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yet another take on roast chicken

11/10/2012

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there was a time when many of my peers referred to me as the 'pork guy'. but quite honestly my heart has always considered chicken #1. i mean look at these gems... drool material for sure.
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have been a fan of the high temp whole chicky roast for some time now. oil rubbed and seasoned, 450-475 till nicely browned (basted once), turn off...
...oven and leave the bird in there for another half hour or until that luscious leg comes off with a wiggle...

then last week i came across a misplaced pair of fiskars scissors. they reminded me of a old saveur mag article on south east asian street food. a cool pic of the dude grilling chicken halves on a grate over a open fire. it's a viable way of prepping/cooking chicken in the oven too, but you really need some heavy duty scissors or shears to cut the bird in half. it's a circumnavigation snip snip around the body. split the breasts and when you get to the chicken's back it's like heading north from miami, cutting around either side of florida. you then have the option of discarding the back (as i've done emotionally with florida).

the roasted halves cook faster of course. and they render more fat yet less juices. can only speculate why but it really doesn't matter. end result is juicy meat. another helper is slightly raising up the halves off the roasting pan with a bed of fragrant herbs and onions. in this case scallions and sage.
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