My swedish neighbour at portsdown just came back from a trip home and got us a jar of fleur de sel. (It's terribly sweet of them cos we sorta off handedly mention once that we find really good salt in Singapore overly expensive.)
I couldn't hide my glee when I got that lil pot of goodness and couldn't wait to try it out on a good recipe that just relies on good salt. I stumbled upon a roast chicken recipe from chubby hubby and it couldn't be more perfect. This recipe was so simple that I was initially doubtful. It only calls for good lug of olive oil, the best salt and some fresh thyme leaves but it was perfect to give my fleur de sel a good test drive.
I gave a 1.5kg chicken a good rub down with the salt, left it in the fridge overnight and popped it in the oven for dinner the next day. (i was really careful not to waste a single grain of this rather expensive salt)
The chicken came out AWESOME! The salt gave the juicy meat a tangy sweet savoury note, with the scent n flavours of fresh thyme....*drool* And oh, i threw in some whole garlic cloves at the side cos I know C loves roasted garlic.
It was my best roast chicken yet and it was so friggin simple. A perfect lazy tuesday night dinner meal.
Ok here's the photo from chubby hubby's site. Mine didn't come up as brown n pretty, i still don't know how to get my chicken to that even goldish brown color. Mine always ends up charred in some parts n not very brown in the others. But oh well, bet it was just as yummy =)
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