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Dinner · 45 min · Amounts not specified

Garlic confit chicken

A lot of garlic in oil, chicken on top, thyme. The cloves should go sweet, not brown. Lemon at the end. Potatoes in the same fat if they fit.

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easy

Why tonight. A lot of garlic in oil, chicken on top, thyme. The cloves should go sweet, not brown. Lemon at the end. Potatoes in the same fat if they fit.

What it needs

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  • chicken
  • garlic
  • thyme
  • olive oil
  • lemon

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: potato.

Method

  1. A whole head of garlic, cloves peeled but whole, submerged in oil with the thyme and cooked at the barest heat until they are soft and pale gold. Twenty-five minutes, and it must not fry.
  2. Chicken salted and browned skin down in a separate pan, then the garlic and its oil poured over.
  3. Into a moderate oven together until the chicken is through.
  4. Lemon at the end and the cloves crushed into the pan juices. That oil is the actual product here — keep whatever is left for the rest of the week.

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What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
thyme
The most patient herb here — it survives long cooking, which almost nothing green does.
olive oil
Two ingredients sharing a name.
lemon
Acid you add at the end, not the start.

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