This recipe came straight from my c\u00f4te de b\u0153uf au beurre d’ail r\u00f4ti. I loved that butter so much that I knew I had to make a version for chicken. I added lemon zest to lighten things up, kept the fresh thyme, and bumped it up to two full heads of garlic. Roasted for 45 minutes in foil, the cloves turn golden, sweet, and creamy, and you mash them right into softened butter. Half the butter gets melted and brushed over the legs halfway through cooking, while the other half stays cold to drop a knob on each piece at serving time.<\/p>\n
This is the one detail that separates crispy skin from soggy skin, and almost nobody talks about it. Eight whole chicken legs on a single pan. They touch each other, steam gets trapped between the pieces, and the skin never crisps up, no matter how hot your oven is. If you only have one pan, do two batches instead of crowding. It’s really worth it. When the skin is properly dried and properly spaced, it dries out, puffs up, and gets absolutely insane.<\/p>\n
This isn’t a complicated recipe, and that’s pretty much what I love about it. Last night I had my girlfriend and a friend over, served this with a big garden salad, green onions, cucumber and a balsamic vinaigrette, and everyone went wild. Don’t be shy about serving chicken legs to guests: the roasted garlic butter does all the work, and eight legs feed six people without you spending your whole afternoon in the kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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