3 Ingredient Roaster Chicken Brine
A roaster chicken brine is really as simple as 3 ingredients: water, salt, and sugar - that's it. The rest of the ingredients most people use are surface treatments at best (marinate with them instead).
Ingredients
Brine
- 10 cups tap water
- 4.5 tbsp table salt
- 2 tbsp + 3/4 tsp dextrose (*See notes)
Instructions
- Combine 10 cups tap water, 4.5 tbsp table salt, and 2 tbsp + 3/4 tsp dextrose in a pot.
- Stir until salt and dextrose dissolve completely.
- Submerge chicken in brine.
- Refrigerate for 16-24 hours.
- The next day, remove chicken from brine and rinse under cold water.
- Pat chicken dry with paper towels and then proceed with the rest of your process.
Notes
Do not brine longer than 24 hours or meat will become too salty.
If using Diamond Crystal kosher salt instead of table salt, double the salt amount to 9 tbsp.
For white sugar or brown sugar use 1 tbsp + 3/4 tsp instead of dextrose as dextrose is 20% less sweet.