What can I baste or cover a whole chicken with that's tasty and different?

Question

Can I cook roast potatoes in with the chicken?

Oh thanks cowardly anonymous one.

Answer 1

If you are really ambitious, you can cover the thing with puff pastry. Cook the chicken completely. Take it out of the oven, cover it with the puff pastry you can buy already made. Wrap the pastry around the bird. If you are really fancy, you can cut out pastry leaves and things and press them onto the bird.

Put the entire thing into the oven and cook until the pastry is done. Very interesting conversation piece.

A simpler option is to make a sweet chicken with cinnamon and sugar (or sweetener). You can cut up the chicken, place the pieces into a pan, add a layer of vegetable oil, sugar and cinnamon. Bake until done.

You can also make an oil-cinnamon-sugar basting sauce for the whole chicken. It is different from the more common savory chicken.

Answer 2

Can mix up melted butter and flour to make a paste. Add salt to taste, then brush this onto the skin and bake. Makes for a tastey and crisp skin. Yes, can cook potatoes in with chicken. Make sure the chicken is almost done before adding the potatoes. Don't want the potatoes sitting in all the liquid from raw chicken. Also, brush on water or milk to the chick. skin and then roll chick in packaged bread crumbs. Is good.

Answer 3

Here's a basting mixture we use when roasting a whole chicken:

2 tablespoons Soy sauce
2 tablespoons Honey
1 tablespoon lemon, orange or apple juice [any one of these]
pinch each of powdered sage, seasoned salt, garlic powder.

Stir together and brush or spoon over the chicken, reserving some for basting with. Roast at 325F for 30 minutes...baste chicken with accumulated juices & more of the mixture. Continue roasting until leg-joint is very flexible and no pink juice comes out when you poke Mister Chix in the side of the breast.

After removing chicken from pan, drain juices off into a cup or other container. SAVE this in fridge to use with reheated leftovers the next day--peel off the accumulated fat before using.

Answer 4

Yes cook the potatoes with the chicken. Just don't cut them too small. To baste the chicken put 5-6 strips of bacon on the bird.

Answer 5

Beer Basted Chicken with Asian Flavors.
Ingredients:-
1 3 1/2- to 4-pound chicken
1 12-ounce can beer
6 green onions, chopped
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons (packed) golden brown sugar
2 tablespoons chopped peeled fresh ginger
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
1 tablespoon oriental sesame oil
Preparation:-
Combine all ingredients in heavy large resealable plastic bag. Refrigerate 1 hour and up to 1 day, turning bag occasionally.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Place chicken and marinade in 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan. Roast chicken until juices run clear when thigh is pierced, basting occasionally, about 1 hour 20 minutes.

Transfer chicken to platter. Pour pan juices into medium saucepan; spoon off fat and discard. Boil until sauce is reduced to 1 cup, about 6 minutes. Serve chicken with sauce

Answer 6

take some tomato puree fine chopped pickle and lemon juice cover the chicken and roast in the usual way baste from time to time from the pan, no potatoes should be roasted separately as chicken makes too-much liquid cooking

Answer 7

Baste it with the oil in the pan and sprinkle Cajun Spices over the skin. When you turn the chicken to cook the underside repeat the procedure again.

The Cajun Spices are hot tangy and great with whole or pieces of chicken.

As for your roast spuds, not advisable to cook in same pan as chicken.

Answer 8

I like to do a dry spice rub on my chicken and cook it in foil for most of the cooking time, then open it up for the last 15 Min's to crisp up the skin. I do throw potato's around the edge when I do this, but I cut them so that they are all similar sizes, not too big. As for the seasoning, you can but a season mix or make up your own using your favourites, include salt if you make your own.

Answer 9

i sprinkle schwartz chicken seasoning over chicken before roasting, make sure u cook uncovered for last 1/2 hour so skin is crispy. no u cant cook potatoes with chicken they will go soggy. boil potatoes for 10 mins then drain, have hot oil ready in baking tin, put potatoes in baste with oil and cook for about an hour they should be crisp then.

Answer 10

Hey, I've got a whole chicken in the oven right now! I basted it with olive oil and Essence of Emeril seasoning, with a little salt and pepper!

You could throw in potato cubes for the last half hour, and it'll be wonderful!