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Cook the Book: Thomas Keller's One-Pot Roast Chicken
Posted by Caroline Russock, April 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM
[Photograph: Caroline Russock]
Roasting a chicken is one of the most indispensable skills that a cook can hone, and no one has been championing the simple joys of a roast chicken more than Thomas Keller. So it's not surprising Keller chose to contribute a recipe for One-Pot Roast Chicken to In The Green Kitchen by Alice Waters, a collection of essential skills for home cooks.
While this recipe is pretty basic, Keller includes a few tips for optimal chicken-roasting. He removes the wishbone from the top of the chicken breast, which makes a world of difference when it comes to carving. He also trusses the chicken, binding the legs and tucking the wing tips under; this plumps up the breast and makes for a more evenly roasted chicken.
Once the chicken is tied and ready to go, it's placed on a bed of vegetables and herbs and left to roast undisturbed until it is cooked through. For those of you who are never quite sure when your chicken is truly finished, Keller offers up a great tip to check for doneness; Insert a knife into the leg joint and if the juices run clear, your chicken is ready, if they are pink, a few more minutes of roasting is in order.
Roasting chicken on a bed of vegetables makes for a full meal in one pot or pan. The vegetables soak up all the butter and chicken juices and caramelize beautifully. If you want to get fancy, you can dress a simple salad and throw in a loaf of crusty bread for good measure, but really this chicken is pretty much perfect on its own.
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One-Pot Roast Chicken
- serves 4 -
Adapted from In The Green Kitchen by Alice Waters.
Ingredients
1 three-pound chicken
Salt and fresh-ground black pepper
3 potatoes, peeled and thickly sliced
2 carrots, peeled and thickly sliced
2 onions, peeled and quartered
2 celery stalks, thickly sliced
4 large shallots, peeled
Fennel, squash, turnips, parsnips, or other vegetables (optional)
2 bay leaves
2 or 3 thyme sprigs
2 to 3 tablespoons butter
Procedure
1. First prepare the chicken. To remove the wishbone at the top of the breast, use a small knife to scrape along the bone to expose it, then insert the knife and run it along the bone, separating it from the flesh. Use your fingers to loosen it further, grasp the tip of the wishbone, and pull it out. Tuck the wing tips back and under the neck.
2. Tying the chicken plumps the breast up and brings the legs into position for even roasting. Cut a length of cotton string. With the chicken on its back, slip the string under the tail and bring the ends up over the legs to form a figure eight. Loop over the end of each leg and draw the strings tight to bring the legs together. Draw the string back under the legs and wings on either side of the neck. Pull tight, wrap one end around the neck, and tie off the two ends. Salt the chicken evenly all around. Coarse salt has a good texture of large grains that makes it easy to calibrate how much salt you are putting on the chicken; sprinkle it from up high, so that it falls like snow. Season liberally with fresh-ground pepper.
3. Preheat the oven to 375°F, put all the vegetables and herbs together in the bottom of a large, heavy ovenproof pot, and season with salt and pepper. Set the chicken on top, dot with the butter, and roast uncovered for 45 to 60 minutes (or longer), depending on the size of the chicken. It is done when the leg joint is pierced with a knife and the juices run clear, not pink.
4. Let the chicken rest for a few minutes before carving, and serve family-style with all of the caramelized vegetables and juices from the pot on a platter and the chicken pieces on top.
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Sue Lowden, the likely Republican nominee against Harry Reid, is doubling down on her widely ridiculed proposal that people should haggle and barter with doctors to bring down prices.
Appearing yesterday on Nevada Newsmakers, Lowden said:
I’m telling you that this works. You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor, they would say I’ll paint your house. I mean, that’s the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I’m not backing down from that system.
That's right. “Bring a chicken to the doctor.” Seriously. We're not making this up. Watch for yourself:
Clearly, Lowden's absurd statement is going to bite her over and over again during the course the campaign — it's a huge gift to Harry Reid. Really, the only question Lowden's statement raises is this: how would you mock her health care plan?
Some ideas that I've heard tossed around by others who are far wittier than me:
- You know, I bet most modern doctors would prefer a KFC meal to a live chicken. Market efficiencies are not such that killing your own chicken really makes sense anymore.
- It seems not to have occurred to her that people brought chickens and offered to paint houses in the olden days because EVEN IN THE OLDEN DAYS, PEOPLE COULDN'T AFFORD THEIR DAMN HEALTH CARE.
- It'll never work … some asshole will try to game the situation — bring a snake and say, “but it tastes like chicken.”
- “I'm telling you that this works. As an employer, having your employees barter a chicken beats paying for health care. I'm serious about this. Doctors like chickens.”
- Question: Do turkeys count?
- Oh, well, in the olden days, yeah. That's a great health care plan, then! You give me a chicken, and I'll put leeches on your face. Deal?
- I've been picturing granny after her broken hip operation. Should she decide to give up food or climb a ladder and paint?
- Now mentally picturing an image of an old, sick person in a hospital bed with a doctor standing in the doorway holding a chicken by the feet. Doctor says: Give me that chicken, or I'll expect you at the house by 7:00 a.m. I'll be nice and provide the paint and brushes.
- Plus no chicken means no eggs. And no eggs means no capital gains taxes. Tax deduction!
Please join the fun — add your ideas in the comments!
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Even Texas cannot get enough oil out of the ground to supply its own needs, and is dependent on imported petroleum for much of what it uses.
That the two largest oil-producing states in the lower 48 cannot produce enough crude to even supply their own needs illustrates how important it is for us to develop alternative energy sources.
Broil More Efficiently by Leaving the Oven Door Ajar
Broiling is a great way to semi-recreate the effects of outdoor cooking inside. As simple as broiling is, you can still muck it up by keeping your oven closed too tightly.
Over at Home Ec 101, a home and cooking centered blog, a reader wrote in asking whether or not keeping your oven cracked actually does anything. They responded by clarifying the process:
Broiling is a specific method for applying heat to food. When a recipe directs food to be broiled, it is expected for the item to be exposed, relatively closely to a source of dry, intense heat. For many models, the best results are achieved with the door left ajar a couple of inches. In fact, most models have a stop that makes this easy.
If you leave your oven closed up when broiling you end up baking the item instead. When the door is closed moisture can't escape and the oven reaches equilibrium faster which will kick off the heating element and put an end to that intense, dry heat you're looking for. Check out the full article at the link below for more information. If you have your own broiling wisdom to share, let's hear about it in the comments.
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