Roast Chicken With Pinenuts, Lemon, And Rosemary
- 2 chickens, each cut into 8 pieces
- 1 cup pine nuts, lightly toasted
- 4 lemons, cut into wedges
- 1 cup fresh bread crumbs
- 1 sprig rosemary, leaves removed from stem and chopped
- 2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup safflower or grapeseed oil
- 1 cup white wine
- salt and pepper
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, combine bread crumbs, pinenuts, rosemary, and salt and pepper to taste. Add butter and use your fingers or a fork to incorporate it into the crumb mixture. Squeeze one or two wedges of lemon into bowl to slightly moisten mixture.
- Wash chicken pieces thoroughly, and pat dry. In a large roasting pan, place chicken pieces in a single layer and drizzle oil on all sides, using hands to evenly distribute. Season generously with salt and pepper.
- Sprinkle crumb mixture over chicken, doing your best to adhere mixture to underside of chicken pieces as well as tops. Squeeze a couple of the lemon wedges overtop, and add all wedges (including squeezed ones) to pan, nestled between chicken pieces.
- Bake uncovered for 35-45 minutes, until chicken is fully cooked but not dry. Transfer chicken to a plate.
- Place roaster on stove top, turn heat to high, and add wine. Use a wooden spoon to scrape the fond (flavorful brown bits) up from the bottom of the pan, and incorporate them into wine to form sauce. Once wine has been brought to a boil, add chicken pieces back in, right-side up, to preserve the crisp top while moistening the bottom in the sauce.
- Transfer chicken pieces to serving platter, drizzle pan sauce overtop, and serve immediately.
chickens, pine nuts, lemons, bread crumbs, rosemary, butter, safflower, white wine, salt
Taken from food52.com/recipes/3389-roast-chicken-with-pinenuts-lemon-and-rosemary (may not work)