Smothered Chicken And Sweet Potatoes

Church discipline is a powerful tool in evangelism. People notice when our lives are different, especially when there’s a whole community of people whose lives are different- not people whose lives are perfect, but whose lives are marked by genuinely trying to love God and love one another. When churches are seen as conforming to the world, it makes our evangelistic task all the more difficult. As Nigel Lee of English InterVarsity once said, we become so like the unbelievers they have no questions they want to ask us. May we so live that people are made constructively curious.

Mark Dever

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats	Dutch	One-dish, Potatoes, Poultry	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2/3	c	Unbleached flour
3 1/2	lb	Frying chicken, cut into
		serving pieces and
		skinned
3	c	Low sodium chicken broth
1/2		Onion, sliced
2	c	Halved mushrooms
2		Sweet potatoes, cut into
		eighths up to three
		pounds
2	T	Cornstarch
2	T	Cold water
3	c	Hot cooked rice, or noodles

INSTRUCTIONS

Set oven to 350F.  Coat chicken pieces in 1/3 cup of the flour (shaker
bag).  Spray a Dutch oven with no-stick cooking oil. Set the pot over
medium-high heat until hot. Add chicken. Brown the pieces on both
sides. Remove from the pot and set aside.  Pour 1/2 cup of the broth
into the pot ad scrape the bottom to loosen  any browned bits. Bring to
a simmer. Add onions, reduce the heat to  low and cook for 5 minutes.
Add the mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes,  or until softened.  Add the
remaining 1/3 cup flour and cook, stirring for 2 minutes (the  mixture
will be dry). Add 1 cup of the remaining broth, stirring to  break up
any lumps of flour.  Add the sweet potatoes, chicken and remaining
1-1/2 cups broth. Bring  to a boil, cover and transfer the pot to the
oven. Bake 1 hr.  Transfer the potatoes and chicken from the pot to a
swerving platter.  GRAVY: In a cup, mix the cornstarch and water. Pour
into the pot.  Cook over medium heat, stirring, until the broth is
thickened. Serve  over the chicken and potatoes. Serve with rice, or
noodles.  VARY: Skinless, boneless pieces of chicken about 3 ounces per
person.  Proceed with recipes. Serve with confetti rice (corn, diced
carrot and  peas) in a side dish or arranged as a ring around the
chicken.  PER SERVING: 558 cals, 7.5 g fat, 12.0%  Recipe by:
Prevention's Healthy One-Dish Meals (1996)  Posted to MC-Recipe Digest
V1 #895 by KitPATh  <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu> on Nov 09, 1997

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 336 Calories From Fat: 8 Total Fat: <1g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 45.2mg Potassium: 217.6mg Carbohydrates: 76.7g Fiber: 1.2g Sugar: 1.2g Protein: 4.8g

We only cease to be the slave of one appetite because another taste has brought it into subordination. A youth may cease to idolize sensual pleasure, but it’s only because the idol of material gain has gotten the ascendancy. There is not one personal transformation in which the heart is left without an object of ultimate beauty and joy. Its desire for one particular object may be conquered, but its desire to have some object is unconquerable. The only way to dispossess the heart of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one.

Thomas Chalmers