1. Favorite Food~Roasted Chicken By Kim Lewandowski CAA 100 Essentials for Success September 10, 2012

2. Why I Like Roasted Chicken • Mild taste is a blank canvas • It’s versatile • Roasting concentrates flavor • Use drippings for sauces, gravies and stocks • Lots of ways to use leftovers

3. Origins of Chicken and Roasting • Chicken was first used and domesticated in the Indus Valley, in present-day Pakistan and northwest India, around 3000BC • Roasting meat was one of the first ways humans began to cook food

4. What Is Roasted Chicken? • Add heat till cooked to safe temperature • Ways to roast meat and poultry: • Over an open fire • In an oven

5. My Favorite Method: Wine-Butt Chicken • Fill a can halfway with flavorful liquid • Season the chicken under and over the skin • Grill for 1-1.5 hours, till thigh meat measures 160°F

6. What I Like to Do With Roasted Chicken – Part 1 • Roast in oven or on grill, carve and eat for dinner

7. What I Like to Do With Roasted Chicken – Part 2 • Remove meat from carcass, make stock

8. What I Like to Do With Roasted Chicken – Part 3 • Use it in leftovers - for example: • Chicken salad • Chicken and cheese quesadillas • Chicken fried rice • Chicken á la king • Chicken and vegetable soup • Chicken tacos • Chicken sandwiches • Chicken Alfredo • Chicken tortilla soup