Spatchcocked Crispy Happy Chicken With Rich Orange Sauce

Spatchcocked Crispy Happy Chicken With Rich Orange Sauce

środa, 19 lutego 2014

Spatchcocked Crispy Happy Chicken With Rich Orange Sauce

Time: 1 hrs 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 (3 lb) chicken (Butterflied See note above, discard any lumps of fat,wash and towel dry, loosen the skin from the fl)

Directions

• 1 Chicken:.
• 2 Mix salt, pepper, garlic, chili powder, thyme, fennel and cumin.
• 3 Rub chicken under skin and all over the chicken with all of the spice mixture; cover and marinade in refrigerator for 4-24 hours.
• 4 Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• 5 Heat heavy large cast iron pan over medium high heat, add oil, placing chicken skin side down immediately place a very heavy pan or foil covered bricks on chicken and cook (without moving the chicken) until the skin is a golden brown (check with a tongs) till very crisp about 15 minutes.
• 6 Orange Sauce:.
• 7 Meanwhile melt butter in a medium hot pan; add and saute onions for 3 minutes add garlic, ginger, brown sugar, water, orange juice and zest, lemon juice, rice vinegar, and soy sauce; bring to a boil simmer for 5 minutes.
• 8 Mix together cornstarch and 2 tablespoons cold water or Grand Mariner making a slurry; add the slurry to the sauce whisking all the time to keep the sauce smooth; reduce heat to medium low; and simmer, about 5 minutes.
• 9 Remove the bricks and turn chicken skin side up and finish roasting for 20-25 minutes. Until a thermometer inserted in the thigh registers 160-165 degrees when juices run completely clear, and the skin should be a gorgeous golden-brown, and exceedingly crispy.
• 10 Remove chicken and let rest on a cutting board.
• 11 De fat the pan drippings.
• 12 Add the Orange Sauce to the pan juices. Strain the sauce.
• 13 Pour sauce into a gravy boat drizzle some on a platter and place the chicken on the sauce with crispy crust up.
• 14 Serving immediately with additional sauce and Longevity noodles or rice.