Ingredients:
1/4 cup flour (you can use gluten-free flour)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 lb chicken legs (about 3-4 large chicken legs)
2 tablespoons olive oil
10 oz mushrooms (each sliced in half)
3 garlic cloves (minced)
1 tablespoon olive oil (if needed)
1 cup chicken stock
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup heavy cream
How To Make Baked Legs with Cream of Mushroom:
In a small bowl, combine the flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper. On a large plate, dredge chicken legs in this seasoned flour mixture.
Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet on medium-high heat. Add chicken legs skin side down and brown for about 4 minutes until the skin turns a nice golden color. Flip chicken legs over to the other side and brown the other side for about 3 minutes. Remove browned chicken legs and set them aside. Also, remove those parts of olive oil that got too dark from browning the chicken with flour mixture.
To the same, now-empty skillet, add mushrooms (sliced in half) and minced garlic. Add an extra tablespoon of olive oil (if needed) and sauté them together on medium heat for 2 minutes.
Add chicken stock to the skillet, scraping up the browned bits at the bottom of the pan. Add 1/4 teaspoon of salt and stir. Place chicken legs back in the pan.
Bring the chicken stock to boil, cover, and reduce heat to simmer on low-medium. Simmer chicken legs for 25-30 minutes, until the chicken is completely cooked through and the juices run clear when chicken is cut in the middle.
Remove the cooked chicken legs to a plate and keep warm. Turn the heat under the skillet to medium-high, and simmer the mushroom sauce for about 4 minutes until it is reduced by about a third.
Stir in the 1/2 cup heavy cream into the mushroom sauce and simmer for another 2 minutes on low-medium heat, constantly stirring and scraping from the bottom of the skillet until the sauce gets thicker.
Add chicken legs back to the skillet to warm them up.
Enjoy.