How to Make Brick Chicken

Brick chicken is a new trendy way of cooking crisp, juicy chicken. You can make brick chicken easily at home.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Small whole chicken, 3 1/2 lbs or less.
• nice heavy skillet .... not a non-stick skillet. If you have grandma's cast iron skillet, it is perfect.
• two bricks, clean
• Aluminum foil
• You favorite herbs. I like lemon pepper on these chickens.
• oil

1. Clean and prepare the chicken. Unless you are a skilled meat preparer, have the butcher remove the backbone from the chicken. He will be happy to help; no one lets a butcher be a butcher any more...
   Heavily salt and season, I like Lemon pepper on these small chickens.

2. Using a heavy skillet, preferably a cast iron skillet, heat a liberal amount of oil at medium Heat.....Also Preheat the oven to around 375.

3. Wrap two bricks in aluminum foil. Place the chicken in the hot oil, tucking parts in to fit it in. Place the bricks on top to weight it down. The idea is to crisp it a lot, but allow the inside to be moist.

4. Cook around 20-25 minutes, crispy and golden are the desired results. Then place it in the oven for around 20 minutes, or until juices run clear. Be sure thigh is done.

Tips & Warnings

• You can add your favorite sauce or gravy if you like. I like a lemon sauce.
• When cooking chicken, ALWAYS take care when handling raw chicken. Anything it touches or you touch is subject to salmonella contamination.
• Also, it is imperative that you allow the chicken to cook completely through and through. Unless you want to be very sick, you don't eat chicken RARE!

Resources

• Serious Eats
• How Oscar's NYC does Brick chicken

[NightScribe]

on 6/6/2009 I guess I haven't watched enough cooking shows lately. This brick chicken recipe is really interesting.

[ReuseItAll]

on 5/12/2009 I've seen this on cooking shows!! Thanks for the instructions!!

[kianichelle]

on 4/21/2009 Thanks for the brick chicken recipe. I have to try it.