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Roasted Chickens With Bacon Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Czekit7 / All my dishes 1 year, 2 months ago This recipe was in the most recent Williams-Sonoma catalog. I've made it 2 times already, and love every morsel of it. My husband also enjoys it too much. Prep:15m Cook:90m Servings:8	Czekit7
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Ingredients

2 chickens, each 4-4.5#

Olive oil as needed

Ground pepper, to taste

12-16 bacon slices

2 Tbs ginely diced shallots

1 tsp. all-purpose flour

1/2 cup white wine

2 Tbsp. chicken demi-glace

1 cup chicken broth

1 tsp minced fresh thyme

2 Tbsp cold unsalted butter, cut into 2 pieces

Directions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Blot chick dry with paper towels. Tub back sides with oil; season on both sides with pepper. Place chickens, breast side up; tuck wings behind breasts. Drape bacon slices over breasts.

Place chickens, bacon side up, on rack in roasting pan. Roast until thigh registers 170 degrees (approx. 1-1.25 hrs), tent chickens with foil if bacon becomes too dark. Transfer to carving board, tent with foil.

Discard all but 2 tsp fat from pan. Set pan over medium-high heat; warm reserved fat. Add shallots; cook 2 minutes. Add flour; cook 30 seconds. Add wine; whisk in demi-glace and broth. Simmer 3-4 minutes. Off heat, whisk in thyme and butter. Carve chickens. Drizzle with some of sauce; pass remaining sauce alongside. Serve with champagne.

**I've never used the demi-glace (sold by Williams-Sonoma), and use the jarred chick-broth paste in the broth aisle at the grocery store. I don't have racks for the inside of my 9X13 pan, so I make .5 in slices of onion, bunch them up single-layered on the bottom of the pan, and then place the chicken on top (so the chicken doesn't burn on the bottom). I use a little more white wine, and use every ounce of fat in the bottom of the pan, along with the sliced up onion that I used as a "rack" for the chicken. Again...very tasty...ad lib all the way!! :)

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Comments

crabhappychick 1 year, 2 months ago said:
I really like your ingenuity in improvising a rack! This one is in my family's NEAR future!

frankieanne 1 year, 2 months ago said:
This looks wonderful. Great idea about the onion rack and the demi glace substitution, too. Thank you.

fizzle3nat 1 year, 2 months ago said:
Oh my goodness, does this sound delicious! This is a definite save and a must-try. Five forks for you! Thanks! - Natalie

bakermanrooster 1 month ago said:
This recipe sounds really good thanks for the post and high fives to you and that cute little Mini Pin.
Bakermanrooster--Richard

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