The Wole Bird - Chicken 4 Ways Japanese Style (by G)

This dinner is what I was going to attempt last weekend but got too lazy to do.

Basically the plan was to cut a whole chicken into a whole bunch of parts and cook them each slightly differently. After breaking a little bird into legs, thighs, wings and breasts I marinated each slightly differently - mostly just a combination of miso, soy, garlic, ginger, mirin, sometimes oil.

Once everything was marinated I oven roasted the legs and wings (actually, the wings got a soaking in sake then were coated in salt, white pepper and black pepper) and pan fried the chicken breast along with skewered up pieces of thigh meat.

I had the pan set pretty high at the beginning - I'd meant to turn it down once the breasts went in but forgot, so those particular parts of the chicken got a little over brown.

So that dinner was not just a pile of chicken parts I also boiled some soba noodles and mixed through some Asian greens (without which dinner would have been vegetableless).

The chicken wings were way too over salty and some of the other parts were a bit dark on the outside (but moist inside), otherwise dinner was not too bad. In hindsight I'd rather just pay someone else go to all the trouble of the various preparations - then they can deal with the washing-up.