Spatchcocking
is a term for butterflying a chicken. The back bone is removed and
the bird is flattened by a sharp hit to the breast. Why? Because
white meat of chicken cooks faster than the dark meat. When roasting
by the time the legs and thighs are cooked, the breast is dry! By
cooking it this way heat gets evenly around to cook both at
approximately the same time. Both white & dark meat will be
juicy.
Just
ask the butcher to do this for you. Then some oil and seasonings will
give you a wonderful feast. Add 2 sides and make this your own new
holiday meal.
Ingredients:
- 1 whole spatchcocked chicken 3-1/2 lb. (Get the butcher to do it for you. All they do is remove the backbone.)
- Salt + Pepper to taste
- ½ tsp each: basil, garlic powder and thyme
- 2 slices bacon each cut in half
- 4tbs oil
For crispier chicken skin, salt the chicken and let it sit uncovered in the fridge overnight. Before cooking, pat the skin dry one more time and sprinkle on a little more salt.
Wipe a roaster pan with oil and place in the oven as it pre-heats to 450 F
Note: if you just spray it, you will get smoke!
Combine
your herbs and garlic with oil +butter.
Coat
the chicken with the herb oil working it under the skin.
Once
oven ready and the pan is really hot: place your chicken in the pan,
with the skin side down. Lay bacon on the bone side.
Be
careful and use hot pads.
Place
the whole pan in the oven and allow it to roast until a thermometer
in the deepest part of the leg reads 160
F.
(start
checking at about 30 minutes. Depending on the size of the bird, it
will be ready around 45 minutes)
When
is it is the correct temperature, remove the pan and turn the bird
over, so that the skin is now facing up.
Cover
with foil and leave somewhere warm for about
10 minutes.
This
will let the bird relax, the juices will settle and the chicken will
continue cooking on its own, from the internal heat still in the
chicken.
Serve
with strips of bacon laid on top.
For
slave's guest tonight, Ellen: hand mashed potatoes, gravy and green
beans.
For
music tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvaAykoPj6Y
Wish
Master could have been here.
socialslave
To
satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
cook!
Please
buy slave's cookbook:
The
Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes
by
Dan White
http://www.amazon.com
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