Cast Iron Cooking: Oven-Fried Chicken with Aromatic Spice Rub
Aromatic rub for oven fried chicken
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 6-8 pieces of chicken with skin and bone I used breasts, wings, legs. You can use various and adjust cooking times)
- olive oil
- lime juice
- spice rub see recipe below
- cast iron frying pan
Instructions
- One hour prior to preparing, rub chicken very lightly with olive olive oil, rub generously with rub, cover and bring to room temperature.
- minutes prior to cooking, preheat oven to 450 degrees. If you don’t have good ventilation, reduce heat to 400 degrees.
- minutes prior to cooking, put pan in oven to heat up. Rub with 1 to 2 teaspoons of olive oil.
- Make sure chicken pieces have enough rub on them. You may need to add more.
- Place in hot pan, skin side down. Put in lower part of oven.
- If cooking larger pieces (breasts) turn after 30 minutes. Cook 30 minutes more.
- If only cooking legs and thighs turn at 20 minutes.I cooked all pieces at same time and legs and wings were able to brown more, which we liked.
Notes
Buy a whole chicken and have your butcher cut it into pieces. Tell the butcher you want all pieces included the back, which you can freeze and use for soup.