Favorite Food ~Roasted ChickenBy Kim Lewandowski

CAA 100 Essentials for Success

September 10, 2012

Why I Like Roasted Chicken

Mild taste is a blank canvas

It’s versatile

Roasting concentrates flavor

Use drippings for sauces, gravies and stocks

Lots of ways to use leftovers

Origins of Chicken and Roasting

Chicken was first used and domesticated in the Indus Valley, in present-day Pakistan and northwest India, around 3000BC

Roasting meat was one of the first ways humans began to cook food

What Is Roasted Chicken?

Add heat till cooked to safe temperature

Ways to roast meat and poultry: Over an open fire

In an oven

My Favorite Method: Wine-Butt Chicken

Fill a can halfway with flavorful liquid

Season the chicken under and over the skin

Grill for 1-1.5 hours, till thigh meat measures 160°F

What I Like to Do With Roasted Chicken – Part 1 Roast in oven or on grill, carve and eat for dinner

What I Like to Do With Roasted Chicken – Part 2 Remove meat from carcass, make stock

What I Like to Do With Roasted Chicken – Part 3 Use it in leftovers - for example:

• Chicken salad

• Chicken and cheese quesadillas

• Chicken fried rice

• Chicken á la king

• Chicken and vegetable soup

• Chicken tacos

• Chicken sandwiches

• Chicken Alfredo

• Chicken tortilla soup