Posted on 11/05/2005 8:57:40 PM PST by paulat
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Chicken With Coca-Cola and Lemons
Juice of 3 lemons
1 4 ½ pound chicken, butterflied
3 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Zest of 2 lemons, removed with a vegetable peeler
Olive oil, for sautéeing
1 medium onion, thickly sliced
¼ cup finely julienned ginger
3 cloves garlic, crushed and chopped
1 cup Coca-Cola
½ teaspoon white vinegar
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1. In a large, rimmed dish, sprinkle the lemon juice over both sides of the chicken. Rub with the salt and pepper, then the lemon zest. Cover and chill for 4 hours.
2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spread the chicken, skin side up, in a roasting pan. Reserve the lemon juice, diluting it with 1 tablespoon water. Cover the chicken with foil and roast for 30 minutes, basting it with the lemon juice every 5 to 10 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, cover the bottom of a medium sauté pan with a thin film of olive oil. Place over medium heat and add the onion and ginger. Cook until the onions are soft and golden, about 8 minutes, then stir in the garlic. Season with salt and pepper.
4. After the chicken has cooked for 30 minutes, lower the heat to 300 degrees and remove the foil. Begin basting every 10 minutes with the Coca-Cola, until the chicken juices run clear, about 1 hour more. Reheat the onions, adding the vinegars and 2 tablespoons of the chicken juices. Cook for 1 minute. Serve the chicken topped with the onions and pan drippings. Serves 4 to 6. Adapted from Frédérick Grasser-Hermé.
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Husband just had me copy it LOL!! Can't say when he'll try it. Probably during a football game this winter. He likes to cook something special for game time.
Anyone know where the Thanksgiving recipe thread went?
On a side note, ham is great when basted with Coca-Cola.
I just had to laugh that the famed NYTMagazine finally figured out that you can use Coca-Cola as a cooking ingredient!!!
FYI...there is more to this article...not just a recipe...I just posted the recipe because I thought it was funny that the NYT thought it was "chic" to use Coca-Cola in a recipe....
Cool! I'll try that!
You know, as interesting as this sounds, I'd bet no one would ever buy "chicken-flavored lemon Coke."
Husband uses beer with chicken. He does that stand a chicken up with the beer can inside recipe. He's also done it with grape pop LOL!! Actually, I thought the grape pop was the best.
Yes, but Ms. Hesser shifts the blame for using the lowly Coke onto a French chef. She was 'humored' by it, also.:D
. Again, the savory and sweet. A food writer who has worked with chefs like Alain Ducasse, Grasser-Hermé is also the wife of the Parisian pastry chef Pierre Hermé. It humored me that a French cook would deign to baste her chicken with Coke. But it makes perfect sense: like many drinks — wheat beer, iced tea, sangria, Vietnamese sugar-cane juice — Coca-Cola is always improved by a wedge of lemon.
I wouldn't buy chicken-flavored white wine either, but that doesn't mean
the reverse isn't a classic.
The Jones company makes a turkey-flavored soda for Thanksgiving...even the thought of it....
I think you use one can of coke per ham. Baste it every 15 minutes or so. The sugar in the Coke is what makes it.
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