Mushroom-Leek Bread Stuffing with Herbs

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2005

    

Could kitchen shears and some aluminum foil origami eliminate overcooked meat, stingy amounts of undercooked stuffing, and the need for trussing?

SERVESEnough for 1 butterflied chicken

TIME1¼ hours

Mushroom-Leek Bread Stuffing with Herbs

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We ensured moist, savory meat for our roast stuffed chicken recipe by brining the bird before we stuffed and roasted it. Our most radical idea, however, was to make an aluminum foil bowl, mound the stuffing into it, and place the chicken—af...

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