French Chicken in a Pot
From lacrenshaw 15 years ago
- 90 minutes to make
- Serves 4
Gleaned from cooksillustrated.com, they explain that a dry roasting "environment" allows juices that come out of the chicken to be reabsorbed, undiluted by other flavors. It DOES make sense...
Ingredients
- 1 whole roasting chicken (4 1/2 to 5 lbs.), giblets removed shopping list
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt OR 1 teaspoon table salt shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper shopping list
- 1 tablespoon olive oil shopping list
- 1 small onion, chopped shopping list
- 1 small celery stalk, chopped shopping list
- 6 medium garlic cloves, peeled and trimmed shopping list
- 1 bay leaf shopping list
- 1 medium sprig fresh rosemary, optional shopping list
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon juice from 1 lemon shopping list
How to make it
- Adjust oven rack to lowest position and heat oven to 250 degrees F.
- Pat chicken dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper.
- Heat oil in large Dutch oven over medium heat until just smoking.
- Add chicken, breast side down.
- Scatter onion, celery, garlic bay leaf and rosemary around chicken.
- Cook until breast is lightly browned, about 5 minutes.
- Using a wooden spoon in the cavity of the chicken, flip the bird over and cook until chicken and vegetables are well-browned, 6 to 8 minutes.
- Remove Dutch oven from heat, place large sheet of foil over the pot and cover tightly with the lid.
- Transfer pot to oven and cook until done about 80 to 110 minutes OR until breast reaches 160 degrees and thigh reaches 175 degrees.
- Remove from oven.
- Transfer chicken to carving board and tent with foil for 20 minutes.
- Strain chicken juices from pot into a fat separator (should have 3/4 cup).
- Allow liquid to settle for 5 minutes then pour into saucepan over low heat.
- Carve chicken, adding any accumulated juices to saucepan.
- Stir lemon juice into jus to taste.
- Serve chicken, passing jus at table.
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Great recipe! :)
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This sounds amazing!
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How interesting! I have to try this! 5 forks!
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