Best Ruth Reichls Roast Chicken With Potatoes Onions Recipes

RUTH REICHL'S ROAST CHICKEN WITH POTATOES & ONIONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 deg F/200 deg Celsius.
• Wash chicken and pat dry. Remove and reserve any extra fat from inside the chicken. If there is no fat, use butter:.
• Very gently run your fingers between the breast and skin, from the neck, loosening the skin from the breast on both sides. Don't puncture the skin.
• Place the excess fat underneath the skin -- chop it up to spread evenly, if necessary. This way the chicken will baste itself.
• Puncture the lemon all over with a fork, and place inside the chicken.
• In a bowl, toss the potatoes, onion and garlic with olive oil so each piece is coated.
• Season the chicken with salt and pepper.
• (This is where I suggest something more, as few of us will find a genuinely "farm-raised" chicken. Use a good seasoning salt of your choice, and black pepper, as ordinary supermarket chickens can be very bland). Season well all over. (I would also season the cavity and then put in the lemon).
• Put the oil-coated veggies in a roasting pan and spread out. Season with salt and pepper.
• If you have a rack, put the chicken on it and jiggle things to fit over the potatoes and onion. Otherwise, just put the chicken right into the pan.
• Roast for about 1 hour (she says that, but I would roast it for not less than about 1 1/4 hours).
• Remove the pan from the oven and let rest for about 10 minutes. (I'd put it into a warming oven).
• Carve chicken into serving pieces, surround with the potatoes, onion and garlic, and squeeze the (baked) lemon over the top.

ROSEMARY ROASTED CHICKEN WITH POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Mix oil, and seasonings in a large bowl. Add chicken and potatoes; toss to coat.
• Line 15x10x1-inch baking pan with foil and spray with no-stick cooking spray.
• Arrange chicken and potatoes in single layer in pan.
• Roast in oven for 30 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and potatoes are tender, turning potatoes occasionally.

GRATIN DAUPHINOIS

Steps:

• Put a rack in middle of oven and preheat oven to 400°F Generously butter a 2 1/2- to 3-quart gratin dish or other shallow baking dish.
• Peel potatoes. Cut crosswise into 1/16-inch-thick slices with slicer and transfer to a 4-quart heavy saucepan. Add half-and-half, garlic, salt, and pepper and bring just to a boil over moderate heat.
• Pour potato mixture into buttered dish, distributing potatoes evenly. Sprinkle nutmeg and cheese evenly over top. Bake until potatoes are tender and top is golden brown, 35 to 45 minutes. Let stand for 15 minutes before serving.

ITALIAN OVEN-ROASTED CHICKEN AND POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
• Mix the potato chunks in a bowl with half the olive oil, half the parsley, and a generous amount of salt and pepper.
• Toss to coat well, then spread over the bottom of a large roasting pan large enough to hold all the potatoes in one layer.
• In the same bowl, mix the chicken parts with the remaining oil and parsley and more salt and pepper, again stirring to coat well.
• Arrange the chicken over the top of the potatoes, skin side down.
• Place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes, remove chicken pieces to a plate, stir the potatoes, and replace the chicken pieces, skin side up.
• Return to oven for an additional 30 minutes.
• The chicken is done when crisp and brown and the potatoes should be roasted to a fine golden color.

RUTH REICHL'S CHICKEN DIAVOLO

Steps:

• Make the chile oil: Chop jalapeño and serrano chiles and put them in a small saucepan with 3/4 cup olive oil. Add hot paprika and grind in a fair amount of black pepper. Steep over medium heat for about 15 minutes. Let sit overnight, or all day.
• Strain chile oil into a large bowl. Slice 2 lemons and add them to the bowl. Season with salt. Coat chicken with the oil, put in a zip-top bag and let it sit in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours or up to a day.
• Heat oven to 500. Heat a cast-iron skillet until it's quite hot (about 5 minutes). Meanwhile, remove the chicken from the chile oil and pat it dry. Sprinkle it with salt and shower it with pepper; you need a lot. Slick the bottom of the pan with olive oil and put the chicken, skin-side down, in the hot skillet. Cook until the skin is crisp and golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Turn the chicken skin-side up.
• Put the skillet in the oven and roast about 20 minutes, or until a thermometer registers 170 degrees in the thickest part of the thigh. Sprinkle with juice from half a lemon, shower with more pepper and allow to rest 10 minutes before serving.

ONION STUFFED ROAST CHICKEN WITH POTATOES

Steps:

• In a skillet, melt 1 T butter over medium heat.
• Add onion, 1/4 teaspoon salt and a pinch each of pepper and thyme; saute until onion is light brown (about 10 minutes), then remove from the skillet and let cool to room temperature.
• In small bowl combine remaining 7 tablespoons of butter, 1/4 teaspoon salt, a pinch of pepper, and remaining thyme.
• Using your fingers, gently loosen the breast, thigh and leg skin of the chicken: place in baking dish.
• Rub 4 tablespoons thyme butter under the skin and stuff the cavity with browned onion.
• Seal the cavity, rub skin with 1 tablespoon thyme butter, and arrange potatoes around chicken.
• Bake chicken at 400 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until juices run clear when the thigh is pierced.