it. Not much flavour to it, so doing a gravy gives it a little boost , so you can give some work to your taste buds.


Preparation Time: up to 30 minutes
Cooking time : 45 minute to an hour
Total Time: up to 1 hour 30 minutes
Serves 3-4
Level : medium

Baked Chicken Legs with a Garlic Gravy and Cauliflower Cheese

Ingredients, For the Chicken legs

6 chicken legs
Seasoning
1 onion

For the garvy

1 whole bulb of garlic wrapped in foil and heads cut.
Chicken dripping
500ml of hot vegetable stock
1 tbsp of melted butter
1 tbsp of plain flour

For the Cauliflower Cheese

1/2 a large cauliflower
100 ml of double cream
bread crumbs for topping
100g of mexican cheese
100g + 100g cheddar cheese
3 rashers of bacon cooked
olive oil

Method

Lay your chicken legs in a baking tray, cover with oil and season. Cut an onion in quarters and put with the chicken, and stick your garlic bulb wrapped in foil in the baking dish with your chicken. Put in a preheated oven 180 degrees and cover tightly with foil for 30 minutes. Uncover after 30 minutes and leave to brown and go crispy about another 30 minutes.
Get your cauliflower and boil for five minutes. Stick it in a small dish and mix with the bacon , 100g cheddar and Mexican cheese. Drizzle over your double cream and some olive oil. Cover the top with the rest of your cheddar and some breadcrumbs, season and drizzle a little bit more olive oil.
Put in the oven with the chicken for about 30-40 minutes just make sure the top is nice and brown.
For the gravy, Take your chicken out, and put to one side and cover with some foil . Put the baking dish on the stove, on a low flame. In a bowl mix your melted butter with the flour, and start pouring it in the baking dish slowly, mix it all up and add your stock. (you should have the onion in there too , that was cooking in with the chicken.) Now get your garlic bulb, take out of the foil and squeeze the garlic out into the mixture. stir it all , and give everything a good blend with a hand blender. When the gravy is thick enough pour into a gravy bowl and serve in the middle of your table.

I served mine with some mash and green bean. But you can uise some savoury rice instead of the potatoes for a healthier version.

That's the picture of the bulb of garlic for the gravy, before put in the raosting tray .