Good recipes for a whole Chicken to bake?!
Good recipes for a whole Chicken to bake?
Abot 3.46 Ibs. need to bake any ideas?
Answers:
My favorite came from Craig Claiborne, the late cookbook author and food editor for The New York Times newspaper.
He said it was a classic French recipe and was good for hot roast chicken and especially good for cold chicken to take along for a picnic. It is!
Roast Chicken
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wash and pat dry a whole chicken
rub the skin with oil or butter, sprinkle on the skin thyme (crush it with your fingers to a powder) and some fresh black pepper ....
put into the cavity: 3 or 4 whole peeled garlic cloves, smashed a little... a bay leaf ... and 3 or 4 sprigs of thyme, or a nice big pinch of dry thyme leaves ...
bake until skin is nicely browned...you know, I am sure!
Bon appetit!
Simple whole roasted chicken
INGREDIENTS
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon white sugar
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 (4 pound) whole chicken
5 cloves garlic, crushed
DIRECTIONS
In a bowl, mix the salt, sugar, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Rub the chicken with the mixture. Cover chicken, and place in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
Preheat oven to 500 degrees F (260 degrees C).
Stuff the chicken cavity with the garlic. Place the chicken, breast side down, on a rack in a roasting pan.
Roast 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce heat to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C), and continue roasting 15 minutes. Baste chicken with pan drippings, reduce heat to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C), and continue roasting 30 minutes, to an internal temperature of 180 degrees F (85 degrees C). Let stand 20 minutes before serving.
This one is the best! Pretty simple and VERY tasty!
CHICKEN - STEAMED WITH BEER
Chicken beer steamed inside and roasted crispy outside.
Start with a 3.5-5 lb Whole Chicken
Spices For Making The Rub;
1/2 teaspoon table salt
? teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon celery salt
1 teaspoon Paprika
1/4 teaspoon Garlic Powder
Thaw chicken (If frozen) in a pot with enough water to cover it adding 4 tablespoon salt to make the brine, place pot in refrigerator for 5 hours or more until completely thawed. Remove giblets and neck bone from the cavities, rinse wash chicken inside and out under cold water, drain and pat dry with paper towels. Using 2 tablespoon cooking oil, rub oil all over chicken then generously rub in the mixed together seasoning to the outside skin and inner cavities.
Shape a raw potato to fit into the neck cavity and insert it to seal and trap in the vapor. Using a 12 oz. can of your favorite beer, pop-the-top and pour half the beer out of the can, add to the can, 2 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 teaspoon Mrs. Dash Seasoning Blend or a mixture of your own spices. Shake can well and insert the half empty can with mixture into the bottom cavity of the Chicken, arranging chicken so it remains standing in a roasting pan. Add 1 cup water to pan.
Variation; Instead of beer use lemon lime or root beer soda.
Roast uncovered in a roasting pan, preheat oven to 350-F and roast for 1-1/2 hours at 350-F then at 400-F for another 1/2 hour or until skin is crispy and meat thermometer temperature inserted in a thigh reaches 180-F.
Warning, when removing Chicken: Be careful not to spill the HOT beer and burn yourself! Gently pull apart the chicken to remove the can. If chicken is done it will break apart easily.
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Well one suggestion would be to put it in a roasting pan sprinkel on the spices you so desire. Basic ones being salt and pepper. Then put some carrots and potatoes and whatever else veggie you like, I stick some butter in the carcas and on the chicken and put a piece of foil on top. Stick it in the oven around 350 degrees. Every once and a while check on it I take the juices that have formed and baste the chicken and vegies with it.
My husband is a chef, and he makes this recipe....take the chicken and wash it well, take the stuff out the cavity.....then rub butter on it, all over....
Mix some bread cubes, and eggs, and milk...then add spices..we use lime pepper for this recipe.....then we stuff the bird....take some lemon and orange pieces...and place a few slices in the pot where you are cooking it...and add some juice to the top.....bake for about 2 hours ..on 325...or until the thing pops...but keep adding some water to the bottome so it wont burn fast.....this is really good.