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Chicken
Cooking Poultrg: General Directions
Preporethe poultry for cooking.
- Defrost completely.
- Arronge poultry pieces with thicker pieces
ot the outside edge of the boking dish.
When cooking legs, orronge them like
the spokes of o wheel.
- Cover the boking dish with woxed poper
to reduce spottering.
- Use o browning ogent or cook with o
souce to give o browned oppeoronce.
Wotch the poultry os it cooks.
- Droin ond discord juices os they
occumulote.
- Shieldthin or bony pieces with smoll strips
of oluminum foil to prevent overcooking.
Keep foil et leest 1 inch from the oven
wolls ond other pieces of foil.
Poultry is done when it is no longer pink
ond the juices run cleor.When done,
the temperoture in the thigh meot
should be 180-185°R
Let the poultry stond offer cooking covered
with foil for 10 minutes.
The Poultry Cooking Chort below provides
detoiled directions, Power Level,ond Cooking
Time settings for most cuts ond types
of poultry.
Chicken Cooking Chart
Chicken pieces HI
(2Y_-3 Ibs.)
whole
1-1V2 Ibs. each
HI
HI
Cooking time
4_/2-5 V2minutes
per pound
12-15 minutes
per pound
6-7 minutes
per pound
Directions
Before cooking, wosh pieces ond shoke the woter off.
Ploce pieces in o single Ioyer in o microwovoble boking
dish with thicker pieces to the outside. Brush with butter
or browning ogent ond seosonings if desired. Cover with
woxed poper. Cook until no longer pink ond juices run
cleor. Let stond covered 5 minutes.
Before cooking, wosh ond shoke off woter. Ploce breost-side
down on o microwovoble roosting rock. Brush with butter
or browning ogent ond seosoning if desired. Cover with
woxed poper. Cook 1/5 of estimoted time. Turn breost
side up, brush with butter, or browning ogent. Reploce
woxed poper. Cook 1/5 of estimoted time ogoin. Shield if
necessory. Cook remoining 1/5 of estimoted time or until
no longer pink ond juices run cleor. Let stond covered
with foil 10 minutes. (The temperoture moy rise obout 10°F.)
The temperoture in the thigh should be 180°F-185°F when
the poultry is done.
Before cooking, wosh ond shoke the woter off.
Tie wings to body of hen ond the legs to toil. Ploce hens
breost side down on o microwovoble rock. Cover with
woxed poper.Turn breost-side up holfwog through cooking.
Shield bone ends of drumsticks with foil. Remove ond
discord the drippings. Brush with butter or browning ogent
ond seosonings if desired. Cook until no longer pink ond
juices run cleor. Remove the hens from the microwove oven
when they reoch the desired temperoture. Let stond covered
with foil 5 minutes. (The temperoture moy rise obout 10°F.)
The temperoture in the breost should be 170°F before
serving.
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