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[Baygham]

Bake chicken at 350 degrees F. for 30 to 40 minutes.

To be sure that it is cooked thoroughly, use a instant digital Cooking or Meat Thermometer for the proper temperature of 165 degrees F (very important as uncooked chicken is a health risk and you will need to practice to eye ball it in the future, over cook it and it is like rubber). I use something like the one below, you can keep the oven door close and stick it in meat/chicken with it.

Polder 307 Deluxe Preset Digital Oven Thermometer

After desired cooking temperature is reached, remove meat from heat source and let stand 10 to 15 minutes before carving. The amount of time required for resting varies with the size of the cut of your meat. During this resting time, the meat continues to cook (meat temperature will rise 5 to 20 degrees after it is removed from the heat source) and the juices redistribute.

If the max temp of your oven is between 200-275 it is celcius, if it is 450-500 it is F.

You can convert F to C using google or that 5/9 plus 32 formula.

[Feroza_Banu]

i set the temperature to 400F
and i set the time 1 hour

after half n hour i check ti just to make sure its cooking properly
then after every 15 minutes i check it again.

the way you know its cooked is that the chicken skin turns brownish... u can decide to cook it for more to make it crispy or less to make it softer

[Feroza_Banu]

Let me share a recipe of mine, I hope it works for you.

You will need:

1 whole chicken, with the skin
1 cup cream cheese
2 tbsp garlic (and a few extra whole cloves)
1 lemon
1 tsp ginger
1tbsp vege stock/1 cube/salt to taste
A few leaves of parsley (not a core ingredient, only a preference)

Method:

Blend the cheese, garlic, ginger, parsley, and your preferred seasoning in a blender until they're spreadable. Without removing the skin, carefully 'tuck' this paste under each skin layer. In the meantime, your oven should be preheating, and while that is happening, put a lemon and garlic in a pan to roast them. This doesn't need much time. You only need a tangy fragrance to know when these are done. Remove them from the oven and put them 'inside' the chicken. Put the whole the chicken in the oven on high heat - 210 celcius - for about forty minutes.

And, that's it. Not a very long or lengthy process. Noshi jaan de. =)

thanks i will try this inshaAllah

[Toramana]

Thanks all for the tips...Actually, I am baking it for 1 hour at 400 F (205 C) ... I noticed I should do it more to make it crispy...e.g. 1 and 1/2 hours...

[Toramana]

Hay Aseer, it was very good today...The mistake I used to make before was that I didn't bake it for enough time (1 hrs:15 min) ...Today, I applied the tricks learnt here and it came out very nice ... crispy...

will paste pictures when i have the camera...

[Laila]

^ Tormana, the best advice my mother gave me for learning how to cook, is you will make plenty of mistakes.

I have to learn now, my father is forcing me :D and i always mess up each time. But thats how i learn. Once, my meat was not cooked all the way, and the onions was burnt lol......but i learned from that.

But, dude i gotta give props to you.....a man learning how to cook >>>

[Toramana]

Hahaha, that happens to me rarely ... i am super cautious while cooking so nothing gets burnt...the only thing I lack is cooking ideas/creativity...

[Laila]

^ Buy plenty of recipe books....like American dishes, it will give you plenty of creative ideas. Afghan dishes are the same old same old, nothing quite new to it if you know what i mean.

[Toramana]

Ok, I will try ... American dishes ...