Buttered Chicken

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb unsalted butter
• 1/4 cup chopped garlic
• 1 tablespoon summer savory
• 2 tablespoons kosher salt
• 2 tablespoons ground black pepper
• 4 chicken breast halves, bone in skin on
• 2 tablespoons seasoning salt
• 1 tablespoon olive oil

Recipe

• 1 let butter come to room temperature.
• 2 add garlic, savory, salt and pepper.
• 3 mix in a stand mixer with a wire whisk attachment until butter lightens in color and increases in volume.
• 4 scrape out of mixing bowl and put into an airtight container for storage.
• 5 while still soft, spoon compound butter into a 1 quart zipper bag and cut off a corner.
• 6 with a small knife, make a small cut in the chicken to get the corner of the bag under the skin of the chicken.
• 7 squeeze butter under chicken skin until there is enough butter to form a thin layer over most of the meat.
• 8 season both sides of the chicken with the seasoning salt.
• 9 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 10 heat a large skillet over med-high heat.
• 11 add oil and place chicken in skin side down when oil is hot.
• 12 sear skin side and flip when it turns brown, no more than 1 minute.
• 13 once all breasts are flipped, place skillet in the oven and cook chicken to an internal temp of 170°f.
• 14 if you are grilling instead, start cooking chicken skin side down over direct heat until skin turns golden.
• 15 flip chicken over and move to indirect heat until internal temp reaches 170°f.