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Chicken in a pot recipe was GREAT

RRP
RRP Posts: 26,451
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
Last week 3Pedals6Speeds started this thread shown below about a French method of cooking a chicken in a pot essentially in nothing more than it's own juices. I fixed it yesterday and that by far was the best chicken we have ever eaten! Extremely moist, extremely tasty and fall off the bone. The only thing different is a appearance of the skin as it does not brown much at all, but man-o-man was it tasty!
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,451
    BTW contrary to my response to that thread I left the bird whole and did not splat **** it as planned. Also I forewent the rosemary!

    Another note that recipe came from the Jan 2008 issue of Cook's Illustrated so I went back and read the article of how the author had marveled over this dish in France and decided how to reproduce it.
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    That sounds great. Did you cover the DO while cooking or leave the cover off?

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • Florida Grillin Girl
    Florida Grillin Girl Posts: 5,011
    I am going to make it. The disinterested egg people at my house should love it. I missed the first post so thanks for sharing. Oh, and I will be using the rosemary.
    Happily egging on my original large BGE since 1996... now the owner of 5 eggs. Call me crazy, everyone else does!
     
    3 Large, 1 Small, 1 well-used Mini
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  • YB
    YB Posts: 3,861
    Kaye put a 8# turkey breast in the crock pot to cook in its on juices this morning...I will let you know how it turns out.

    Larry
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,451
    Not only is the lid on it also has a sheet of aluminum foil on the pot first and then the lid so as to act as a gasket. Key in this cook was keeping all the natural juices inside. When all said and done that 5# yard bird produced over 1 cup of strained au jus. Rich and wonderful au jus I might add!
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  • 3Pedals6Speeds
    3Pedals6Speeds Posts: 439
    RRP - Glad to see it turned out as well for you as it did for us. How about the au jus, amazing or what?
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,451
    amazing is an understatement! The one thing I did do differently was instead of just peeling and trimming the 6 garlic cloves I also sliced each clove into 5 pieces thus exposing more surfaces than leaving them whole.
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  • VanEveryman
    VanEveryman Posts: 2

    The original recipe has the chicken browned first...did any of you do that, either on the grill or in the DO prior to covering? 

     

    PC

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  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    Freddie, Freddie....hello Freddie

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,451
    edited November 2013
    VanEveryman said:

    The original recipe has the chicken browned first...did any of you do that, either on the grill or in the DO prior to covering? 

     

    PC


    I did a double take...who's using my name and picture? LOL then I saw the date of that thread...just so happens that I fixed that chicken meal again last Sunday and it is soooooo delicious! The browning is done in the DO and it doesn't really brown the skin all that much, but by the end of the cook the skin has practically disappeared as if it has melted. Could it be browned on an egg first? I suppose, but this is one meal I prefer to cook inside by starting on the stove and then finishing in the oven. With the DO lid so tightly sealed I'm not sure what benefit cooking it on an egg would give. BTW once when our oven was on the fritz I made this using a pressure cooker and that worked well. I have also substituted Cornish game hens in this recipe which were also very good!
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  • Fred19Flintstone
    Fred19Flintstone Posts: 8,174
    By popular request...
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    THIS THREAD IS A ZOMBIE!!! IT IS OLD ENOUGH TO PURCHASE ALCOHOL.
    Flint, Michigan
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