Sunday, March 15, 2009

Radically Basic Roast Chicken


Ingredients-
1 roasting chicken (free range, organic chicken preferably)
salt
pepper

Directions:
preheat oven to 400°F

1. rinse chicken, pat dry (very dry)
2. truss legs and wings with butchers twine
3. salt and pepper chicken (liberally)
4. place chicken on V-Rack in a roasting pan and bake for around 45 minutes to one hour. Use an instant read thermometer to test. When the breast meat is 165 °F the chicken is done.

serve with anything you like.

Tonight we had brown rice, steamed asparagus and steamed carrots with our Chicken.

2 comments:

  1. mmmm, there is little better than a simply roasted chicken. have you read simon hopkinson's books?

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  2. no I have not. I suppose I should! :)

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