Main Dish Recipes - Baked Yogurt Chicken

Ingredients  

• 1 cut-up frying chicken, 2 1/2 to 3 lbs.

• Salt and pepper

• 6 Tbs. butter or margarine

• 2 Tbs. flour

• 1 Tbs. paprika

• 2 cups Dannon Plain Yogurt

• 1/4 lb. fresh mushrooms, cleaned and sliced

• 2 Tbs. fresh lemon juice

• 2 Tbs. chopped fresh dill or parsley

Serves about 4

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Method:

1. Wash chicken pieces and wipe dry. Add salt and pepper. In a large pan, melt 4 Tbs. of butter; fry chicken until golden brown.

2. Remove to buttered shallow baking dish. Sprinkle flour and paprika into pan juices and cook, stirring for 1 minute. Stir in yogurt and mix well.

3. Spoon over chicken. Sauté mushrooms in remaining 2 Tbs. of butter and lemon juice for 1 minute and spoon over pan. Sprinkle with the dill.

4. Bake, covered, in preheated moderate oven (325°F.) for about 1 1/4 hours, or until chicken is tender.