Chicken Roasting Dish 30cm.

If you’re yet to taste chicken roasted in a traditional Spanish wood burning oven, you simply haven’t lived. The succulent slightly smoky tasting chicken and wonderfully crisp charred skin are divine. This 30cm diameter chicken roasting dish holds a chicken in the perfect position in a Fuego outdoor pizza oven and the earthenware column also heats to ensure the chicken is evenly cooked on the inside.

Hand-made in Castile, Spain, by local artisan craftsmen and women, the fire clay used to create this ‘cazuela’ chicken roasting dish has incredibly high refractory qualities. A combination of red and white clays peculiar to the area and used to create pottery since Roman times, is what makes it perfect for roasting. Can also be used in a microwave, stovetop or traditional oven.

Our terracotta cooking dishes are hand-made by experienced potters made with two types of clay; slow drying red clay which gives the pot its strength and white clay, containing quartz, feldspar and mica which give the pots their incredible refractory properties. The pots are dried, glazed and fired for 10 hours. The glaze on the cazuela dish is perfectly safe for all applications, it contains no lead.

On first use, terracotta cooking dishes need to be soaked for 30 minutes in cold water to prevent the pot from cracking when used. When cooking with terracotta, the key is to increase and decrease heat gradually to avoid cracking and shattering the dishes.