How to Cook Your Christmas Chicken In A Paper Bag

How to Cook Your Christmas Chicken In A Paper Bag

December 14, 2016 Off By admin
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Paper bags can be used in plenty of ways in the kitchen. For example, you can use them to help your fruit to ripen faster. You can even use a paper bag to make a delicious dinner if you know what to do, and making paper bag chicken is one of our favourite ways to repurpose these eco-friendly bags.

A nice roast chicken dinner isn’t something that many of us would turn away from, and using a simple brown paper bag can make each mouthful more mouth-watering than ever. Roasting a chicken in a paper bag is an excellent cooking hack since the material lets just enough steam escape for the skin to get brown and crispy but still traps enough to make the meat moist and tender.

Of course, you need to make sure you use a bag that doesn’t have any printing on it, and make sure that the bag doesn’t touch the top of the oven. Just follow these simple instructions to get everything else done in style.

First thing’s first: turn on your oven and preheat it to 400 degrees. Next, rinse your chicken off and then remove as much excess fat as you can. It’s now time to add some seasoning; sprinkle the chicken generously with some salt and pepper, then rub the skin with some paprika and use rosemary and onion for inside the cavity.

You’re now ready to use your brown paper bag. A standard size bag should be big enough; just slip the chicken inside, then use some kitchen twine in order to tightly seal it closed. Take your bagged chicken and place it on a baking sheet, then put it on one of your oven’s lower shelves. Sit back and relax for the next hour and a half while your chicken roasts.

Once your 90 minutes is up and the kitchen is full of the delicious smell of roasted chicken, remove it from the oven and then open the bag slowly to release the steam still held inside. All you need to do now is let it stand for 10 minutes or so before digging in.