Roasted Chicken with Bacon Cover
YumRoasted Chicken with Bacon Cover : Lattice covered chicken; simple to make and packed with smoky flavoures.
When it comes to meat, chicken and turkey are first on our list. Chicken prepared this way, with thin smoked bacon slices ( Guanciale like ) tastes amazingly since it gives smoky flavor to meat and drippings as well.
If you are drippings saver, this one is a winner since it also gives perfect taste to pasta or vegetables served as a side dish.
If any dripping left, I suggest you keep it, store in the fridge and use for Gnocchi with Zucchini Sauce since it gives addictive meaty taste to this frugal zucchini beauty.
As you have noticed, I placed baked meat on the top of home made pasta boiled in salty water and bathed in drippings. You can do exactly the same using store bought pasta o serve with vegetables only:
The first time I published this lunch / dinner idea was in July 2015. and now, looking back I see the issues I was dealing with. I just did not know better:
Roasted Chicken with Bacon Cover
Ingredients
- Ingredients:
- 1 chicken approx. 3 lb or 2 larger chicken breasts
- 4 Tbsp sunflower oil
- 12-14 smoked bacon slices
- Vegetables and / or pasta to taste
- Cayenne pepper and salt to taste
- MARINADE:
- 12 cups water
- 1 Tbsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 cup white wine
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 carrots, chopped
- Black peper
Instructions
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INSTRUCTIONS:
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Day before you bake the chicken, boil the marinade. Leave to cool.
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Put meat in large bowl and cover with marinade. Leave to rest overnight.
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Next day, preheat the oven to 200 C / 392 F.
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Spread oil on the bottom of baking dish.
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Remove meat from marinade to baking dish.
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Cover meat with bacon lattice. For the best results, attach them to meat with toothpicks.
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Bake for 30 minutes without vegetables.
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Add zuchini, red bell pepper, onion and carrot wedges to taste and bake for additional 20 minutes.
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When done, you can serve meat and vegetables together or prepare pasta according to your taste and serve.
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Vegetables could be also served garnished with chopped garlic and aceto balsamico.
Recipe Notes
Save the drippings for Gnocchi with zucchini sauce.
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