Elle's Kitchen: Bundt Pan Chicken Test

I must confess,  I fail at roasting chickens.

I have tried, my Mum has talked me through it

by long-distance phone calls, I've watched the

Barefoot Contessa roast all those chickens

for Jeffery but it's no good, something always

goes wrong.

I saw this idea on Pinterest and thought I would

give it a try for the following reasons:

1.  It looked like fun.

2. I don't get to use my bundt pans all

that often now that my kids are grown.

3.  I started thinking of those chickens roasting

in the windows in Paris and the drippings that

fall down onto diced new potatoes ~ you know,

the places that smell so good you start to

salivate like a hungry dog.

4. Maybe I could roast a chicken successfully!

The directions were to fill the bundt pan with

potatoes, onions and carrots and place the

chicken on the center post.

When I put the veggies in the pan they

filled the pan almost to the top, there

was about 1/2" of the post showing.

Hmmm....

Do I have a tiny bundt pan or, do I have

an enormous chicken?

So I took everything out and placed the chicken

on the post and stuffed the veggies around it,

those I couldn't fit in the pan I placed on a cookie

sheet underneath the bundt pan.

I put it in the oven for the stated time and when

the timer went off I took it out and it looked pretty

good.  That is until I took the chicken out of the

pan.  The best way I can describe it is it looked

like it had tan lines.  The top that was sticking out

was crispy and brown but the part that was below

the veggies looked the same as it did when it went

in the oven. And the bundt pan was filled with

liquid, so I thought the chicken might be dry.

I put the chicken on the cookie sheet with the

veggies that were now hard as rocks and let it cook

a bit longer.  The veggies that were in the bundt

pan cooked in the chicken stock and they were

delicious.  We were hungry so we cut up the

chicken and happily it was moist and delicious!

It was the best roasted chicken I ever made.

I'm still not sold on the bundt pan method.

I'm thinking maybe an agel food pan wrapped in

foil may be bigger and could hold the chicken

and veggies.  I'll keep you updated on my progress...

Here is how it looked.