Best Roast Chicken With Savoury Sauce Recipes

ROASTED QUARTERED CHICKEN WITH HERB SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Pat chicken dry with paper towels. Rub chicken with 1 tablespoon oil; season with salt and pepper. Arrange, skin-side up, on a rimmed baking sheet. Roast until golden and a thermometer inserted into thickest part of breast (without touching bone) registers 160 degrees, about 30 minutes.
• Transfer chicken to a plate. Pour off and discard fat from baking sheet; return chicken to sheet. Whisk together remaining 1/4 cup oil, vinegar, parsley, garlic, and pepper flakes in a bowl. Season with salt. Spoon sauce over chicken and let stand 10 minutes before serving with accumulated pan juices and sauce.

SAVORY RUBBED ROAST CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a small bowl, mix the first eight ingredients., Pat chicken dry and place on a rack in a roasting pan, breast side up. Rub seasoning mixture over the outside and inside of chicken. Place onion inside cavity. Tuck wings under chicken; tie drumsticks together., Roast 2 to 2-1/2 hours or until a thermometer inserted in thickest part of thigh reads 170°-175°. (Cover loosely with foil if chicken browns too quickly.) Remove chicken from oven; tent with foil. Let stand 15 minutes before carving.

PAN-ROASTED CHICKEN IN CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Season the chicken parts aggressively with salt. Set a Dutch oven or large, high-sided sauté pan over high heat, and swirl the olive oil into it. When it is shimmering and about to smoke, turn the heat to medium high, and working in batches, add the chicken to the pan, skin-side down, setting the pieces aside to rest when they are golden and crisp on one side and just kissed by the heat on the other, approximately 30 minutes for all the meat.
• Discard all but 2 tablespoons of fat in the pan, then return it to medium-high heat and add the mushrooms, tossing to coat them with fat. Cook, stirring often, until the mushrooms just begin to soften, approximately 3-4 minutes, then remove the pan from the heat. Add the Cognac, and carefully ignite it with a match, or simply cook it on very low heat until the alcohol has evaporated and the mushrooms are glossy.
• Scrape the mushrooms to the sides of the pan, then add to it the chicken pieces, arranged in a single layer if possible. Pour 1 to 1 1/2 cups of chicken stock around the chicken. It should rise about halfway up each piece. Lower heat to medium, allow the mixture to come to a low simmer, then put a lid on the pan and allow the mixture to cook slowly until the meat has cooked through, approximately 15 minutes.
• Remove the lid from the pan, and transfer the chicken pieces to a platter to rest. Turn the heat to medium high, and allow the chicken stock to reduce by 1/3, then add the heavy cream, and stir to incorporate. Let this mixture simmer for a minute or 2 until it starts to thicken, then add the Madeira, and swirl again to combine.
• Continue cooking the sauce until it can enrobe the back of a spoon, approximately 2-3 minutes more, then stir in the butter, crème fraîche and chopped savory and stir to combine. Turn the heat off, add the tarragon, stir one more time and then return the chicken pieces to the pan. Spoon some sauce over the chicken, sprinkle with the parsley and serve.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH SAVOURY SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C. Carefully loosen the skin over the breast of the chicken and ease a slice or two of the prosciutto and sprig of rosemary under the skin to cover each breast. Choose the fattiest parts of the prosciutto, as the idea is for it to baste the breast meat and keep it from drying out too much. Chop the remaining prosciutto and put it in the cavity of the chicken with the onion, sage and the rest of the rosemary. Use wooden cocktail sticks to close the cavity.
• Choose a baking dish that will just hold the chicken comfortably, drizzle the base with 1 tbsp of the oil and put in the chicken, breast side up. Pour over the remaining oil and season thoroughly. Roast for 11⁄4 hours, basting from time to time with the white wine, until the juices from the chicken have no trace of blood in them when the thigh joint is pierced with a knife.
• While the chicken is roasting, start the sauce. Tip the garlic, parsley leaves, livers and anchovies into the bowl of your food processor with the soppressa or salami, if using. Whizz until everything, including the parsley leaves, seems amalgamated.
• When cooked, lift the chicken on to a carving board, cover with foil and let it rest for 15 minutes. Pour the olive oil from the juices left in the roasting pan into a small saucepan - you should have about 4-5 tbsp. Put the pan over a low heat and gradually add the liver mixture, stirring to blend with the oil. Cook, stirring continuously until the sauce changes from a raw to a cooked colour. Pour in the lemon juice, stir, then add the white wine, and when that has evaporated, add the vinegar. After 10-12 minutes cooking, taste and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
• Return the sauce to the cleaned food processor bowl, give it all a second whiz and return to the pan. Back on the heat, continue to stir and cook the sauce, adding water, a little at a time, until you achieve a velvety texture and a thick pouring consistency. Keep the sauce warm over a pan of simmering hot water while you joint the chicken.
• Discard the backbone, carve the legs into thighs and drumsticks, and cut each breast into two, so diners get a bit of each. Discard the flavourings from inside the cavity. Add half the chopped parsley and lemon zest to the sauce and pour into a serving bowl, scatter with the rest of the parsley and lemon zest and serve with the chicken.

ROASTED CHICKEN WITH FISH-SAUCE BUTTER

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450 degrees. Pat the chicken dry with paper towels and season lightly with salt and pepper. (The fish-sauce butter is plenty salty, so don't overdo the salt here.) Arrange the chicken skin-side up on a sheet pan and drizzle the oil over the chicken skin, coating it evenly. Roast until the chicken is light gold and the sheet pan is pooling with hot, rendered chicken fat, about 25 minutes.
• Take the sheet pan out of the oven, scatter the bread around the chicken and toss gently to coat in the chicken fat. Place the pan back in the oven and roast until the chicken is golden, crispy and sizzling (you'll hear it), about 15 minutes.
• While the chicken roasts, combine the brown sugar, fish sauce and lemon juice in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook, occasionally swirling the pan or stirring the sauce with a wooden spoon, until bubbling vigorously and the mixture has reduced by about half, 2 to 3 minutes. This part is fun: Turn off the heat and add the butter, constantly swirling the pan or stirring with a wooden spoon, until all of the butter has melted and incorporated into the fish sauce mixture.
• To serve, scatter the cilantro all over the chicken and bread and spoon some of the fish-sauce butter over each chicken thigh, reserving some to add to each plate for dipping the chicken and croutons while eating (which is divine).

SAVORY ROASTED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Place chicken on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Carefully loosen the skin above the breast meat. Combine the onion salt, thyme, savory, orange zest and pepper; rub half of the herb mixture under the loosened skin. Rub chicken skin with oil; sprinkle with remaining herb mixture., Bake at 375° until a thermometer inserted in thickest part of thigh reads 170°-175°, 1-1/2 to 2 hours. Let stand for 10-15 minutes. Remove skin before carving. Skim fat and thicken pan juices for gravy if desired.