Baking Bag Chicken

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

[5] For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. [6] Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.

 

An ej original recipe!

 

 

Up to 8 lb baking bag

1 t flour in bottom of bag

1/4 c Sauvignon Blanc

Lemon that was squeezed 

5-6 lb whole Chicken, trimmed of excess fat, spatchcocked to lay flat and injected with solution

Injection Solution

1/8 c Clarified butter

1/2 c Chicken stock

1 T bourbon

1/4 c Maple syrup 

1 T Worcestershire sauce

1/2 of a lemon squeezed

1 T smoked garlic seasoning

1 t onion powder

1/2 t white pepper 

1/2 t black pepper

Put in salt, onion powder and garlic, peppers in coffee grinder 

and pulse to dust

Heat for 15 seconds in microwave.

Whisk

Strain

Cool

Put in tall red plastic cup

Fill injector 

Gently Inject chicken in many spots

Grease chicken on outside with olive oil or butter, salt, pepper and garlic, dust with smoked paprika 

Put in chicken, tie legs, flip wings under

Bake, preheated 400 degree oven for 1 and 1/2 hour or until breast reaches 160 degrees

Let sit for 20 minutes so juices will redistribute

Temp with rise another 5 or more degrees while resting

Reserve broth and placed sliced chicken in broth

Serve with garlic Parmesan mashed potatoes, salad and peas