What is an Amish chicken?
A. Amish chickens are raised uncaged and fed carefully developed diets to provide a larger bird (up to 4 pounds) at a younger age which is of superior quality. They can usually be categorized as all natural or organic and as a gourmet or specialty food. According to our Executive Chef, John Csukor, Amish chickens are available through many specialty stores such as Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, and others. He said to look for a local supplier who deals in natural, organic, up-scale and gourmet meat products. Free range chicken would be a good substitute. If you must make this substitution, however, he suggested that you select smaller and younger birds so that they will be very tender because the cooking times and temperatures in this recipe do not allow for tenderizing an older bird.
