Recipe: Roast Chicken with Garlic Confit

ROAST CHICKEN WITH GARLIC CONFIT

As prepared on the show. You could easily halve the recipe, and you could use any chicken parts you like.

This was based on a recipe from the dearly departed Gourmet:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Roasted-Chicken-with-Garlic-Confit-109107

FOR THE CONFIT:
24 cloves garlic, peeled and left whole
2 cups olive oil
Few sprigs thyme (whole)

In a saucepan, heat the oil over very low heat. Add a garlic clove and the thyme sprigs. If the garlic bubbles for 5 minutes or so but doesn't turn brown, add the rest of the cloves. Cook for about 30 minutes. DO NOT LET IT BROWN!

Remove the garlic with a slotted spoon and add to a bowl along with 2 tbsp of the oil. Mash with a fork until it is a paste. Set aside until the chicken is ready.

FOR THE CHICKEN
8 chicken thighs (1 family pack)
6 chicken legs (1 regular pack)
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp olive oil
salt and pepper

Heat the oven to 500 degrees. Melt the butter and olive oil together. Put the chicken on a roasting rack, brush with butter-oil mixture, and season with salt and pepper. Roast in the oven for 30 minutes.

Take the chicken out and slather some garlic confit on each piece, getting under the skin if you can. Return to the oven for 5-10 minutes. Eat.

WCN! 10/7: Garlic! The Other White Meat!

On the next episode of What's Cookin' Now!: "Garlic! The Other White Meat!"

You may have noticed the six-foot radius of personal space that tends to form around the WCN! crew. Is it because of our lax bathing habits? Maybe, but it's mostly because we're all garlic fanatics. If you're a vampire*, or if you're the sort of person who thinks garlic is the stuff you shake timidly out of a ten-year-old plastic bottle when you make Chex Mix at Christmastime, this is NOT the show for you.

Jonathan will take the classic pairing of roast chicken and way too much garlic and show you how to do it in less than an hour. Jenny will make shrimp scampi and garlic bread worthy of the name. And Tricia will take the mini-burger into the stratosphere with some tasty garlicky toppings.

That's Wednesday, October 7, 6-7PM. You can find it on 88.7 WMMT-FM in Whitesburg, KY, or you can listen online at http://www.wmmtfm.org

Don't miss it!

* Unless you're one of those modern emo vampires. Garlic probably just makes them twinkle or some damn thing like that. Nothing kills today's vampire but the pain of a broken heart.