Gwyneth Paltrow's Latest Project: Quick Roasted Chicken

by Sara Bonisteel, Posted Jul 24th 2009 @ 2:30PM

Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow has road-tripped through Spain with Mario Batali and Mark Bittman on "Spain On the Road Again," and the chefs' culinary know-how seems to be rubbing off.

The star of "Shakespeare in Love" has made a move towards her own cooking show with a roasted chicken how-to video she posted to her Web site Goop. During the nearly 8-minute video, the actress debones a chicken while talking about learning to cook while a 19-year-old student at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

"I was trying to be an actress as well so I kept driving down to LA to audition for movies, and my dad was there working. We sort of started getting into cooking together; we got sick of the frozen meatballs that were left in the freezer for us," Paltrow says. "It just became our thing. So we started watching a lot of cooking channels, and over the years its become a major passion."

Paltrow's Quick Roast Chicken and Potatoes after the jump.

Paltrow uses a whole chicken for her roasted dish with potatoes.

"My grandmother taught me how to wash chickens," she says, advising cooks to "take handfuls of kosher salt, wet the chicken with cold water, scrub inside and out, rinse and dry. So it's all nice and ready."

The actress sprinkles the bird with fresh lemon juice, salt, pepper and olive oil and stuffs its cavity with garlic, rosemary, sage and thyme. Around it, she places parboiled potatoes that she's shaken in an empty pot.

"It just kind of fuzzes the edge a little bit and then it's crispier," she says.

She cooks the bird covered at 450 degrees and then makes a fresh salad of lettuce, watercress ("lovely"), arugula ("it's just beauteous"), purple spring onion (cut on the bias), radishes, baby carrots (parboiled), fresh fava beans, and sweet English peas ("they're like candy -- they're incredible") with a champagne vinegar-mustard-maple syrup-olive oil vinaigrette.

"I feel inspired to cook all the time," Paltrow says. "Its sort of what I lie in bed and think about at night, which is maybe a problem, but It just makes me feel happy to think about food and think about new ways of combining things or what I like to try or what might be easy. I find it really relaxing, and I'm inspired by ingredients, you know. In Southern California, I mean, you just can't get any fresher than that. It's bananas."

[Via Dlisted]

Filed Under: Television/Film, Celebrities
Tags: goop, gwyneth paltrow, GwynethPaltrow, how-to, mario batali, MarioBatali, mark bittman, MarkBittman, roasted chicken, RoastedChicken

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7-25-2009 @3:30PM JEREMY said... THIS COULD BE A GREAT LITTLE SIDE VENTURE FOR GWYNETH WHEN SHE'S DONE WITH ACTING("COOKING WITH GWYNETH"). BRAD DOESN'T REALIZE WHAT HE THREW AWAY WITH ANISTON & JOLIE.NEITHER OF THEM COULD ROCK THE KITCHEN THE WAY GWYNETH DOES.
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7-26-2009 @12:20PM laura.stegall said... Gwyneth Paltrow follows a macrobiotic (ie, vegetarian) diet, but she's going to teach peoplehow to cook chicken?!
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7-27-2009 @8:03AM Oscar Silva said... I loved watching "On The Road Again" and it wasn't for the other two guys. That Gwyneth can cook is just that more special!
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7-27-2009 @10:44AM KB1952FL said... SHE'S A FRUITCAKE....I JUST WISH I COULD STAND THAT LONG WITHOUT MY BACK HURTING!
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7-27-2009 @12:57PM Patty said... I was bothered by her lack of cleanliness. She peeled potatoes and then threw them in a pot without washing them off. She used her cutting board for cutting a raw chicken and then cut her veggies on it. Maybe she cleaned it between takes, but she should have mentioned that.
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8-11-2009 @2:50AM Mortikee Balsova said... Is it just me or is there a bleeding cut on her left inner wrist?
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8-11-2009 @2:57AM Mortikee Balsova said... OOPS, It' a bracelet.Thank Goodness.
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9-13-2009 @3:08PM tkelly said... She needs a safety and Santation class.
BAD..... Wonder if the health dept saw this.
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1-10-2011 @7:14AM ivy said... So agree! Never saw her wash her hands or anything after handling the RAW chicken. Was that part edited out?
Shame on someone for not mentioning an edit or her for not using basic sanitation!!!
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