Dinner tonight, ideas?

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But never longer than 2 hours in a brine for chicken breasts, or their texture turns mealy. But yes, brining will allow you to cook them for 40 minutes and still have moist chicken. Personally I don't brine chicken pieces as they are (99% of the time) pre-brined by the producer...

Some of us buy fresh...
You might find this interesting too: http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/11/the-food-lab-the-truth-about-brining-turkey-thanksgiving.html

My girlfriend can taste that the chicken hasn't been browned with garlic, and for some reason (it's Indian genes) it puts her off, even though a buttload of garlic is added later.

Yes, yes, we can . It tastes and smells disgusting if it hasn't, tbh.

 

[RanzB]

With so much garlic you will be putting her off soon

Haha, not really. She loves garlic even more than I do, but that won't matter here. The garlic cooks inside its skin and you're left with a sweet garlick, creamy paste that is amazing.

Yes, yes, we can . It tastes and smells disgusting if it hasn't, tbh.

I find that cooking it with garlic, even if you're not browning with garlic, adds a sufficient amount of the garlic flavour in it, but it puts her off.