Thursday, February 10, 2011

Kaoru: Chicken Under a Brick


I got a bit of help from my husband on this chicken. And I’m truly grateful because there was some chopping off of feet involved (our pan was too small), chicken juice everywhere, a lot of heavy lifting, not to mention the smoke detector that went off in the middle of cooking. Oh, and bless his heart, he cleaned everything up after dinner too.

The chicken was good – amazing chicken texture, perfectly crispy skin, visually arresting and incredibly juicy. We enjoyed it. But there was something missing, je ne sai quoi. Depth of flavor? Complexity? Should I have marinated it longer than 45 minutes or salted more liberally?

Since I purchased a 4 lb chicken, we had tons of leftovers. The following day, I reheated some chicken and drizzled some soy sauce on top (did the trick) and ate it with rice. Yummy!

3 Comments:

Blogger Elaine said...

What kind of pan did u use? It looks like it has 2 handles??

10 February, 2011 23:54  
Blogger Kaoru said...

It's a big All-Clad saute pan with two handles. In the photo it looks like the pan has two normal handles (don't know why), but one is a normal handle (like a stick) & the other is actually a loop handle.

11 February, 2011 13:05  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

it seems this recipe lacks umami flavor. which explains why it tasted much better with shoyu drizzled on it!

15 February, 2011 15:35  

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