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What Are Broiler fryers and How Can I Use Them?

If broiler fryers have turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use them with confidence and how to choose them, cook them, store them, what to substitute, and 13 recipes to try them in.

In Chinese:
肉鸡锅
British (UK) term:
Broiler fryers
en français:
friteuses de chair
en español:
freidoras de engorde

Recipes using broiler fryers

There are 13 recipes that contain this ingredient.

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Chicken& Vegetables with Gravy

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Whole chicken slow-cooked on a bed of potatoes, carrots, onions, and celery with basil and seasoned salt. The cooking liquid turns into a savory thyme and soy sauce gravy.

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Tarragon Chicken Salad

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Tarragon chicken salad dressed in a light yogurt sauce built on a white wine, shallot, and fresh tarragon reduction, then plated with new potatoes and crisp green beans. A composed, mayo-free chicken salad.

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Poulet En Casserole

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Poulet en casserole is a French country classic: whole roasted chicken braised in white wine and rosemary with tender potatoes, carrots, and onions. One pot, one oven.

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Garlic-Ginger Chicken with Sweet Potatoes

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Garlic-ginger chicken baked with sweet potatoes in a sweet-savory soy, sherry and brown sugar glaze. Chicken and tender sweet potato medallions roast in one dish, then go over steamed rice with a scatter of green onion.

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Salt-Smothered Chicken

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Salt-smothered chicken buried in a bed of red-hot rock salt with ginger, tangerine peel, and Szechuan peppercorn marinade sealed in the cavity. An ancient Cantonese technique that steams the bird to silken tenderness.

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Barbecued Chicken in a Bag

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Oven-bag barbecued chicken with homemade tangy BBQ sauce. Easy hands-off cooking method keeps chicken tender and juicy in 1 hour.

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Deep-Dish Chicken Pie

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Deep-dish chicken pie from scratch with poached chicken, carrots, celery, baby lima beans, and mushrooms in a creamy half-and-half sauce, under a hand-rolled egg-washed pastry lid. Sunday supper royalty.

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Provencial Chicken C/P

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Provencal chicken slow cooker (crock pot): chicken pieces braised with bacon, shallots, tomato, red wine, and Mediterranean herbs. 8 hours on low for a restaurant-worthy French-Italian-Spanish fusion.

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Chicken Marengo Ii

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Breaded chicken pieces cooked in the microwave with sauterne wine, mushrooms, and tomatoes. A quick shortcut version of the classic French Chicken Marengo.

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Grandma's Chicken & Dumpling Soup

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Grandma's chicken and dumpling soup with hand-made broth, cream of chicken and mushroom soups, vegetables, and feathery drop dumplings. A Midwestern comfort-food classic built for big gatherings.

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Sinigang Na Manok(Chicken in Sour Broth)

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Sinigang na manok features chicken sauteed with garlic and tomatoes, then simmered in a sour tamarind broth with icicle radish and peppery mustard greens. A hearty Filipino one-pot meal.

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Garlic Mud Chicken

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Garlic mud chicken roasted under a thick paste of 50 garlic cloves, olive oil, Cajun spice, and flour that bakes into a crispy, flavor-sealing crust. Seriously garlicky.

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Microwave Oven-Fried Chicken

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Microwave oven-fried chicken gives you a crisp, paprika-flecked crumb crust with no oil and no mess. Coated in seasoned bread and cornflake crumbs, it cooks in the microwave and tastes great hot or cold.

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