40 cloves and chicken

[John Solak]

Saw an episode of Good Eats and AB made some chicken using 40 cloves of garlic and I decided to give it a try. All I had was chicken thighs instead of a whole chicken and I used some Knox's Yummy Chicken Seasoning instead of just thyme.

Cooked chicken direct in a little olive oil in a CI frying pan about 5 min each side with some Lawry's seasoning salt and pepper. Then added some more olive oil, Knox's Yummy chicken and 40 cloves of garlic and moved indirect.

Cooked at 350*f for 1.5 hours.

Brushed some oil from the CI pan on a sourdough baguette and toasted.

Plated.
Made some mock mashed potatoes using cauliflower and spread some of the garlic on the bread. Great tasting meal if you love garlic. Sorry for the sub par pics, had the camera on the wrong setting.

 

[Jim Lampe]

John, you must LOVE garlic as much as I do!
Your 2nd photo is OUTSTANDING!!! GOLD MEDAL!
And love the cauliflower dish too, only done that once....gonna hafta repeat!
Fantastic!

 

[Guy Wallace]

Looks great I have a strnage taste thing and I can hardly taste garlic ! It would take or it does take a LOT for me to even notice its in a dish ! Strange but true .

 

[Wolgast]

Looks great.

Im a garlic lover myself and this one in now on the "to-do" list.

bless

 

[Mike R. (Heyworth)]

The first time I saw that episode, I said "Hey, that's Spain chicken!" Our favorite restaurant in spain does their chicken that way, ton of fresh herbs and enough garlic to kill Dracula. Very very tasty, especially for garlic lovers. Yours looks beautiful in that cast iron as well. Nice job! That second picture is magazine worthy.

 

[Don Cash]

That is one unbelievably good looking meal!! Kudos from another garlic lover!!!

 

[Pete D.]

I did that dish once in my regular over using the recipe from Cook's Illustrated. It was a while ago, but I remember roasting the garlic for about 45 min before adding the chicken. The taste of the garlic was great and it didn't have the strong aftertaste that you usually get with garlic (and no bad breath either). I was amazed how effective pre-roasting the garlic was in this dish.

 

[Toby Keil]

Looks awesome but I only see 37 cloves...lol. Looks great my friend.

 

[Chris E]

I'd love the recipe for your mock mashed potatoes.

 

[John Solak]

Originally posted by Chris E:
I'd love the recipe for your mock mashed potatoes.

Just Google mock garlic mashed potatoes and you'll have a bunch of recipes to choose from.

I just steamed up a cut up head of cauliflower in some chicken broth till fork tender. Drained the liquid and added some of the cooked garlic from the chicken, a couple of TBS of sour cream some shredded cheese and mashed everything together with a potato masher.

 

[DaleW]

Cast iron skillet on a Weber kettle is money, and you, sir, are an expert!