Today, I'm going to show you how to cook a whole roast chicken in less than half the time it would take in a regular oven. I roast a lot of whole chickens, and one of the things that's always frustrated me is the amount of time that they take to cook, at least a couple of hours in the oven for the average chicken. I don't know about you, but I don't like standing around waiting for two hours for my dinner to cook. So I was very excited when I discovered the Aroma Oven, a fantastic invention.
It's a little convection oven. In case you don't yet know the difference between a convection oven and a regular oven (which I didn't, I must admit), a convection oven pulls in air from the outside, heats it up and then churns it all around the food inside. Whereas, a regular oven just heats up the air that's already in it. So, the convection oven can cook food a lot faster and a lot more evenly than a regular oven can.
The Aroma Oven is a fantastic piece of equipment. Don't just use it for chicken, but for all kinds of things, even defrosting. It's very, very reasonably priced, and it's available at Mercola.com. So I heartily recommend that you go and check it out.
Delectable, Aroma-Oven-Roasted Whole Chicken:
Ingredients:
- 1 whole chicken (5-pound chicken in this case)
Supplies:
Preparation:
- Remove giblets from inside chicken, wash chicken well in cold, fresh water, inside and out, and pat dry.
- Wash hands, sink and surrounding area thoroughly.
- Place chicken in Aroma Oven, and place lid on top, pushing handle down. This turns oven on.
- Set to 400° F.
- Set cooking timer for 10 minutes per pound (50 minutes for 5-pound chicken in video)
- In 50 minutes (or 10 min per pound), you'll see what a fantastic, beautifully-browned, crisp, evenly cooked, lovely, moist, tender chicken you'll have, all thanks to the Aroma Oven.
That's it! It's incredibly simple! I haven't done anything technical to the chicken. I've just put it in there. I'm not a great believer in stuffing chickens full of garlic and butter and bits and bobs and ends. It takes far too long, and I can never tell the difference afterwards anyway. You may feel differently, but there you go. That's just me. Oh well, dinner time! Gotta go!