How To Make Real Southern Smothered Chicken And Gravy_ Soul Food Cooking

OK , you guys , so to make your smothered um fried chicken and gravy , you're gonna need some chicken here .

I have some um legs and thighs .

I have pre washed these legs and thighs um with salt and vinegar and some room temperature water , lukewarm water .

So , um I'm gonna go ahead .

The first thing I'm gonna do is I am going to season my chicken .

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I am going to use some black pepper to season my chicken with , OK .

I'm gonna go ahead and with my black purple cause I gotta get it all around my chicken , you know , on every piece .

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So now I'm going to use um some complete seasoning .

I need to open this .

There's a new one so it's not open .

Yeah , this is a good season and complete seasoning if you guys haven't used it before .

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Season according to your liking , use some garlic powder .

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I'm gonna use some onion powder .

Onion powder .

Helps bring a little spice when you cook your um fried chicken and I'm gonna use some lary seasoning salt .

You can use um whatever type of seasoning salt you have or you can use regular salt OK .

You don't have to have seasoned salt like I'm using OK , I'm gonna mix my seasoning together y'all my chicken .

You toss it around , that's how you gonna get all that seasoning on every piece like this like , so we just got the glues .

I'm gonna set this to the side , let that seasoning get on there for marinating my chicken .

I'm gonna get my flour ready a in my chicken .

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So use our purpose on self fries and them out .

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But um , cause it's gonna be lightly batter , it's not gonna be um , like deep fried chicken .

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Put this back up .

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And we're gonna put um , season our flour .

So I'm put me some seasoned salt in my flour .

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With the onion powder and garlic powder in my flower and black purple .

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That's the onion pow .

The other one is the garlic .

Now I'm gonna put some black pepper in here .

I'm gonna take this top off because I want that black .

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So let me take these to the side , put some of that complete seasoning in and we are going to mix the seasoning um my flour .

So go ahead and just stir that as well .

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From now we're gonna , um , that are chicken .

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Just don't like the flour , the chicken like this .

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Take any excess flour , shake it off .

That's what we mean by lighting be OK ?

You guys can see this that's slightly battered .

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It's not a super thick , thick coding .

I'm gonna sit this over here to the side .

I'm gonna bottle some more y'all .

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So I have my chicken over here .

It's completed .

Um it's battered and I have my um oil in my cast iron skillet and heat it up .

But while I'm waiting for that to heat up , I'm gonna chop up me some um onion and bell pepper .

That would be different .

I'm not gonna um use the whole bell pepper .

I'm just gonna use a half a bell pepper .

Now , if you don't like bell pepper , you don't have to use a bell pepper .

I'm gonna take these um seeds out , rinse the seeds from the inside .

And what do you have ?

OK .

Now let me cut the bell pepper and if you guys wanna cook along with my video , do so because this is step by step .

Um And I know some of the younger generation may want to do it along with the video .

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And that one it'll be easier .

Um OK .

Y'all .

So my um arm has heated up to the um right temperature .

So I'm gonna get ready to start um frying this chicken .

It may be too hot , but we'll see ahead of um turn it down .

So cause it heated up real quick in this um cast iron skill .

So I got it on a medium heat .

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OK .

So I let it cook on the first side for about a minute when I first put it in and then I flipped it over .

Um , and I'm gonna let this cook for about another minute and then I'm gonna flip it over and I'm gonna do that , um , every three minutes and I'm gonna cook this chicken for about 16 minutes , approximately about 16 minutes .

But I'm gonna constantly turn it like every 3 to 4 minutes .

So I'm getting ready to , um , turn it over now .

Ok .

Ok .

That's some bread and from the first bag .

Ok , we're gonna take this last batch off .

Now , we're gonna get ready to start to make our gravy for our smothered chicken and gravy .

I mean our smothered chicken .

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Now , so I had a little bit um , more oil than needed to make my gravy .

So I poured that amount of oil out .

You just want a shallow amount of oil um , and you do want your pan drinks .

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Because this is what's gonna help give um your graceful flavor .

So I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to um add my onions .

We're gonna saute these onions and these peppers .

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While your onions are sauteed .

Um , go ahead and preheat your oven to um 350 degrees because you're gonna bake this in the oven for about um , 45 minutes .

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You guys , so the leftover flour from when you battered your chicken , it already has some seasoning in it .

We're gonna go ahead and we're gonna use that .

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I can't give you exact measurements because I don't know what kind of skillet you using the size .

Um , how much of oil you have left .

But I can tell you , um , you're gonna need at least from what I got you just gonna spread it out .

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I'm gonna put that and if I need some more , then I add um , some more grapes and with um , flour to make my root for my grave .

And what you're gonna do is you gonna let this cook ?

Not like to the point where you make brown gravy but you gonna cook it a little bit cause you gonna want that flour taste .

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So cook it for about 3 to 4 minutes no longer than five .

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Cause you want a light color gravy and constantly stir it so that it doesn't burn anywhere .

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OK .

So now we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna add our chicken broth .

I'm gonna add a little bit and I add some more .

Go ahead and start it in .

It looks thin but it will get thick immediately and turn it down on low .

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It see how thick it is and you add more of the chicken broth to thin it out .

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I'm gonna add some more .

Remember I'm cooking mine in the oven so I won't be adding my own chicken in here cause I'm gonna put it in a pan .

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It let it cook more about them two minutes .

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So it's the third .

So it gonna get 22 to this , I'm gonna add some um black pepper , some salt , some onion powder and some um garlic sauce .

Add some salt .

You don't have to add too much .

Add some black pepper .

Now with the black pepper when it come to gravy , I believe that you should be generous with black pepper .

Black pepper is one of the flavors that made great and on and here she use the on to add you just a little bit .

You wanna use the whole garlic you can but I'm gonna use some garlic powder .

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And those stories .

Now I'm gonna get ready to pour this over into my chicken in the pan .

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You guys so let's go ahead and let's um pour our gravy over um our chicken .

Mm mm mm mm .

Now this is gonna be so good .

Yes it is .

Ok .

We're gonna go ahead and we're gonna bake this in the oven for about um £4 but until your night is you know have you wanna bake yours ?

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And then we'll be back once it's OK .

You guys so our smothered chicken and gravy is done out of the oven .

I'm gonna let this cool off and finish cooking my dinner so that I can serve it to my family .

Um Thank you guys for joining cooking with TK .

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Smothered chicken , Southern style peace .