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BY THE CANADIAN LIVING TEST KITCHEN CHICKEN HOW-TO 2 Cataloguing data available from Bibliothèque et EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTOR Government of Quebec – Tax credit for book publishing – Archives nationales du Québec. FOR CANADA & USA Administered by SODEC. sodec.gouv.qc.ca Simon & Schuster Canada 07-15 166 King Street East, Suite 300 © 2015, Juniper Publishing, a division of Toronto ON M5A 1J3 This publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the Société Sogides Group Inc., a subsidiary of de développement des enterprises culturelles du Québec. Quebecor Media Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Tel: 647-427-8882 Toll Free: 800-387-0446 All rights reserved. Fax: 647-430-9446 Legal deposit: 2015 Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec simonandschuster.ca We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council Library and Archives Canada for the Arts for its publishing program. ISBN 978-1-988002-08-8 Printed in Canada canadianliving.com/books We acknowledge the financial support of our publishing activity art director project editor copy editor indexer by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund Colin Elliott Tina Anson Mine Lisa Fielding Beth Zabloski for our publishing activities. CANADIAN LIVING | THE COMPLETE CHICKEN COOKBOOK CHICKEN HOW-TO 4 FROM OUR KITCHEN Chicken dinners are always big, big winners. In the Canadian Living Test Kitchen, we love creating delicious recipes for chicken. You’d think we would have run out of ideas after 40 years, but chicken is such a versatile ingredient that it just never gets boring. We consider it a delightful—and tasty—challenge to keep coming up with fresh and inspiring ways to prepare it. Chicken fits seamlessly into every global cuisine and every occasion. Plus, it’s well within just about everyone’s “tastebud comfort zone”—the mild flavour of chicken is universally pleasing. It’s a hit in households across the country, the continent and the world. When you hear the word “chicken,” any number of taste memories might jump to mind, whether it’s tucking into a warm, comforting chicken pot pie at your grandparents’ house, carving a classic Sunday roast served with velvety gravy, snatching up pieces of crispy-skinned fried chicken at a summer picnic or digging into a saucy stir-fry on a busy Wednesday night. In this cookbook, we’ve gathered together all of those chicken classics—and then some. We don’t want you to ever run out of interesting ways to cook one of your THE CANADIAN LIVING TEST KITCHEN favourite ingredients, so within these pages you’ll find Clockwise from top left: Annabelle Waugh, enough recipes to introduce a different chicken dish every Irene Fong, Amanda Barnier, Leah Kuhne, Gilean Watts and Jennifer Bartoli. week for three years straight and still have plenty to spare. That’s what I call a winning strategy. Eat well! Our Tested-Till-Perfect guarantee means we’ve tested every recipe, using the same grocery store ingredients and household appliances as you do, until we’re sure you’ll get perfect results at home. CHICKEN CURRY IN A HURRY (PAGE 55) EASY CHICKEN CORDON BLEU WITH ROASTED SWEET POTATO SALAD (PAGE 71) 6 MIDDLE EASTERN COUSCOUS BOWL (PAGE 195) CONTENTS 8 CHAPTER 1 CHICKEN HOW-TO 14 CHAPTER 2 BREASTS, CUTLETS & TENDERS 84 CHAPTER 3 THIGHS, DRUMSTICKS & LEGS 154 CHAPTER 4 WINGS, BURGERS & MORE 196 CHAPTER 5 WHOLE CHICKENS 246 CHAPTER 6 STOCKS, SOUPS & STUFFINGS 292 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 293 INDEX CHICKEN HOW-TO 8TIP FROM THE TEST KITCHEN If you notice the skin drying out as it roasts, spoon the pan juices over top to keep it moist. CANADIAN LIVING | THE COMPLETE CHICKEN COOKBOOK 1 CHAPTER CHICKEN HOW-TO