Family Traditions - Chicken, Rice and Gravy:
Five Minutes to Prepare, 1 Hour to bake

Chicken, Rice and Gravy was a weekly meal in our house when the children were young. I learned the recipe from a Vietnamese friend, a mother with 5 children to feed.

It goes like this:

1 whole chicken cut up
1/2 cup soy sauce
3 or 4 garlic cloves
Optional: 1 tsp sugar

Put chicken skin side down in a baking pan. Pour soy sauce over chicken. Mash garlic cloves and put in the pan. Add sugar if you wish - it makes the sauce a bit darker and glossy.

Bake at 350 for about 1 hour or until chicken is done and the skin in shiny. Turn chicken over half way through baking.

Serve with steamed rice.