Everyday Dorie: Lemon-Fennel Chicken in a Pot

February 11, 2024 at 11:11 pm | Posted in cook the book fridays, everyday dorie, groups, other savory, savory things | 4 Comments
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Lemon-Fennel Chicken in a Pot is the third Dutch oven-roasted chicken dish we’ve made. Kind of strange since they were all similar (a whole chicken cooked in a pot with some aromatics and liquid), but this was my least favorite of the three, and it seems like the most of the group also thought so.

I added a couple of carrots and potatoes to the bottom of the pot along with the fennel, lemon and shallots. Once the chicken was set on top of all that I think maybe I just had too much stuff in the pot. My chicken was sitting so high it was touching the lid in spots (and I ripped the skin off those spots when I took the top off the Dutch oven at the end of cooking–oops.). I don’t think it needed to roast for 90 minutes either, which was my bad, as I knew from the pan-sauce vinaigrette version that a small chicken would be done earlier, but I wasn’t paying attention. Anyway, it was fine and we ate it all up, but if I were to make something similar again, I think I’d really just take the pan-sauce version I mentioned above (that sauce was so good!) and add fennel.

For the recipe, see Everyday Dorie by Dorie Greenspan, and head over to Cook the Book Fridays to see how the group liked this one.

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lemon and fennel are so wonderful together! Two of my favorites that like each other.

Comment by Dorothy's New Vintage Kitchen— February 12, 2024 #

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At least if it wasn’t a favorite you can salvage the chicken by shredding it and using it for something else haha. Even if you didn’t love how it tasted, it looks stunning 😍

Comment by isthisakeeper— February 13, 2024 #

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- yes- good for enchiladas!!
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— February 14, 2024 #
  
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This is such a stunning looking chicken…truly beautiful. I would love to sit down to this and the veggies you added to it. Yum.

Comment by Kayte Gerth— February 14, 2024 #

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a whisk and a spoon