Roast Chicken With Jus Recipes

ROASTED CHICKEN JUS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a roasting pan add chicken wings, vegetables, thyme and garlic. Season well with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil. Roast for 30 minutes until the wings are nice and brown.
• Remove from the oven and set over medium-high heat on the stove top. Add white wine to deglaze and scrape the brown bits off the bottom of the pan using a wooden spoon. Add the chicken stock and continue to simmer for 5 minutes to reduce the liquid until about 1 cup remains. Remove from heat and strain through a china cap, pushing some of the vegetable pulp through the strainer with the back of a ladle - this will help thicken the jus slightly. Add the cold butter cubes to the jus and swirl until it melts. Season again with salt and pepper.

PAN SEARED CHICKEN BREAST WITH HERB JUS AND POTATO-VEGETABLE HASH

Steps:

• Heat a large saute pan over high heat and add the oil. Season both sides of chicken breast with salt and pepper, to taste. Sear the chicken, skin side down, 4 to 5 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium, flip the chicken, cover the pan and cook on second side for 7 to 8 minutes.
• After second side has been cooked, add the wine, garlic, and herbs and continue to cook until the liquid is reduced by half.
• Transfer the chicken to a serving platter and allow it to rest.
• Remove the pan from the heat and whisk in the butter, scraping up the bits from the bottom of the pan.
• Serve the chicken with Potato-Vegetable Hash and the pan sauce. Garnish with chives.
• Using a box grater, shred the potato, zucchini and squash, and add them to a large bowl.
• Stir in the onion, egg, flour, garlic, herbs, and Cajun spice. Blend well. Add more flour if mixture is too wet. The mixture should hold its shape when squeezed.
• Heat a large saute pan over medium heat. Add 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil. Portion the hash into 2 cakes, then gently put them in the pan. Cook until golden brown, about 2 to 3 minutes, then flip and cook until the other side is browned. Remove them from the pan to a paper towel and season with salt, to taste. Serve warm.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH JUS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Season the chicken cavity with salt and pepper. Tie the legs together with kitchen twine and fold the wing tips under the back. Put the carrot, onion, celery, neck, and heart, if using, in the center of a roasting pan just large enough to accommodate the chicken. (Discard the liver or reserve for another recipe.) Season the butter with salt and pepper and brush the entire chicken with it. Set the bird breast-side up on top of the vegetables.
• Roast the chicken for 45 minutes. Then increase the temperature to 425 degrees F., cooking until an instant-read thermometer stuck into the chicken thigh registers 160 to 170 degrees F., about 15 minutes more. Tip the chicken so the juices run into the pan. Transfer the chicken to a cutting board and loosely tent with foil while making the jus.
• To make the jus: Set a strainer over a bowl. Strain the vegetables, giblets, if using, and pan juices into the strainer. Shake the strainer to get more juices into the bowl. Set strainer aside. Skim most of the fat from the surface of the liquid with a spoon, or alternately, use a degreasing cup. Reserve the pan juices.
• Place the roasting pan directly on a burner set at medium-high. Pour the chicken broth into the pan, and scrape the pan with a wooden spoon to loosen all the browned bits that cling to the pan. Add the reserved pan juices, increase the heat to high and boil the liquid until slightly thickened. Return the reserved vegetables to the sauce, if desired, or carefully strain jus through a fine sieve into a serving bowl. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Keep warm until ready to serve.
• Carve the chicken and serve with the jus.
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GARLIC-ROSEMARY ROAST CHICKEN WITH JUS

Steps:

• Combine salt, garlic, and rosemary in zipper-lock bag; seal, pressing out air.
• Pound with meat pounder or rolling pin until garlic is crushed.
• Transfer to large container or stockpot, stir in 2 cups hot water, let stand 10 minutes.
• Add 1 1/2 quarts cold water, stir until salt is dissolved.
• Submerge chicken in brine and refrigerate 1 hour. Meanwhile, make paste.
• Stir all paste ingredients together in small bowl, let rest.
• Remove chicken from brine and pat dry with paper towels.
• Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 450 degrees.
• Spray roasting pan and rack with non-stick cooking spray.
• Rub about 1 1/2 teaspoons of paste in cavity of chicken.
• Carefully loosen skin over breast and thigh on each side; slip half of remaining paste under skin on each side of breast, then, using fingers, distribute paste over breast and thigh.
• Rub all sides of chicken with 2 teaspoons oil and season with pepper.
• Toss 10 garlic cloves with 1/2 teaspoon olive oil.
• Scatter in bottom of pan.
• Set chicken breast-side down on prepared V-rack and roast 15 minutes.
• After 15 min, remove roasting pan from oven; decrease oven temperature to 375 degrees. Rotate chicken breast-side up; brush breast with 1 teaspoon oil.
• Add 1 cup broth and 1/2 cup water to pan and continue to roast until chicken is medium golden brown adding more water to roasting pan if liquid evaporates.
• Tip chicken to allow juices in cavity to run into roasting pan. Transfer chicken to large plate.
• Remove roasted garlic cloves to cutting board.
• Using wooden spoon, scrape up browned bits in roasting pan and pour liquid into 2-cup liquid measuring cup.
• Allow liquid to settle; meanwhile, peel garlic and mash to paste with fork.
• Using soup spoon, skim fat off surface of liquid (you should have about 5/3 cup skimmed liquid; if not, supplement with water).
• Transfer liquid to small saucepan, then add wine, rosemary sprig, remaining ¾ cup broth, and garlic paste; simmer over medium-high heat, until reduced to about 1 cup, about 8 minutes.
• Add accumulated juices from chicken and discard rosemary sprig; adjust seasonings with salt and pepper to taste.
• Carve chicken and serve with jus.