Easy Oven Chicken - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 chicken, cut up in frying pieces
1 c. flour
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. paprika

Preparation

Mix flour, salt and paprika in a paper bag.
Cut chicken up into frying pieces.
Shake chicken in bag.
Melt 1/4 cup butter or 1 stick margarine in a shallow pan at 425\u00b0 on lower shelf of oven, until slightly hot.
Add chicken in single layer, skin down.
Place on lower shelf of oven and bake 30 minutes.
Turn chicken.
Turn oven down to 375\u00b0.
Bake another 30 minutes, until tender.
If you don't like crisp chicken, cover the pan with aluminum foil, adding 1 teaspoon of water.
Bake until done.