Perfect Pan-Roasted Chicken Thighs

Ingredients

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Chicken thigh

  Broilers or fryers, meat and skin, cooked, fried, batter

  600g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  1 dash or 0.1g

• Salt

  Table

  1 dash or 0.4g

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 475F. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a 12" cast-iron or heavy nonstick skillet over high heat until hot but not smoking. Nestle chicken in skillet and cook 2 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-high; continue cooking, occasionally rearranging chicken thighs and rotating pan to evenly distribute heat, about 12 minutes.
2. Transfer skillet to oven and cook 13 more minutes. Flip chicken; continue cooking until meat is thoroughly cooked. through, about 5 minutes longer. Transfer to a plate; let rest 5 minutes before serving.