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    Home » Recipes » Plain Culture

    Mennonite Farmhouse Secret-Sauce Chicken

    Published: Nov 2, 2021 · Updated: Nov 1, 2021 by Kevin Williams | Leave a Comment

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    Mennonite Farmhouse Chicken

    The kitchens of Amish and Mennonite cooks are almost sacred places, places to create concoctions like this Secret-Sauce Chicken. Pots and pans and utensils everywhere.  I've been in some kitchens where everything was super organized and neat, whereas others have been cluttered and full of "stuff."  So Amish and Mennonite people are like anyone else, there are neatniks and not-so-neatniks.  But either way, the kitchen is usually full of flavor and generations-old culinary secrets.  Not everyone Amish woman is a good cook (although that is subjective), but cooking IS something that is very much valued and passed down from generation to generation so it is a skill that seems more prevalent among the Amish and Mennonites.  Hearty recipes like this robust farmhouse chicken are common in the recipe boxes of Plain cooks.  Give this Secret Sauce Chicken from a Mennonite woman in Pennsylvania a try!

    Start with chicken

    Most Amish and Mennonite cooks won't pick up a package of chicken at the local supermarket like this, they'll instead have their own home-raised chickens.

    this mix gives the chicken some super flavor

    Form an "assembly line" which you'll coat the chicken in and it'll result in some succulent flavor.

    into the oven

    Amish cooks use kerosene ovens and wood-stoves for their main cooking. This chicken goes into the oven and then you begin the sauce.

    saucy!

    This is the "secret sauce" which is a blend of chicken drippings, sour cream, and other seasonings that really add kick to this dish. I guess it is not-so-secret since the sauce recipe is below!

    finished supper!

    This chicken pairs well with some pasta and veggies. Good stuff.

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    • 🍗Mennonite Farmhouse Secret-Sauce Chicken Ingredients
    • 📋Mennonite Farmhouse Chicken Instructions
    • 🐔More Amish Chicken Recipes
    • 🐔Printer-Friendly Mennonite Farmhouse Chicken Recipe

    🍗Mennonite Farmhouse Secret-Sauce Chicken Ingredients

    •  2 lbs chicken breast
    • ½ cup butter
    • ¼ cup flour
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 1 dash pepper
    • Sauce:
    • ½ cup sour cream
    • 3 tablespoon water
    • 1 tablespoon flour
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • 1 dash pepper
    • 1 dash paprika

    📋Mennonite Farmhouse Chicken Instructions

    1. Preheat over 350°
    2. Add butter to shallow baking dish, melt.
    3. Dip chicken in butter & roll in flour, salt & pepper. then arrange skin side up in baking dish. (sprinkle with paprika)
    4. Cook chicken for 45-60 mins until done.
    5. Add drippings from chicken, water, sour cream, flour, salt, pepper & paprika to sauce pan, bring to boil stirring constantly.
    6. Pour sauce over chicken then serve with mashed potatoes or noodles.

    🐔More Amish Chicken Recipes

    Chicken is a staple in most Amish and Mennonite homes, here are some favorites!

    Hurry Chicken

    An easy, quick, delicious dish!

    Amish Oven-Fried Chicken

    Full of flavor!

    30-Minute Chicken and Dumplings

    Dumplings make everything better!

    Emma Hershberger's Yummy Chicken

    Delicious dish!

    🐔Printer-Friendly Mennonite Farmhouse Chicken Recipe

    Mennonite Farmhouse Chicken

    Mennonite Farmhouse Chicken Recipe

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    Ingredients
      

    • 2 pounds chicken breasts
    • 1 /2 cup butter
    • ¼ cup flour
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 1 dash pepper

    Sauce

    • ½ cup sour cream
    • 3 tablespoons water
    • 1 tablespoon flour
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • 1 dash pepper
    • 1 dash paprika

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat over 350°
    • Add butter to shallow baking dish, melt.
    • Dip chicken in butter & roll in flour, salt &pepper. then arrange skin side up in baking dish. (sprinkle with paprika)
    • Cook chicken for 45-60 mins until done
    • Add drippings from chicken, water, sour cream, flour,salt, pepper & paprika to sauce pan, bring to boil stirring constantly.
    • Pour sauce over chicken then serve with mashed potatoes ornoodles.
    Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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