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Roast Chicken with Fines Herbes Pan Sauce
A heavily salted, trussed chicken roasted hot in a skillet, then a sauce built in the same pan by twice reducing wine and water over the stuck skin and juices, thickened with beurre manié and finished with fines herbes.

- Yield4 servings from one chicken
- Hands-on55 min
- Total2 h 12 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
Chicken
- 1roasting chicken (1.4–1.8 kg), neck kept, liver removed
- 1 tbspkosher salt
Sauce
- 15 gunsalted butter, softened
- 1 tbspall-purpose flour
- 1 tbspfines herbes (parsley, tarragon, chervil, chives), finely chopped, stems reserved
- 1medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 1large carrot, thinly sliced
- 240 mldry white wine
- 480 mlwater, hot, used in two additions
- 2 tspshallot, minced
- 1 tspcanola oil, for the shallot
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