This recipe is for Hot Smoked Salmon Salad with Creamy Dill Dressing from the food section of The Boston Globe.

Salt-baked chicken is a traditional Hakka dish, made by covering a chicken in seasoned salt and baking it until cooked through and tender. But I’d never seen it done in a rice cooker before.

She explains, "When you salt a chicken generously and put it in the oven at 450° for 20 minutes on one side and then 20 minutes on the other, and you take it out, it’s perfect.

When an internal temperature reaches 165 degrees, pull the chicken out and drizzle the honey mixture over the chicken. Turn the oven up to broil and put the chicken back in for one minute to crisp up.

(Kolbie Peterson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A chicken sandwich from Houston TX Hot Chicken, at 912 E. 900 South in Salt Lake City, is pictured on Saturday, July 20, 2024.

I love chicken. Everyone does. Not much needs to happen to it. You can just sprinkle with salt and roast. Delicious. Boring. Determined to get a little more creative than that, I thought long and ...