Chicken in foil

The traditional name for this style of cooking is en papillote and the traditional package is made of parchment paper. But aluminum foil is much easier and more available and efficient, so it is the envelope of choice. Here, you are cooking in a very tightly closed container, effectively creating a small, weak pressure cooker. The cooking times are short and the process is simple. One bonus of using this method—in which all of the cooking is done on the stovetop—is that the foil puffs up, making it look like a Jiffy Pop.