What are the ingredients of salt chicken: chicken and salt. There is perhaps a second easier of this?
The characteristic of this dish is the salt crust that covers the chicken and that protects it during cooking.
The heat spreads slowly inside the salt crust and the temperature remains constant.
With this cooking method the meat remains soft and juicy, it does not lose its flavor and above all it cooks without fat. This is therefore one very light and dietetic recipe, ideal for those who are attentive to the line.

The recipe of salt chicken

Arrange abundant coarse salt (the layer must be at least 2 cm thick both on the base and on the surface) on the bottom of an oven pan large enough to contain the whole chicken.
Choose a free-range chicken and clean it up well eliminating the entrails. Brush the inside with lemon juice and dry the outside skin with kitchen paper.
Fill the chicken from the back with a bit of garlic and rosemary sprigs and tied the legs with a kitchen string. Cover it with plenty of coarse salt and, if you want an even more compact rind, add to the coarse salt egg whites until stiff.
Bake at 200 ° for about an hour and a half and then let the chicken rest out of the oven for about 15 minutes.
Break the crust from the ends and very gently. Serve the portioned chicken, eliminating excess salt on the skin.

Ideal side dishes

Baked chicken is fine with everything.
The ideal outline is the classic potatoes crunchy outside and soft in the heartbut if you want something lighter they will be fine too a mixed salad or grilled vegetables.
But already that you have turned on the oven why not prepare a pan of seasonal vegetables?
Broccoli, cauliflower, red turnip, brussels sprouts and shallot they are a perfect combination. Season with oil, salt and pepper and cook together at 200 ° for about 25-30 minutes in a static oven.

Creative recycling

The salt chicken is good freshly baked, so eat it right away when it's still hot.
But, attention, what is left is not thrown away, but recycled. With the advanced chicken you can prepare one cesar salad with lettuce, croutons of bread and Parmesan flakes, but also of the meatballs to be cooked in a pan, in oven or fried. Simply mix the meat with an egg, grated parmesan, parsley, salt and pepper and breadcrumbs soaked in milk. Then, once the meatballs are made, put them in breadcrumbs and cook them. But if you want you can also use the advanced chicken for prepare a pasta. Add it into small pieces in a simple sauce of zucchini with sautéed onion and peas and season with plenty of Parmesan cheese a short pasta. Find out here all the ways to recycle the advanced chicken.