any chance you would share a copy of your roast chicken recipe?
trying to get my wife to throw/glaze a chicken cooker; having a ready recipe might add just the incentive obviously needed to motivate her to make one for smoking on the kamado
besides, without a recipe, i won't know how to use it
Here's what my wife does:
- 4lb chicken - rinse, dry well
- stick cast iron skillet into oven and set to 440-450
- rub chicken with a bit of olive oil. season well with kosher salt and black pepper
- in cavity put a few garlic pieces, some herbs tied with string (rosemary and thyme for sure, i add savory sometimes if its in the mix I buy) and a lemon cut in half
- truss the chicken (tie the legs together)
- when oven reaches temperature, take out cast iron, put 6 cloves of garlic in circle and plop down chicken
- cook for 1 hr, with thighs facing back of oven (adjust time if bigger chicken, but i usually try to get close to 4lb)
Here's what I do:
- 4lb-5.25lb chicken - rinse, dry well. 63 minutes at 445 for ~4 lb, ~75m for 5.25, same temp.
Preheat oven to 455
with the cast iron in it, then:
- brush olive oil onto chicken, bottom side up at firrst.
- Seasoning: MSG, truffle salt, pepper, a faint sprinkling of paprika and chili powder (not hot chilis - the dark 'chili powder' you can get in supermarkets, usually a mix)
- In cavity: several garlic pieces, garden spices if you have them (basil, rosemary, cilantro....but mostly rosemary sprigs), 1/4" of thin sliced onion on top, half a lemon on top.
-Turn it over. Brush the side that faces up (drumsticks facing up) with olive oil. Same spices.
- Trust the chicken.
- when oven reaches temperature, take out cast iron, put 6 more cloves of garlic at points between chicken and wall of pan, ie, front and back. If they aren't touching the bottom they don't really burn, but roast. Tasty.
- Put in so ends of drumsticks face back of oven.
- When taken out, pour the fat/stuff from pan into a container, then pour some over your portion. Make gravy if you want but I don't bother.
The garlic, you eat as you wish.
It's remarkably simple, and wonderful if you love the flavor of roast chicken.