Bobby Flay's Chicken With Roquefort
- 1/4 cup clover honey
- 1/2 cup aged sherry vinegar
- Kosher salt and ground black pepper
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1/4 cup crumbled Roquefort cheese at room temperature
- 4 skin-on boneless chicken breasts, 8 ounces each
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 4 sprigs fresh rosemary, plus more for garnish.
- Heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Put honey in a small saucepan and cook over medium-low heat until lightly golden brown, about 5 minutes.
- Add vinegar and cook until reduced and thickened, about 15 minutes.
- This sweet deglazed sauce is called a gastrique.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Keep warm.
- Mix together the butter and blue cheese in a small bowl until well blended, and season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Using your fingers, gently loosen the skin from the chicken breasts and stuff about 1 heaping tablespoon of the blue cheese butter under the skin of each breast, smoothing the skin to evenly distribute the butter over the surface of the breast meat.
- Season both sides of the chicken with salt and pepper.
- Heat oil in large ovenproof saute pan over medium heat until it begins to shimmer.
- Put chicken in the pan, skin-side down, and cook until fat renders and skin is golden brown and crispy, about 5 minutes.
- Turn chicken and add four rosemary sprigs to pan.
- Place in oven and roast until breasts are just cooked through, about 5 minutes longer.
- Remove pan from oven and heat broiler.
- Spread the remaining butter over the tops of each breast and place under the broiler until golden brown and blistered.
- Remove each breast to a plate, spoon some of the pan drippings over each breast and immediately drizzle with some of the gastrique.
- Garnish with rosemary.
honey, aged sherry vinegar, kosher salt, butter, skin, canola oil, rosemary
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015956 (may not work)