Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified
Worcestershire chicken
Savory glaze. Worcestershire, butter, garlic. Reduce until it clings. Don't pour a bottle on and call it a sauce.
The sheet · 2 plates · 25 min
easyWhy tonight. Savory glaze. Worcestershire, butter, garlic. Reduce until it clings. Don't pour a bottle on and call it a sauce.
What it needs
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- chicken
- worcestershire
- butter
- garlic
Method
- Salt the chicken and dry it, then brown it skin down and take it out.
- Garlic in the fat, then the Worcestershire, which will reduce almost immediately — it is mostly vinegar, anchovy and tamarind and it wants a splash of water behind it.
- Chicken back in, gentle heat, until through.
- Butter swirled in off the heat. Worcestershire is a savory bomb and butter is what makes it into a sauce rather than a marinade.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
Sequence, correction, heat and texture, equipment workarounds, scaling, and component reuse are available with this cook sheet.
An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.
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The technique underneath this
- Pan sauceTurning what stuck to the pan into a sauce. Two minutes of work at the end of something you already cooked.watery · too salty · greasy · broken · bitter
- Pie doughKeeping butter in visible pieces and gluten underdeveloped, which is the exact opposite of bread and trips everyone once.tough · shrank in the tin · greasy · cracked when rolled · soggy bottom
Going wrong while you cook it? Say what it is doing and the triage will tell you what is happening, the smallest move, and the instinct to resist.
Published minimums for what is in this
These are published minimums, not doneness preferences and not a verdict about any particular piece of food. Ground meat sits above whole cuts of the same animal because grinding moves the surface through the middle — the species is not the reason.
Watch the technique behind this one
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- Salt and seasoning3 Salting Methods for Better-Tasting Meats | Techniquely With Lan LamAmerica's Test KitchenThree salting timings on the same cut, and what the wait actually does to the texture.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Produce prepHow To Mince GarlicAmerica's Test KitchenSmashing and mincing a clove down to something that cooks evenly instead of burning in pieces.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Roasting poultryHow to Properly Roast a Chicken | Kenji's Cooking ShowJ. Kenji López-AltA whole-bird method that checks doneness with a thermometer instead of by wiggling the leg.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- chicken
- Two different foods depending on the cut.
- worcestershire
- Anchovy, tamarind and vinegar pretending to be a condiment.
- butter
- Flavor and body in the same spoonful.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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