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How to Roast a Chicken - by Nancy Taylor Robson

How to Roast a Chicken - by Nancy Taylor Robson

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    fineartdaily's Notes: For those conflicted souls who suffer from cooking phobia yet want delicious, comforting and economical meals, roasted chicken is the perfect place to start taking the cure. Roasted chicken...

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Serves 4

  1. Take the neck and giblets out of the cavity.

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  2. Wash chicken inside and out, pat dry and put into a roasting pan.

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  3. Stuff cavity loosely with half an onion, one carrot, celery, celery tops, thyme, salt and pepper.

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  4. Shake Adobo seasoning over outside of chicken.

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  5. Surround chicken with the rest of the vegetables.

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  6. Cover roasting pan securely.

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  7. Roast at 350°F for approximately 20 minutes per pound of chicken or until the juices of the joint between thigh and breast run clear when poked with a knife.

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  8. Joy of Cooking or any other decent basic cookbook will tell you how long to cook it depending on size.

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  9. After supper, take the remaining meat off the bones – it takes maybe ten minutes — and store it in the fridge.

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  10. Then use the carcass plus every bit of leftover skin, bones, and pan juices to make rich chicken stock.

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  11. You can freeze stock and pull it out when someone is either ailing or blue to make what my family calls Jewish penicillin -- homemade chicken noodle soup with onion, celery and carrot.

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  12. It works like magic to cure what ails you

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1 Comment on How to Roast a Chicken - by Nancy Taylor Robson

Mrs Reply

What a beautiful illustration - leftovers and all! I agree - it's the meal that keeps on giving.

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