[CH] Recipe Challenge....

MReese4943@aol.com
Sun, 6 Aug 2000 03:32:45 EDT

Okay, here is an awesome recipe for chicken, but it has no heat.  Besides 
just sprinkling with Calvin's, any suggestions?

2 3.5 lb chickens
3 tablespoons butter
salt and pepper to taste
1 cup water
1/2 cup heavy cream
4 tablespoons Dijon mustard

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Rub chickens all over with butter.  Sprinkle inside and out with salt and 
pepper.  Truss.  (Marilyn's note: I don't know how to truss, and I never did 
this, but it was in the original recipe, so I left it in.)  Arrange (funny 
how things have to be arranged in a fancy recipe) chickens on their sides in 
a shallow baking pan.

Roast for 20 minutes, turn on the other side.  (Baste often) Roast another 20 
minutes, turn on their backs.  Roast another 20 minutes, or until cavity 
juices run clear.

Remove chickens from pan, and keep warn.  Pour off fat from pan, add the 
water.  Stir to remove the brown particles that cling to the pan.  Pour 
liquid into a sauce pan, cook to reduce by half.  Add cream and cook briefly. 
 Add mustard and cook, stirring, for about 30 seconds.  Serve chicken sliced 
with mustard sauce.