Curtis Stone's roast chicken thighs with grapes & rosemary

Intro

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if you're craving roast chicken and it's

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a middle of the week and you just don't

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have the time I have the solution it is

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these beautiful chicken thighs they cook

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much quicker than a whole chicken and

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they are absolutely delicious succulent

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and tender and they're really quite

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quick and easy to do I'm going to roast

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them with some grapes grapes are juicy

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and fantastic when they're roasted and

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I'm also going to roast some shalots

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with some Rosemary you will love this

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recipe so whether you're entertaining

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and you want to throw a beautiful dinner

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party or you just throw dinner together

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for the family in the middle of the week

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this is a wonderful way to do

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it let's get cooking I'll show you how

How to sear chicken thighs

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we do it we start off with a little bit

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of salt pour just a little bit of oil

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into your pan pepper of course and then

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grab those chicken thighs and stick them

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in oh yeah that's what you want to hear

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that little Sizzle now you might have to

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do this in two batches or if you've got

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a second pan you can do it that way too

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I've cut my peeled shots in half so I

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stick those into with a pan s of oil for

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those guys nice hot pan that's the real

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secret the next thing I'm going to do is

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make a beautiful glaze this is balsamic

How to make glaze

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vinegar I'm going to pour that straight

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on into a pan so we just let that reduce

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down I'm going to season this side

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before I turn let's have a

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look oh yeah see how we're already

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getting that beautiful color that is

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exactly what we want now the great thing

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about cooking the chicken thighs instead

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of a whole chicken is they're much

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smaller pieces so they cook way faster

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it's really quick very efficient

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TimeWise and absolutely delicious and

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then once you've got them golden brown

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it's only halfway cooked but then I just

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pick that up bring it over to your sheet

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tray and just slide it straight on

How to tray bake chicken thighs

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little bit of drizzle of the oil over

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the top and we do the exact same with

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the rest of the thighs now just before

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you remove this what I do is get a few

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Springs of Rosemary and I actually throw

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them into my pan you'll smell it almost

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instantly I okay once that's had a

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couple of minutes on the other side take

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your pan I'm just going to pick up some

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of those rosem sprigs and kind of drop

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them down like that slide that pan

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straight onto your sheet tray you take

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these grapes and we just Nestle Those

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Grapes wherever you find a gap grapes I

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know you probably haven't roasted them

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before or if you have not very often

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they really are a wonderful way to bring

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something really fresh and juicy great

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way to bring some sweetness to a dish

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and they roast beautifully we always

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think about eating them fresh but they

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really do roast really nicely okay this

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goes into the oven nice and hot you want

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it about 200° for about 10 minutes our

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chicken's in the oven the kids are

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getting excited cuz it already smells

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delicious I'm going to show you how we

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finish this dish off I've got a little

How to make crostinis

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bit of butter here and I'm just going to

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pop that into a uh pan just to melt it

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and what we're going to do is flavor it

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just gently with a little Rosemary so

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I've got a few sprigs of Rosemary and I

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kind of stir that around and let a

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little bit of that Rosemary flavor

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Infuse into the butter the next thing is

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I'm going to make some like little

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crustinis um I take that butter or that

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Rosemary and I butter my bread with it

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just like that so I'm kind of using it

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almost as a pastry brush you take this

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stick it straight over onto your grill

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and I can brush the other side of my

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bread okay once you sort of smell that

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bread turning into toast all you want to

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do is have a little peek oh yeah look at

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those beautiful charm marks we've

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already got on

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there right once you're happy with the

How to finish the glaze

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thickness of the glaze which I am I'm

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just going to kill the heat it's going

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to keep it nice and hot same with my

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bread I'm happy with the way this is

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toasted so I've just turn the heat off

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but I will leave the toast on here as

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this Grill continues to cool down

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because I want to be able to just keep

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that perfectly warmed oh that looks so

How to assemble

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good just going to lift up those

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beautiful

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thighs and the

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shellant now the way you know the

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chicken's cooked is you ask yourself did

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I follow Curtis's recipe because if you

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followed it then yes your chicken will

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be perfectly cooked but if you don't

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trust me that's okay I'm going to give

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you another little technique what you do

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is you take a sharp knife and you just

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prick into the center of that chicken

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push beside it if pink juice flows out

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you know that it's under right if it

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doesn't like mine then you know that

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that is perfectly cooked so go ahead and

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pour that gorgeous Jew all over the

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reason for the bread of course is all of

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that delicious juice so you just sort of

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Tuck that in and around it's going to

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soak up some of that beautiful je and

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don't forget that beautiful balsamic

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glaze so this again brings you a real

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acidity but also a delicious sweetness

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and I just drizzled that all the way

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over look at that beautiful next time

Final dish

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you've got a handker in for roast

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chicken don't forget grab some chicken

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thighs some grapes some shots you can

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have dinner on the table in 30 minutes

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the flavor of this is going to be

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Sensational I hope you love it if you

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