Chicken in a Bag

Chicken in a Bag


Ok I hope you liked my last post about the Hainanese Chicken rice!!! although very delicious, it took quite a while to make it and there were a lot of initial steps that had to be performed before you could actually eat!

So I thought of a recipe which is much simpler and way less effort!

I saw this recipe on Jamie Olivers show and decided to add a few more ingredients to it:

2 chicken breasts
2tsp thyme
2tsp rosemary
2tsp dried chilli flakes
2tsp salt
2tsp black pepper
200ml dry white wine
2 sticks of butter
olive oil
10 new potatoes (these are the small variety)
12 florets of brocolli
6 cloves of garlic
6 large mushrooms sliced f
Aluminium foil
This dish serves 2 people


I love pairing this dish with a Hefeweizen, blonde ales and pale ales.

This recipe requires you to make two parcels out of aluminium foil, each parcel being the portion for one person. So that means you use half the ingredients that i have listed above per parcel. So you use 3 garlic cloves per person instead of 6, and 1 tsp per parcel instead of 2, got it? Why cook like this? Because when you cook chicken in this manner it steams in its own juices and hold all the flavor in the package. The ingredient list above represents the total amount for two people.

Instructions:
Step 1: Wash the brocolli and potatoes then cut off 8 large florets from the brocolli and cut those in half again. Scrub the potatoes clean from any dirt on it, no need to peel them unless you absolutely want to. Cut the potatoes into smaller pieces like in the picture below. Then put the brocolli and potatoes in the same bowl and set aside.


step 2: Finely chop the garlic into small cubes and slice the mushrooms and put it in the bowl with the potatoes and brocolli. Pour some olive oil into the same bowl and mix it with your hands, covering the oil on the potatoes, mushrooms, brocolli, then add 1 tsp of the thyme, rosemary, chilli flakes, the equal amount of 4 cloves of garlic, salt and black pepper, with 2 sticks of butter. Make sure all the spice is evenly covering everything in the bowl.

Step 3: Scoring the bird
Start preheating your oven at 275 degrees C.
Score the chicken with a knife, but be careful not to cut all the way through the chicken. Then rub the remaining butter, pepper, rosemary, thyme garlic and salt onto the chicken and into the slits.










Step 4: Sealing the parcel
Layout your foil across you work space, put the chicken in the middle and surround it with the potatoes, mushrooms, brocolli all the while making adding some extra butter on the chicken.









Fold the both sides towards the middle,. Before closing completely I add in the white wine.

I usually wrap the parcel one more time with another piece of foil just to be sure that its all closed.










Now we put it in the oven on 275 degrees celcius or the maximum temperature your oven can go for 50 minutes and it should come out looking something like the picture below. Pair it with your favorite beer and voila!

Arvid from Brewcuisine