6 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs (must be skin on)
2 garlics
fresh rosemary
1 cup white wine
1.5 cups chix stock
1/2 lemon
Bring chicken thighs to room temp. Salt and pepper each side
Heat up about 2 tbs canola oil (doesn't spatter as much as olive oil) in your big cast iron pan over med-high heat depending on how hot your stove gets
When the pan is hot but not smoking, put the chix thighs in skin down for about 4 minutes, until the skin is a deep gold and crispy, then flip the thighs and cook on the other side about 3 minutes
Remove thighs to a separate plate
Turn down heat to low-med, wait a minute for the pan to cool off a bit and then put in garlic and rosemary. Saute until you can smell the garlic, about 1-2 minutes
Pour in white wine, turn heat up to med-high and cook off wine until it's reduced to 1/3 the amount of liquid
Pour in chicken stock, and put chicken thighs back in the pan skin side up! Liquid should not cover the tops of the thighs
Bring liquid to a simmer, and then turn down to keep at low simmer. Tent a piece of aluminum foil over the pan so it's mostly covered but an inch is exposed for steam to escape.
Simmer exactly 30 minutes
Remove thighs from pan to a clean plate. Taste the sauce (it will be pretty liquidy and that's what you want) to see if it needs salt (mine never needs salt, for some reason the salt on the chicken makes the sauce pretty salty), and squeeze in half a lemon into the sauce. The lemon is the most important part!! It makes it so freaky good!
Make some mashed potatoes or rice, put two thighs on a plate over your starch and ladle over a good amount of the sauce. Yum!