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Flowerpot Roasted Chicken

Brine chicken.
Clean chicken.
Coat chicken with olive oil or butter. Get some butter under the skin if possible.
Season chicken to taste. Salt, pepper, garlic.
Put some cut up apple and onion pieces inside chicken. Pour a little bourbon in as well.

Take large flowerpot and set the drip pan down like a plate. Put the flowerpot down upsidedown on the drip pan with the hole up.
Preheat oven with flowerpot to 500 degrees.
Remove flowerpot from oven and set in chicken breast up.
Put cover back on over chicken. Put flowerpot in oven.

For a 4.5lb bird 30 minutes at 500 degrees. Turn off oven and let alone for 25 minutes.
For a 3.5lb bird 20 minutes at 500 degrees. Turn off oven and let alone for 20 minutes.
Take flowerpot out of oven, and bird out of flowerpot. The skin should be perfectly crisp, and the meat perfectly juicy. Test for temperature at thigh.
Let bird cool on plate for 5 minutes before serving.




Brine For Poultry

Brine (quantity for turkey):
1 qt of water with 6 cloves of garlic (smashed) and peppercorns (cracked) steeped for 20 minutes.
Turn off heat, add 1lb kosher salt and 1 lb dark brown sugar, and 5 quarts of water, stir until completely mixed, add a little more water if necessary.
Ice for a few minutes until very cold.
Put bird in for 8 – 15 hours. Make sure the skin has been pulled away from the meat on the bird.

¼ recipe of brine for chicken. Brine for 6 hours.