Step 12 of 16 · Weeknight Roast Chicken
Fifteen minutes, tented, not wrapped like a burrito
Fifteen minutes, tented, not wrapped like a burrito — step 12 of 16 in Weeknight Roast Chicken. Move the bird to a board with a groove. Tent loosely with foil — a loose hat, not a tight wrap that steams the skin into rubber.
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Move the bird to a board with a groove. Tent loosely with foil — a loose hat, not a tight wrap that steams the skin into rubber. Rest 15 minutes. Carryover will nudge the breast a degree or two. If you carve at minute two, the board fills with juice that belonged in the meat.
Leave the vegetables in the turned-off oven or on the stove, tented, so they stay hot. Spoon off excess fat from the roasting pan into a jar (save a tablespoon in the pan for the sauce). You should have brown bits stuck to the metal. Those bits are the sauce. If the pan is burned black and bitter, skip scraping the worst patches.
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