Chicken under a brick modified from M&M's restaurant

[Chancellor]

Take a split chicken breast and debone it. Lightly season with your favorite chicken spices. I used rosemary, garlic and salt. Heat a saute pan to screaming hot and put the chicken in skin side down. Put a HEAVY cast iron pan (or a brick covered in tin foil) on top of the chicken and cook til the skin is NICELY browned.
Remove the brick or cast iron pan and place in a 350 degree oven with skin side now up until completely cooked through. Time will vary depending on the chicken breast.
This was accompanied by brussels sprouts sliced in half and sauted til nicely browned on the sliced side. Drizzle honey over the top of the brussels sprouts and then add balsamic vinegar to the pan.

Also pesto mashed potatoes. I boiled the red skin potatoes til tender. Ground up some fresh basil, garlic, onion (not usually in pesto but good with potatoes) and parmesan cheese. Dumped that into the potatoes, mashed them with a little cream. Voila. Dinner.
Served everything with a little pan sauce from the chicken. It was delicious! And we even have leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

[Rosie B]

That sounds incredible!! I'll have to pick up some brussel sprouts and some chicken.

[WheresMyWhite]

Sounds yummy.... wonder if it would work as well with deboned thighs...

[Paints]

Nothing browns a skin like spatchcocked chicken under pressure. Yummmmmm.

[texsuze]

From the subject line, I thought someone's chook had become trapped under a building ....!

[PaulaO]

Would someone come to my house tonight and make this for me????

I love the word chook.

[KathyK]

Time will vary depending on the chicken breast.

Approximate time?

[M&M]

I'm so glad you're having it with pesto mashed potatoes. Sometimes gilding the lily isn't a bad idea!

[Larbear]

From the subject line, I thought someone's chook had become trapped under a building ....!

Me too!

[PaulaO]

Test test ignore

[hoopoe]

made my game hen this way today

done in about 20 minutes stove top to oven

I spatchcocked and removed the ribs and breast /keel. rubbed and refrigerated overnight. chili and lime

I used my Dutch Oven as brick and my cast iron skillet

[Chancellor]

Ooh, that sounds great Hoopoe

[hoopoe]

it really turned out well. Perhaps a little too long on the heat. I used my thermopen and it could have come out perhaps 2 minutes sooner