Ever since hearing about cooking a chicken by using bricks, I was intrigued about it and after seeing it on a cooking show a few weeks ago I decided that it was time to try it myself. The first thing that I needed to do was get some bricks and picked up a number of them at my local Home Depot.

The theory behind cooking chicken with bricks is that you start with the skin side down and the bricks on top, applying constant pressure to the chicken and the pan. The end result is that the entire chicken skin browns to a perfectly crispy colour and the rest of the cooking occurs in the oven in the second stage of the cooking.

What results when you remove the chicken from the oven is the most moist chicken that you have ever tasted. The marinade that the chicken basted in overnight imparts just a slight garlic and herb taste that perfectly compliments the crispy texture.

If you’re panning on having guests over for dinner and are looking for a unique way to prepare a chicken, the Chicken under a Brick recipe adds a distinctive way of doing so that is sure to be a crowd pleaser.

You can see the recipe for Chicken under a Brick here.

Baden