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Your Best Roast Chicken

March 4, 2010

Wishbone Roast Chicken with Herb Butter

Wishbone Roast Chicken with Herb Butter by monkeymom

This recipe with its unassuming 5 ingredients caught our eye for its use of simple techniques to achieve a flavorful bird with crisp skin. Monkeymom has thought a lot about roasting chicken: she has you tuck shallots and butter under the skin, season the bird and then let it rest in the fridge, uncovered, for 8 hours. The butter keeps the meat moist and the air-drying in the fridge ensures a crackly skin. She also came up with an ingenious way to replicate the verticle roasting in "beer can chicken," in which the chicken sits on top of a beer can while it grills. For her brilliant adaptation, she sets the chicken on the tube part of a tube pan. The verticle positioning allows the fat to drip off the bird while it cooks, and we think it does a great job of helping to cook the bird evenly, as every part is equally exposed to the oven heat. And did we mention that the finished bird is then served with an herb butter? Herb butter gets us every time. - A&M

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This dish calls for a low-maintenence trip to the grocery store.

Misoyaki Roast Chicken with Shoyu Onion Sauce

Misoyaki Roast Chicken with Shoyu Onion Sauce by timWuNotWoo

Yes, timWuNotWoo shoots and edits our videos. Yes, he's a friend. And yes, he makes a mean roast chicken. In fact, we've never tasted chicken quite like this. The red miso and mirin marinade permeates the bird inside and out, giving it an addictive, sweet and savory laquered skin. The simple onion sauce, which consists of butter, onions and garlic, soy sauce, mirin, miso and more butter, is an extra bonus, perfect for drizzling over the tender meat; it is salty, so you may want to use a lower sodium soy sauce and miso to taste. Do make sure to scrape off as much of the marinade as possible before you roast the chicken -- it will just blacken otherwise. - A&M

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Comments (3)Add yours

monkeymom 4 months ago: It is surreal (and thrilling!) to see Amanda and Merrill cooking exactly what I cooked just last week. Herb butter looked exactly the same! And your kitchen visitor is adorable...looks like she is taking notes!
lastnightsdinner 4 months ago: Two delicious-looking finalists - I don't know how I'll decide, but I'm tempted to try them both this week!
CatherineJagers 4 months ago: Delicious photos!

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Your Best Roast Chicken

Wishbone Roast Chicken with Herb Butter

Misoyaki Roast Chicken with Shoyu Onion Sauce

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