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One-Ingredient Roast Chicken with Kosher Salt
1 h 40 minServes 4Nutri-Score C€€
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1 h 40 min
1 h 40 minOne-Ingredient Roast Chicken with Kosher Salt
what you need
Ingredients
whole chicken (patted very dry with paper towels)Meat1 piece
kosher salt (generous coating, inside and out)Spices60 g
per serving
Nutrition
410kcal
- Carbs
- 0 g
- Proteins
- 35 g
- Fat
- 30 g
what you’ll use
Tools
Oven
Baking dish
kitchen twine
step by step
Method
- Step 1
Preheat the oven
- Preheat the oven to 220 °C (425 °F).
- Step 2
Dry the chicken
- Pat the chicken thoroughly dry with plenty of paper towels, inside the cavity and all over the skin.
- Step 3
Coat generously with kosher salt
- Pour a generous amount of kosher salt over the chicken, legs up and breast up.
- Rub the salt all over the skin and inside the cavity — there is no such thing as too much.
- Step 4
Tie the legs
- Tie the legs together with kitchen twine.
- Step 5
Roast
- Place the chicken in a baking dish and roast at 220 °C (425 °F) for about 1 hour 30 minutes, until the skin is deeply golden and the juices run clear.
- Step 6
Rest and serve
- Let the chicken rest briefly, then carve — the salt crust doesn't matter once you cut into it.