Flat-chat chicken recipe: ‘Crispy brown bits in your frying pan? Don’t throw them out!’

Get down with the brown to up the flavour (but not the cooking time): Alice Zaslavsky’s flat-chat chicken, feta and silverbeet. Photograph: Rochelle Eagle/The Guardian

Are you fond of cooking techniques that can economise ingredients, time and washing up?

Fond, otherwise known as the fonds de cuisine (loosely, the foundation of the kitchen) are the extremely delicious, crispy brown bits left in the bottom of the pan after frying. Too often they end up down the sink. But don’t throw them out! Even better, make fond an intentional part of your cooking.