Well this is the homemade version of rotisserie chicken! Its called Fauxtisserie Chicken. Clever! You can find it on page 110 in the cookbook or online here.
This is a slow cooker recipe. You start by putting three foil balls in the bottom of your crockpot. The point of this is to hold the chicken up, so the hot air can circulate around the chicken and so its not cooking in its own juices.
Then you rise off the chicken, including the cavity, and pat dry with paper towels. I hate this part. I really don't like cooking a whole chicken or turkey, because I can tell what all the parts are since they're all still connected. Ugh!!
Next you loosen the skin (sick!) around the entire chicken without removing it. Then put the garlic under the skin.
Next you rub seasoning salt all over the skin.
Once it is all seasoned and ready to go, you place the chicken on the foil balls inside your crock pot. Cover and cook for 6-7 hours on low.
About halfway through the cooking process, I noticed that part of the chicken had slipped off the foil balls. Maybe I will try 4 balls next time.
Now don't go thinking that you'll pull the chicken out, put it on a platter and serve it looking like a whole chicken. It is so tender, it ends up looking more like this:
A pile of chicken! Still tasty but not so pretty...
There are several variations of this recipe, and I think it is intended that you pick one of them. The recipe that I made is a basic chicken recipe. Like, very basic. It was fine, but I would only make this version again if I was using the chicken in another recipe that called for cooked chicken. Definitely try one of the versions. That's what I will be doing next time.
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