{"id":75,"date":"2009-06-17T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T21:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2009\/06\/almost-fool-proof-chicken.html"},"modified":"2009-06-17T21:35:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T21:35:27","slug":"almost-fool-proof-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2009\/06\/almost-fool-proof-chicken.html","title":{"rendered":"Almost fool-proof chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I was a vegetarian for over 25 years, I sure do love chicken. We keep kosher in a town where there is no kosher butcher, and sometimes the only Empire available is a whole chicken, which is great for soup<\/a>, but trickier to cook in the oven, at least for me – I often end up under or overcooking it.
\n\"clayI have finally landed on a fool-proof way of preparing whole chicken to recommend, although I must warn you that it requires the purchase of a new tool. I have a very small kitchen, and am not one to load up on extra gadgets, especially if I’m likely to want two of them – one for dairy and one for meat. But I guarantee you that a clay pot<\/a> is worth the investment, even if all you were going to do was cook chicken in it. \u00a0The chicken comes out impossibly moist and tender – falling off the bone, as they say. (Don’t they?)
\nEvery clay pot recipe begins by soaking the pot in cold water for at least 15 minutes. For chicken, I like to lay some carrots and or\/halved onions on the bottom of the pot, so the chicken doesn’t end up soaking in its own, copious, grease. Then I stuff some flavors in the cavity – tonight it was half a lemon, 6 cloves of garlic and 2 sprigs of rosemary. Rub a little olive oil on the skin, salt and pepper, and place the chicken in the pot. Cover it with the top of the clay pot, and place it in a cold oven. Turn the oven to 400 and check on the chicken (if it’s around 3.5 pounds) in about an hour. When the temperature on a meat thermometer is up to about 150, I like to remove the lid of the pot so that the chicken can brown a little, but not so long that the meat has a chance to dry out. Remove when the thermometer hits 165.
\nOh, is this good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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