The Willard Room's Alsatian Chicken Baeckeoffe

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This "undercover" crockery is made successful a ample ceramic baeckeoffe, but a Le Creuset-style oval Dutch oven tin beryllium used. The dough seal helps marque the crockery authentic; it tin beryllium omitted if you tightly seal the cookware opening with a portion of aluminum foil, past screen it with a snug-fitting cookware lid.

The look calls for preserved lemons; spot the related look for Quick Preserved Lemons, oregon you tin bargain preserved lemons astatine immoderate Whole Foods markets (an olive barroom item) and astatine Middle Eastern markets. Frozen artichoke bottoms whitethorn beryllium substituted for the caller ones and are disposable astatine Whole Foods Markets.

Adapted from Nicolas Legret, cook de cuisine astatine the Willard Room successful the Willard InterContinental Hotel successful downtown Washington.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 2 generous servings

For the dough collar (optional)

3 1/2 cups to 3 3/4 cups flour, positive much for the enactment surface
3/4 cupful lukewarm h2o (about 85 degrees)
1 spoon positive a tiny pinch of salt
1 ample ovum yolk, for glazing the dough collar

For the chickenhearted and vegetables

1/2 preserved citrus (see headnote)
1/4 cupful citrus juice, for acidulating the artichoke soaking water
3 tiny (about 12 ounces total) artichokes (may substitute 5 ounces peeled celeriac, from which 1/2-inch-thick curved pieces are cut; reserve successful acidulated h2o until acceptable to use)
1 1/3 pounds Roseval potatoes (may substitute Yukon Gold fingerlings; spot NOTES)
2 mean (about 9 ounces total) vine-ripened tomatoes
2 tablespoons olive oil
6 (about 8 ounces total) fastener (baby) oregon cipollini onions, peeled and trimmed
4 mean cloves garlic, peeled
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
3 pounds young chicken, preferably air-chilled, specified arsenic Bell & Evans oregon Smart Chicken brand, excess tegument trimmed
2 sprigs rosemary
Leaves from 1 sprig of thyme, finely chopped
Leaves from 2 stems of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
2/3 cupful homemade chickenhearted broth, preferably affluent chickenhearted broth (see NOTES)
1/4 cupful store-bought chickenhearted glace, specified arsenic Glace de Poulet Gold brand
6 1/2 tablespoons adust achromatic wine, specified arsenic sauvignon blanc

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
740
Fat
34 g
Saturated Fat
8 g
Carbohydrates
75 g
Sodium
340 mg
Cholesterol
88 mg
Protein
36 g
Fiber
13 g
Sugar
20 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Nicolas Legret, cook de cuisine astatine the Willard Room successful the Willard InterContinental Hotel successful downtown Washington.

Tested by Steven L. Katz and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published March 12, 2026