Thursday, January 28, 2016

Roast chicken with 40 cloves of garlic

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To paraphrase a popular chick flick:

In winter, we eat chicken with garlic.

On pink plates.

Note: This recipe is super easy when you buy one of those huge containers of peeled garlic cloves from Costco (or whichever big-box store you frequent).



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Roasted Garlic Chicken
Chicken. Garlic. Oven. What else do you need?
Ingredients
  • 8 large chicken thighs, bone-in and skin on
  • 1 Tablespoon herbes de Provence, Italian herb mix, or any other dried herb mix you prefer
  • 1 cup fresh garlic cloves, peeled
  • 1 lemon
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • salt and pepper
Instructions
Heat the oven to 450 degrees. Spray a large roasting pan with nonstick cooking spray.Lay the chicken pieces in the pan, skin side up. Sprinkle them with the dried herb mix and scatter the garlic cloves around them. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice over the chicken. Put the lemon halves in the roasting pan. Drizzle the chicken with the olive oil, then shower it generously with salt and pepper.Turn the chicken pieces over so the skin side is down. Put the roasting pan in the oven. Set the timer for 15 minutes. (This step crisps the skin.)After 15 minutes, turn the heat down to 350 degrees. Bake another 40 minutes or until the chicken thighs are cooked through and very tender.Serve the chicken skin side up with the garlic cloves and pan juices poured over.
Details
Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Yield: 4 servings