Sour Cream & Green Onion Chicken and Mashed Potatoes

As with what seems just about everyone else, we feel like we are on the verge of coming down with something. Whether it is the change of weather, or an actual illness, warm comforting food to ensure our bodies are as well taken care of as possible, is an essential (not to mention the obvious fact that we also like to eat...). 

With that, tonight's dinner was chicken baked in a sour cream and green onion sauce (and shredded), mashed potatoes, and corn. I realize in my last post from the day before yesterday we also had a potato mash, but the sweet potato mash is such a different flavor from regular mashed potatoes I figured it wasn't really like we were eating the same food again two nights later. 

Here follows the recipe for the chicken and mashed potatoes, both very simple, and very satisfying :)

Sour Cream and Green Onion Shredded Chicken:

(top it on the potatoes like you would gravy)

Ingredients:

2 boneless, skinnless chicken breasts

1/2 c. sour cream 

3 green onions

garlic powder to taste

1 tsp worcestershire sauce (this could be omitted, but does give a nice punctuation to the sauce)

Method:

Preheat oven to 350° 

Thaw chicken.

For more tender chicken pound with meat mallet or meat tenderizer. (As we are back at our apartment and meat mallet-less I used our above pictured meat tenderizer.)

Stir together sour cream, worcestershire sauce, and garlic powder. Cut green onion and stir into sour cream.

Put sour cream mixture in glass baking dish and place chicken on top. 

Cover chicken with mixture. Place in oven and bake for 30 minutes, stirring sour cream mixture several times and flipping chicken after 15 minutes. 

After about 30 minutes chicken should be cooked through (depending on size and thickness of your meat), at this time remove from oven, shred with forks and place back in the oven reducing the temperature to 250° and bake for an additional 15 minutes, remembering to stir occasionally. 

Ingredients for mashed potatoes:

4 potatoes (this made 2-3 servings, and these potatoes were not very large).

1/4 c. milk 

1 tbls butter

1 (heaping) tsp of sour cream 

salt to taste 

Method:

Peel potatoes and slice, place in pot and fill with water just covering potatoes. Cover with lid and boil until tender. 

When potatoes are tender, drain, then mash. After mashing potatoes to desired smoothness add in milk, butter, and sour cream. Mash in ingredients. Add salt to taste. 

When complete I placed mashed potatoes in a glass oven dish and placed them in the oven during the last 10 minutes the chicken was cooking with a bit of butter on top. 

Take it all out of the oven, place chicken on potatoes, and....

.... poof! Dinner :)