Cooking a whole chicken? what else to do with it?

Phate

Phate

Phate

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Hi all,

Most weeks I cook a whole chicken from Tescos, when cooked I allow it to cool then strip and carve it then mix the pieces with pasta and salad and bung it in a container, this is then lunch for me and my sister for the week.

The chickens are typically 1.5kgs and take roughly 90mins to cook in the oven, I'm wondering if theres anything else I can do to the chicken to change/improve the taste (it tastes damn good anyway)

Maybe season it? marinate it..something?

I'm not sure, I'm pretty new to cooking and experimenting so please fully explain any suggestions :) - Spicy or sweet, whatever flavour really, just something so its not completely bland chicken afterwards! (even if it does taste good anyway)

Many Thanks,
Jake
 
Buying my chicken tonight, going to give the beer can method a go :)

Going to do the same method as described but use Grolsh as my cooking beer of choice!
 
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Right boys its in the oven! My first chicken, arse-beer style....doesn't sound very appetising does it :p

In the rub I added in chillis :) - Be good to see what its like :D
 
Phate said:
Right boys its in the oven! My first chicken, arse-beer style....doesn't sound very appetising does it :p

In the rub I added in chillis :) - Be good to see what its like :D
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I can report back this is definately the way to go!

The meat is much juicier, much more moist too, more taste to it.


Next time I'll be trying a few different things, I got the rub correct, the skin turned out nice and crispy (how you want it ;)) although next time I'll be more thorough with it and add more to it...or potentially marinate the meat first to give some built in flavour...more experimentation needed :) - You could smell/taste the rosemary and lemon in it from the boiled beer though, may try it with Cider next time :D
 
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