Brined Chicken with Lemon
Source of Recipe
Cooking Light, OCTOBER 2000
Recipe Introduction
Yield: 8 servings (serving size: 3 ounces chicken)
WW Points: 4
"Brining, or soaking food in a salt solution, can improve the flavor of chicken. Soaking the chicken in brine overnight allows for uniform salting and produces a very moist chicken."
List of Ingredients
2/3 cup kosher salt
1 (4- to 5-pound) roasting chicken
4 (1/8-inch-thick) slices lemon
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
4 lemon wedges
4 flat-leaf parsley sprigs
2 garlic cloves, cut in half
1 shallot, peeled and quartered
Recipe
Combine 4 quarts water and salt in a Dutch oven, stirring until the salt dissolves. Remove and discard giblets and neck from chicken. Rinse chicken with cold water; pat dry. Trim excess fat. Add chicken to salt mixture; cover and refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
Preheat oven to 400E.
Remove chicken from brine; discard brine. Pat chicken dry with paper towels. Starting at neck cavity, loosen skin from breast and drumsticks by inserting fingers, gently pushing between skin and meat. Place the lemon slices under loosened skin. Sprinkle cavity with pepper; place the lemon wedges, parsley, garlic, and shallot into cavity. Lift wing tips up and over back; tuck under chicken. Place on the rack of a broiler pan. Bake at 400E for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until thermometer registers 180E. Discard skin.
CALORIES 164 (35% from fat); FAT 6.3g (satfat 1.7g, monofat 2.3g, polyfat 1.5g); PROTEIN 24.7g; CARBOHYDRATE 1g; FIBER 0.1g; CHOLESTEROL 76mg; IRON 1.1mg; SODIUM 494mg; CALCIUM 18mg;
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