This Braised Chicken Is About to Become Your Weekday Go-To

Making a meal for yourself after getting home from work sucks. Like, really, really hard. After yet another day of mind-numbing monotony at work, the last thing you want to do is cook a meal that is long on prep and short on flavor. That's especially the case if you happen to have endless delivery options around and an unquenchable thirst for reruns of .

Luckily, making a great weekday meal for yourself that isn't two pounds of boxed mac and cheese is way easier than you think.

This recipe will be your go-to chicken dish. Using a traditional, no-fail, easy-to-implement braising technique, you can have a homey, warming chicken dinner—with the vegetables built in—in just over an hour. Talk about go-to recipes! Trust us—this will become Exhibit A in your daily repertoir.