Are you new to Cooking Traditional “Nutrient Dense” Foods, feel overwhelmed, and don’t know where to start? In this video, I show you how to cook a roast chicken, which leads to the makings for chicken bone broth.
This recipe for Roast Chicken in a Cast Iron Skillet will start you on your Nourishing Traditions journey to create a Traditional Foods Kitchen. And you’ll find that making Nutrient Dense foods is easier than you think!
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- Why Roasting a Chicken Builds Confidence in Your Traditional Foods Journey
- Ingredients for Roasting a Chicken
- More Chicken Recipe Videos
- Chicken Bone Broth Recipe Videos
- The Modern Pioneer Pantry
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- Roast Chicken in a Cast Iron Skillet Recipe
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Why Roasting a Chicken Builds Confidence in Your Traditional Foods Journey
Roasting a chicken is one of the most reassuring—and empowering—first steps if you want to start a traditional foods lifestyle. It is a simple, nearly foolproof process that rewards even the newest cook with a nourishing, satisfying meal.
By preparing a whole chicken, you’ll learns to work with an ingredient that offers abundance: flavorful meat, mineral-rich drippings, and bones that you can transform into a deeply nourishing bone broth. This single ingredient teaches the foundational rhythm of traditional cooking—nothing wasted, everything used.
When your chicken emerges golden and crisp, you’ll gain confidence in your kitchen skills and be encouraged to take the next steps: making bone broth, saving the leftover meat for soups, and discovering the pleasure of creating several meals from one humble roast.
Your simple roasted chicken becomes both a hearty dinner and a gateway to the comforting and nutritious world of traditional, nutrient-dense cooking.
Ingredients for Roasting a Chicken
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More Chicken Recipe Videos
In addition to the first chicken meal that you make in a cast-iron skillet, here are more chicken recipes you can enjoy.
Chicken Bone Broth Recipe Videos
After enjoying your chicken meal, be sure to save the bones to make chicken bone broth. This broth will give you a delicious base for soups, make rice dishes more nutritious, and help you on your journey from transitioning your kitchen from processed foods to traditional foods.
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Roast Chicken in a Cast Iron Skillet
Ingredients
- 1 Raw whole chicken 2-4 pounds in weight
- 3-4 Potatoes, unpeeled cut in half and then each half cut in quarters
- 6 Carrots, peeled cut into thirds
- 4 Onions, peeled cut into quarters
- 1/4 cup Butter, melted
- 2 teaspoons Coarse ground Celtic sea salt
- 1 teaspoon Ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°F (218°C).
- Place carrots on the bottom of the cast iron pan to create a rack.
- Salt the chicken cavity with 1 teaspoon of salt.
- Place chicken on top of carrots into the pan. Tuck the wings under the chicken body. (See video.) Tie chicken legs together with twine.
- Place onions and potatoes around chicken in pan.
- Brush melted butter over chicken and vegetables. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Place pan into the oven. Lower oven temperature to 375°F (191°C). Cook chicken to an internal temperature of 165°F-185°F (74°C-85°C) or until the juices run clear and there is no sign of pink or red meat when the chicken is sliced. Enjoy!
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