Secrets of the Best Chefs

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Buttermilk-Marinated Roast Chicken


Serves 2 to 4


When you make fried chicken, sometimes you soak it in buttermilk
the night before to tenderize it. The same concept applies here,
except instead of frying the chicken, you’re going to roast it whole.
And the finished chicken—which before it was soaked in
buttermilk, was seasoned aggressively with salt—will be
delectably tender and moist and packed with flavor. Take heed,
though: because of all that buttermilk, the chicken will bronze in
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