Chicken in a Pot

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2009

Though this cooking method has fallen out of favor, chicken in a pot still has appeal. We wanted to revive this satisfying, elegantly simple one-dish meal.

SERVES 4

TIME 1¾ hours, plus 20 minutes resting

Chicken in a Pot

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Older recipes for Chicken in a Pot called for submerging the bird in liquid and boiling it, but the drawback was that all the meat cooked at the same temperature, meaning that by the time the legs cooked, the breast meat was dried out. We t...

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