This recipe is so easy and so smart.

I tried it that weekend, and the result was so incredible that I’ve never looked back.

It was the juiciest meat I’d ever tasted, surrounded by perfectly golden, crispy skin.

Headshot of Samin Nosrat wearing a colorful shirt next to a plate of well-browned chicken pieces

Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek

The prep is super simple and delivers quality results with almost no active workbesides a bit of advance planning.

It’s cooking as both a science and an art but without pretension.

I typically turn those intosandwichesandsaladsthe next day.

Side view of a roasted chicken in a round baking dish

Simply Recipes / Kris Osborne

It delivers such great results and requires minimal effort.

What more could I ask for?

(This is a great time to prep some veggies.)

Rest the chicken for about 10 minutes, then dig in!

If you make just one new chicken recipe this year, let it be this one.