Simplest Roast Chicken
As Chicken-licken was going one day to the wood, whack! An acorn fell from a tree onto his head. But it wasn’t the acorn, it was the sky!
From New Best Recipe – the Simplest Roast Chicken. Recipe is chicken, butter, salt, pepper.
Lessons learned
1. Butter is what browns the skin, and helps it be more delicious
2. More pepper! Add lemon!
3. Brine regular chicken, but not Kosher ones, which are already brined.
4. Roast at 375 for 15 min on each side to evenly cook the meat, then breast up and 450 to crispen! Breast should be at 160. Thighs 165-170.
5. Take out fire alarm before cooking at 450, or something in the oven will burn.
Need to learn: how to smoke the chicken to give the meat more flavor.
Turned out to be quite juicy, even the breast.
What happened to the leg was that I got over-excited and ate it before I took a picture.
Taste: 3/5 (Juicy, but a little bland)
Difficult: relatively easy. Butter-salt-pepper-bake!