Friday recipes -'chicken

surprise.....it's chicken !

Easiest chicken recipe ever...... one day I went into QFC and there was a managers special on  chickens.  They were .50 a pound because they had to be cooked soon.  The pull  date was the next day,

My mother had an expression that went something like,  some people wouldn't know a bargain if it got up and bit them in the butt.  Don't be that person.

I bought three.    I came home and went hunting  for a good recipe for efficient chicken cooking.  I have two ovens so I knew I could roast  two of them in the oven . Cooking two chickens side by side didn't work, the center portions never got done.

I found one !

The easiest, most efficient way to cook a whole chicken.   Five minutes flat!

• Peel and rough  chop an onion, or two if they are small.   And place in bottom of slow cooker.  This is key,   I tried it with carrots when I didn't have an onion, it doesn't work.   Even if your family doesn't like to bite onto an onion, this works because you aren't going to eat the onion.   
• Pat your chicken dry with a paper towel.   
• Rub a dry rub on the skin.   Recipes for dry rubs are on the internet and you can choose which one you that like the sounds of the ingredients.   If you like it, make a jar so it's ready for you.   Or use  seasoned salt.   
• Place in slow cooker.   Cover and turn on high for an hour a pound or until it tests done. The leg with remove from the body easy and juices will run clear.  Temperature should be 180 degrees in the thigh meat.   

Some of the meat can be fall off the vine, but it's easily used for recipes like casserole, tacos. Enchaladas , pizza......

How to roast a chicken 

• Wipe the chicken with a paper towel.   
• Stuff the cavity  with just about anything you have hanging around short of the kids dirty sox! An apple. An orange, lemon, onion
• Rub olive oil onto the skin.   
• Season with salt and pepper.   
• Place on roasting rack in the roaster.    If you don't have a roasting rack, you can use a baking dish and lift the chicken up by placing it on a bed of onions, carrots, or potato or some of each.  
• Roast at 375 degrees until the internal temperature is 180 and it tests done.   I use a meat thermometer with a probe.   It really works well.