roasted pecan chicken

How To Make roasted pecan chicken

• Step 1
  Cheese Spread: In a food processor combine pecans, goat cheese, garlic, olive oil, lemon juice and pepper to taste.
• Step 2
  Process until mixture forms a paste.
• Step 3
  Roast Chicken: Preheat oven to 400.
• Step 4
  Carefully loosen skin on chicken breast by gently working fingers under the skin starting from both the neck and body cavity ends.
• Step 5
  Be careful not to pierce or tear the skin.
• Step 6
  Spread cheese mixture in an even layer in chicken breast underneath the skin.
• Step 7
  Pull skin back over cheese layer and secure with wooden picks.
• Step 8
  Tie chicken legs together.
• Step 9
  Arrange chicken in a 13x9x2\" baking pan on a bed of onion and lemon slices.
• Step 10
  Add wine and 2/3 cup broth.
• Step 11
  Roast, uncovered, at 400 for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours until thermometer inserted between leg and thigh registers 180.
• Step 12
  Baste occasionally with pan juices during baking.
• Step 13
  If necessary, tent with foil toward end of cooking to prevent overbrowning.
• Step 14
  Remove chicken from pan and keep warm.
• Step 15
  Strain pan juices, discarding lemon and onion slices.
• Step 16
  Skim fat from pan juices.
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