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Classic Roast Chicken

Chicken stuffed with rice and aromatics like onions, leeks, garlic and celery roasted till the skin is crispy, the chicken inside is tender and the veggies on the side are beautifully roasted. The butter basting sauce just completes it perfectly. This recipe is from FoodFood TV channel

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Classic Roast Chicken
Main Ingredients Chicken, Basmati rice
Cuisine British
Course Main Course Chicken
Prep Time 11-15 minutes
Cook time 1-1.30 hour
Serve 4
Taste Mild
Level of Cooking Difficult
Others Non Veg

Ingredients list for Classic Roast Chicken

  • 800 grams Chicken
  • 2 cups Basmati rice cooked
  • 3 medium Onions
  • 1 tablespoon Leek finely chopped
  • 4 medium Carrots
  • 2 tablespoons Celery finely chopped
  • 1/4 Egg boiled and chopped
  • to taste Sea salt
  • to taste Black pepper powder
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons Parsley finely chopped
  • 1 Egg
  • for basting Butter
  • 2 medium Onions finely chopped
  • 2 medium Carrots finely Chopped
  • Oil for basting

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 200°C.
  2. Combine rice, chopped onion, leeks, chopped carrots, celery, chopped eggs, salt and pepper powder in a bowl. Mix well. Add parsley and mix well.
  3. Cut 4 carrots into thick slices and quarter 3 onions. Place these in a baking dish. Clean chicken and cut neck keeping the skin intact. Rub salt all over the outside and the inside of the chicken.
  4. Fold the front wings and skin at the neck towards the back.
  5. Break egg into the rice mixture and mix well. Stuff chicken with this mixture, pressing nicely. Tie the two drumsticks together to seal and place the stuffed chicken on the bed of vegetables in the baking dish.
  6. Drizzle oil all over chicken and sprinkle a little salt and pepper powder. Place the tray in preheated oven and cook for 10-15 minutes.Reduce temperature to 170°C and cook for 1¼ hours.
  7. Brush butter on chicken and serve with brown sauce.

Nutrition Info

Calories 4292
Carbohydrates 425.9
Protein 258.6
Fat 127.7
Other Fiber Vitamin B6: 3.3
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