Lip Smackin' Smothered Chicken

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 
• 3 pounds chicken whole
• 1.5 teaspoons salt 
• 0.8 teaspoon pepper black
• 0.5 medium onion yellow thinly sliced
• 3  spring onion cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1.5 cups flour all-purpose
• 0.7 cup soya sauce 
• 7 cups water hot
• 2 teaspoons onion powder 

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• whisk
• pot
• dutch oven

Directions

1. Heat oil in deep 12-inch skillet over low heat 5 minutes.
2. Sprinkle chicken with salt and 1/2 teaspoon of the black pepper; place in hot skillet. Cover chicken with yellow and green onions.
3. Cook chicken over medium heat 10 minutes; turn chicken. Cook 10 minutes longer or until golden. Reduce heat to low; cook 5 minutes longer. Turn; cook 5 minutes.
4. Remove chicken from skillet.
5. Place in large pot (Dutch oven); set aside.
6. Continue heating skillet over low heat. Stir together flour, 1/3 cup of the soy sauce and 4 cups of the hot water in medium bowl with wire whisk or fork until smooth.
7. Cook flour mixture in hot skillet over medium heat, stirring constantly with wire whisk or fork, until mixture boils and thickens. Stir in remaining water, 1 cup at a time, stirring after each addition, until smooth.
8. Stir in remaining 1/3 cup soy sauce, the onion powder and remaining 1/4 teaspoon black pepper.
9. Pour gravy over chicken in large pot. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 1 hour, stirring occasionally. (Gravy may stick to pot.)