Crisping

The lunch and dinner menus lead with those birds turning slowly on the rotisserie, the skin crisping and browning with each revolution.

You’re preparing a fond for the sauce as much as you’re crisping the skin and protecting the breast meat.

As daylight dimmed into night’s damp chill, he lit a fire and roasted strips of dried salmon, crisping them up and unlocking their fats.

At Calafia, Williams cures the beef in pickling spices, curing salt and a little cinnamon before cubing and crisping the meat and bundling it into two homemade corn tortillas along with a hefty dollop of oniony guacamole.

Even the crisping of some of the chickpeas for garnish—which is the only sort of novel part of the original recipe—is better accomplished, for my money, by roasting a batch separately, which supplies both your decoration and a snack for later.