high-roast chicken and potatoes

guzzijason

Thought I'd post some pics of my 500-degree chicken method (tonight's dinner). Essentially, this is my adaptation of the Cook's Illustrated "high-roast" method.

Step 1: put a layer of cut up fingerling potatoes in the bottom of a foiled roasting pan. I coat them in olive oil, salt, pepper, various herbs and minced garlic:



Step 2: place chicken on a slotted broiler pan, over to top of the potatoes. I've got some butter worked under the skin, which is then coated in canola oil and seasoned. Yeah... I roast the back too, as it ends up in a stock pot with the rest of the roasted carcass eventually:



Step 3: Roast at 500-degrees, plate setter in, legs up. Butter/fat from the chicken drips through the slots in the pan and provides additional flavor for the potatoes in the bottom of the pan:



Plated: The chicken is great, but I think the potatoes are my favorite part! Served with some grilled radicchio that was marinated in a balsamic vinaigrette:



Yum!

__Jason

DynaGreaseball

I agree, Jason. Those roasted chicken bones make a much better stock, and the back is big enough to make a difference.

Dut

Looks great and I'll definitely try that one.

Are there other pictures? The only one I see is the final product pic.

guzzijason

Strange - when I posted the original message, there were 4 separate photos in it, but now I only see the last one. Anyone else only seeing one photo? If so, I'll try to repost...

__Jason

guzzijason

Something odd going on with my photos... I'll try reposting in separate messages.

__Jason

guzzijason

eenie meenie

Jason,

Can only see one photo...........it looks great!

eenie meenie

guzzijason

OK, I fixed it! I've posted a million photos on a million different forums, but I'm still getting used to how the Egg Head Forum operates!

__Jason

eenie meenie

Jason,

It looks absolutely yummy. I am a big CI fan as well. I'll have to try this.

eenie meenie

Pyro

The originator of this method was Barbara Kafka. You are right about the potatoes -the chicken is wonderful, but they are even better. If you get even a small portion of them to the table, you are an exemplary example of self-control.

Ross in Ventura

Jason,
Good job, Looks real appetizing.
Ross

crawdad

It's time for yardbird again. I love chicken and those taters have to be good.