Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours
Roast Chicken for Les Paresseux
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Cuisine: French | Course Type: Main Courses
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Recipe Reviews
Moist flavorful chicken with crispy skin and the special added bonus bread! This was terrific and is now my go to recipe. Let it rest as Dorie suggests - propped up, tail in the air, on a bowl to allow the juices to redistribute back into the breast meat.
cadfael from , NS
I really like this "lazy" recipe. For me the key is in having at least the full amount of herbs and seasonings and then for the bread to be an excellent sturdy and flavourful slice. I always cook with the vegetables. My grand daughter and I savour this as the cooks treat.
Queezle_Sister from Salt Lake City, UT
A simple and very delicious roast chicken. The cook is advised to put a slice or two of bread under the chicken, in the roasting pan. This holds the chicken above the juices, and becomes a delicious snack after roasting. We used carrots, potatoes, and an onion, nearly the end of this summer's CSA.
Two options are presented to the cook for finishing off the chicken. You can either leave it in the pan, or, like I did, put it on the cutting board with the breast down (and tail up). I selected the second choice, as this was supposed to get juice back into the breast meat. Indeed, the chicken was perfectly cooked, and the breast was moist.
The vegetables were really awesome - again perfectly cooked.
I rate this a "4", as I'm hoping to test all of Dorrie's roast chicken recipes, and am leaving room in the rating scale for something totally awesome.
The ingredient list calls for 2/3 C dry white wine, but I only found one place where 2-3T were suggested. I think the rest was intended for the cook!
By the way, after reading AJ's review of chicken breasts, and her endoresement of Costco's organic chicken breasts (which we do not have here), I purchased costco's whole organic chicken, which I used here.
That bit of bread under the chicken -- its good enough to just eat that (and toss the chicken).
(edited 31st October 2011) (1) comment (3) useful
lalakelsey from Houston,
This is a good, easy roasted chicken with lots of flavor. Good weeknight meal. Also a perfect meal to take to a friend who needs help with meals.
(edited 10th November 2016) (0) comment (2) useful
soupereasy from Wanaque, N.J
This was a really moist chicken with a nice crispy skin. The baguette slices were a wonderful snack for me.
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