Roast chicken with crème fraîche and herbs from A Kitchen in France: A Year of Cooking in My Farmhouse by Mimi Thorisson

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  • caresan on May 06, 2026

    I’ve made this a few times and always comes out delicious. I will say with the crème fraiche mixture, you will have extra and only add as much as you need.

  • Stephenn31 on October 13, 2025

    I decided to do this for Thanksgiving (instead of turkey) and it turned out better than I had expected. Great aroma as it was baking, and the creme fraiche (I mixed Greek yogurt and milk, and let it sit for a few hours before adding in the rest of the ingredients) seemed to have tenderized the chicken. I did let the chicken rest at room temp with the creme fraiche and herb mix for about an hour before roasting which might have made a difference. The meat was deliciously flavoured. It did take slightly longer than the 1 hour at 350 for the 1.5kg bird to cook, but the skin on the breast meat did turn a nice brown by the end.

  • mharriman on June 12, 2019

    This was a disappointment. I followed the directions. My baked chicken looked nothing like the photo: The cream and herb mixture, put inside the chicken, melted away and was nonexistent upon carving. The thick outer cream and herb layer melted and ran into the bottom of the roasting pan while baking. The cream under the thighs and wings didn’t produce much flavor. The result of my efforts was a layer of baked on brown crust at the bottom of my roasting pan. The 350 temperature did not produce a cooked 3 pound chicken in an hour. Instead it reached 150 degrees at 100 minutes (which makes sense based on my many 400- 450 degree / 1 hour chicken recipes). In sum, the aroma coming from the oven is heavenly but the end result for me was disappointing as I could have just skipped the cream and garnered the same result. A non-repeater. This was also the first recipe I tried from this cookbook and now I’m wondering about the remainder of the recipes.

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