Here is a chicken recipe that will give you a tender, juicy, fall of the bone kind of chicken.
Cooking with a slow cooker is one of the easiest ways to have a healthy, deliciously well prepared meal ready for you when you get home after a long day. Slow cooking the meat improves the digestibility and avoids any possible charring. Charring can oxidize compounds in the meat and can be potentially carcinogenic.
When I cook I prefer to use simple ingredients in their original form; the less processing the better! You can use when you have, but the closer it is to fresh the more healthy it is, and the better it will taste. We are lucky to have a small herb garden in the back yard, so I went out and grabbed some fresh sprigs of rosemary and purple sage leaves. Rosemary is a favourite of mine when roasting meat whether chicken or red meat. My blog post title is a reference to a favourite Foo Fighters song of mine if you are also a fan.
So prepping this first thing in the morning only takes a few minutes and keeps you anticipating that home cooked smell when you open your door after your day is finished.
Ingredients
One whole naturally raised chicken.
3/4 cup organic vegetable broth (or chicken broth)
1/4 cup white wine or apple cider vinegar
3-5 cloves (depending on size) of garlic. Pressed and chopped.
2 chopped shallots
2 sprigs of Rosemary
3 sage leaves. I used purple sage.
Sea salt
Peppercorns
Place chicken in slowcooker, wings facing up.
Poor broth and wine over top of chicken.
Throw chopped shallots and crushed garlic inside pot randomly.
Place Rosemary sprigs and leaves on chicken.
Crack Himalayan or sea salt and pepper on chicken.
Cover and let it be for 6 hours on low.
Once finished you can remove all the meat and leave the remains in the slow cooker to use if you would like to make chicken broth.
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