Wonderful Chicken, Potato, and Gravy Crock Pot

This delicious chicken crockpot recipe was developed after experimenting with quite a few ingredient compositions. I the cream of celery soup gave a better flavor than the cream of mushroom soup usually used. The other ingredient that helped in the flavor department is the smoked sausage. Most of my own recipes use chicken or fish as the base "meat" ingredient, but in this case I think this is a case where "less is more" because of the high flavor concentration of the sausage. Having worked in many labs during my career, it's a great feeling to be making experiments you can eat, something you can't do in most chemlabs.

Ingredients:

3 chicken drumsticks, skin on, bone in

1 medium onion, chopped

2 cans cream of celery soup

2 cloves garlic, minced

4 medium potatoes, prebaked, cooled and peeled

1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1 chicken bouillon cube

1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper

1/2 tsp ground thyme

1 bay leaf

3 oz smoked sausage, sliced crossways about 1/8" thick

1 cup chicken broth (or water)

Instructions:

1 - Add the olive oil to a skillet, then saute' onion until translucent.

2 - Add garlic and cook for no longer than 1 minute. (gets bitter if you don't)

2 - Remove with slotted spoon and put in slow cooker.

3 - Add chicken pieces to same skillet and lightly brown for about 5 minutes.

4 - Add the chicken and all the other ingredients to the crock

pot and cook on high for 4-5 hours or until chicken is tender.

Comment - Words to describe this crock pot meal are hard to find but scrumptious comes to mind, along with unbelievably delicious!

I know you'll just love this one! - Frank


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