Butter and brown sugar on a roast chicken

[Lardlizard]

Never had that before but had it yesterday at a friends for lunch a full on Christmas style roast with pigs in blankets
Brussels with bacon lovely roast potatoes

Oh sorry! The of my thread was, how do you do this as this friend will not share the recipe !! 😵😵

Some friend!!

Blatantly joining the thread because I want to know too.

I imagine it’s just lashings of softened butter massaged all over the chicken and then some sugar sprinkled on top (if there was a crunchy caramelised quality). Otherwise some butter and sugar mixed together.
Exact quantities don’t matter, just make it up as you go along!

Friend is a dick! They won’t share their secret chicken recipe? Is your friend Colonel Sanders?

Google suggested this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptrRvBjPIKI

I would cook the chicken for half an hour first and then add the butter and sugar, otherwise you risk it burning by the time the chicken is done.

There is a Caribbean recipe called 'brown stew chicken' which starts off by caramelising sugar in oil, which you use to coat the meat before stewing.
It tastes amazing.

Your 'friend' had better watch out, she may be besieged by a throng of angry, hungry MNetters demanding the recipe!

Some cooks put butter under the skin, could they have done that, but with the sugar beaten into the butter before whacking it on/in?

Your friend sounds embarrassing OP how tragic- hardly a 'recipe' is it and she hardly made it up either people can be so strange. - Half a cup softened/half melted butter, quarter cup of brown sugar combined - rub it all over (under the skin as well if you can be botheted, sea salt and pepper it and cook as normal.