I purchase whole chickens (when they are on super sale) together with freeze them. Just remember, it can take 2-3 days to thaw a big chicken (in the refrigerator) thence brand certain you plan ahead.
I used to bake chickens whole (like you lot would a turkey), but I was GROSSED OUT by the unappetizing gray-ish colored juices that pooled within of the empty chicken cavity when it baked (shudder).
To remedy that, I started splitting the raw chicken opened upwards by removing the backbone, then I laid it out apartment to bake. Not only did this eliminate the gray-ish juices, but it reduced the baking fourth dimension together with gave me lots of crispy skin.
Start off alongside a whole, thawed, three to four pound chicken. For me, this first step is easiest to exercise inward my kitchen sink for to a greater extent than or less reason. Working alongside the backbone side facing you, role abrupt kitchen shears to cutting downwards along 1 side of the chicken backbone, then exercise the same to the other side of the backbone. You tin too exercise this mensuration alongside a abrupt knife, but it is safer together with easier alongside kitchen shears. Remove the backbone together with discard or save for stock.
Once the backbone is removed, rinse the chicken nether mutual frigidity running water, then blot dry out alongside newspaper towels.
At this stage, the chicken will not want to "lay flat" similar inward the photo below. To teach it to exercise that, plough the chicken over thence you lot tin come across the bones; brand a SMALL cutting at the top-center of the thorax os together with flex that os alongside your hands, at in 1 lawsuit it volition easily lay out flat. Sounds complicated (but it isn't) together with it just takes a 2d to do.
Lay the chicken (skin side up) inward a roasting pan and rotate the thigh-leg share thence that they lay out apartment and to either side of the chicken breast, (click on this photograph to teach a meliorate look).
Ready for the Oven
Brush the chicken peel lightly alongside butter together with sprinkle with a little onion pulverization together with dried (and crushed) rosemary (see banking concern annotation below) then generously sprinkle everything with common salt together with pepper.
Surround the chicken alongside your favorite veggies if you lot similar (but non necessary). I role potatoes, carrots, chopped celery together with onions.
TIP: If you lot direct maintain a dainty large roasting pan, teach out out the veggies together with bake TWO of these fatty hens at the same time. You'll direct maintain plenty chicken for dinner AND sandwiches, salads, quick dinners, etc. for the whole week, non to lift lots of broth for gravy!!
Bake, uncovered, in pre-heated 400° oven for xxx minutes. After xxx minutes, reduce the oven to 375° together with bake for 1 more hour.
Remove chicken from oven together with spoon pan juices over the chicken. Cover loosely alongside foil together with allow the meat residue for 5-10 minutes. This "rest time" assures your chicken meat volition move really tender together with juicy.
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NOTE: The backbone that you lot removed makes GREAT chicken stock. Save them inward the freezer together with when you have several, throw them into a crockpot alongside 2 quarts of water, to a greater extent than or less chopped onion, celery, together with a few peppercorns. Let it pose upwards on depression all night. The adjacent morning, strain the bones together with bits out of the stock together with allow it chill thence you lot tin skim off whatever fat. You tin either role this stock right away or freeze it. It is worlds meliorate than canned chicken broth.
NOTE: Rosemary goes wonderfully alongside baked chicken, it form of tastes similar stuffing to me. It looks similar difficult pino needles, thence I trounce mine upwards earlier I sprinkle it on the raw chicken.
ENJOY !!
ANYTHING that touches raw chicken (from your hands, to utensils, to cutting boards, to dish towels together with sinks) needs to move washed thoroughly alongside warm soapy H2O earlier you lot touch ANYTHING else. This is VERY important.
ANYTHING that touches raw chicken (from your hands, to utensils, to cutting boards, to dish towels together with sinks) needs to move washed thoroughly alongside warm soapy H2O earlier you lot touch ANYTHING else. This is VERY important.
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