Solar Cooking: Chicken with New Potatoes and Asparagus

I'm getting addicted to cooking like this.  It's so easy, and any meat is so juicy because it's not loosing its liquid.  Tonight for dinner we are having Chicken, cooked with new potatoes and some asparagus.  The timing on this seems to be the biggest risk.

Recipe:

2 Chicken Breasts

4-5 New Potatoes (from our garden!)

1 bunch Asparagus

1/2 slice Onion

4 Baby Bella Mushrooms

1/4 cup Orange Juice

1 tbsp Herbs to Provence

1 tsp salt

1 tsp fresh cracked Pepper

4-5 Sprigs Fresh Rosemary

Pre-heat the solar oven.  *by noon the oven was at 350 degrees.  

1.  Put the chicken breasts and potatoes in the cookware and add sprigs of rosemary.

2.  Pours in the orange juice and add the herbs, salt, and pepper to the chicken.

3.  1/2 the baby bella's and place in the cookware.  1/2 the onion slice and place on the chicken.

4.  Place in oven 1.5 hours before dinner and re-aim the oven every 30 minutes also checking the moisture level in the cookware.  It shouldn't lose much.  More than likely, you'll have more than you want.

5.  After an hour, place the asparagus over the chicken for the last 30 minutes.

The result: 

The asparagus was just to the point of still being crunchy which is the way we liked it.

I wanted to show you how much liquid stayed in the container with only 1/4 cup OJ added.

Lastly, everything on a platter.  Once you slice the chicken, place it back in the juice, it will retain moisture as it cools.

The chicken was moist, the mushrooms and the potatoes were perfect and the asparagus was just the way we liked it.

Lessons learned:

1. Totally clear day all day, clouds came out 15 minutes after I put the chicken in.  Went from 360 degrees to 225 degrees!  Would put it in earlier and let the oven cool to a warm by not aiming it.  Likewise, if the sun isn't cooperating, you can cook longer at a lower temp and not miss dinner.
2. Lastly, not as much a LL, but cooking outside kept the oven from heating the house, in turn forcing the a/c to come on, saving us money.