Medium
American
Buttermilk-Brined Roast Chicken
A whole bird brined overnight in salted buttermilk, roasted hot until the skin blisters.
Ingredient
Black pepper
Pre-ground pepper loses its aromatics within weeks and leaves only the heat, which is the whole argument for a grinder. Added early it turns bitter in a long braise, so most of it goes in near the end.
- Sourcing
- Buy peppercorns whole. Tellicherry berries are picked later and larger, and are worth the small premium if pepper is doing real work in a dish.
- Varieties
- Tellicherry, Malabar, Lampong, Sarawak
- Quality cues
- Whole berries should be uniform, hard and intensely aromatic when crushed. Dusty, shrivelled berries have lost their oils.
- Substitutions
- White pepper, Sichuan peppercorn
- Storage
- Airtight, away from heat and light. Fill the grinder from a jar rather than storing it all in the grinder.
- Shelf life
- Whole 3-4 years; ground about 4 months before it flattens
Nutrition
Per 100 g
- Calories
- 251 kcal
- Protein
- 10.4 g
- Fat
- 3.3 g
- Carbs
- 64 g
- Fibre
- 25.3 g
- Sugars
- 0.6 g
- Sodium
- 20 mg
From USDA FoodData Central (#170931). Raw, edible portion.
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