How to Season Chicken for Gourmet Stuffed Chicken Recipe

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"Now, I have these trusty gloves. You can buy them at Costco. I like them when I'm dealing with poultry because I can take them on and off and it necessitates washing my hands less. So I'm going to put the gloves on each hand. And one of my hands is going to go into the butter and the other is actually going to touch the chicken and stuff. So, I've got a nice lump of butter here and I'm going to get this guy under here. Now, let's take this little piece. Got a nice mash there, just under the skin. And let's lift this corner and put this piece under and again I'm going to mash it and put it under to make sure it's all even. Okay. And let's get a little more under here. Let's see I've got nice lump of butter. I want to get it nice and even. And I'm going to come back around this joint and slide it under the thigh and just press it down. That's perfect. And this piece is going to go back up around and under the joint and I'm going to slide this under the thigh and just soften it. Now there's a lot of fat in the thigh so really the place that I'm most concerned with is the breast. That that breast is nice and lubricated. And the gloves come off and I don't have to wash my hands. Now, I'm going to season the chicken and this is really easy. This is really just a little bit of salt, a little bit of pepper and a little of paprika to give it a little bit of color. So, salt my top. You want to salt inside the cavity, so we're going to give it a little bit of, I've got some salt over here all ready ground, and I'm just going to put a little bit of that inside the cavity. A little bit of fresh cracked pepper inside the cavity. And let's flip my guy over here. It's going to get a little more salt on the backside, a little more pepper. Don't worry about putting too much pepper on the chicken. You can never season it too much. Flip this guy back over, get a little bit more seasoning on the front, especially on these legs. Great. Let me just rinse my hands. I'm going to put a little paprika on it. And then we're going to stuff it and truss it."