Roast chicken with homemade rice stuffing gives you an easy way to have a whole meal in one with little effort. This recipe is great for all seasons and fit for any celebration.
Ingredients:
For Stuffing
2 cup cooked rice
¼ cup toasted chopped mixed nuts or chopped blanched almonds
1 ½ tablespoon sultanas or currants
5-6 chopped dried apricots or prunes chopped
1 teaspoon ground all spice
½ teaspoon grated nutmeg
Roast Chicken
1 large roasting chicken
Salt and black pepper
3 crushed garlic
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 tablespoon honey
1 ½ fresh orange juice squeezed (4 tablespoon orange juice mixed with honey + the rest to baste chicken)
Preheat the oven 400F/200C/Gas 6
Method:
In a bowl mix cooked rice together with chopped nuts, sultanas, apricots, ground spice and nutmeg and put it aside of later.
Use kitchen paper to wipe dry the chicken inside and out, it needs to be completely dry before seasoning and adding stuffing.
Season the chicken with salt and pepper, butter and crushed garlic, rub butter inside the chicken, and rub garlic mixture inside and the outside as well. Put in the rice stuffing mixture inside the main cavity of the chicken and the neck cavity.
Place the chicken in a roasting tin. Dissolve honey in freshly squeezed orange juice put it aside to brush it all over the chicken in the last 10 minutes of cooking, pour the remaining juice over the chicken and into the roasting tin. Put small bits of butter all over the top of the chicken.
Use a string to tie the chicken together to stop the stuffing from falling out.
Roast for 2 hours in the oven at 400F/200C/Gas 6. When the top is browned, turn over so both sides are cooked, basting occasionally with the juices in the tin. In the last 10 minutes of cooking baste the chicken with the honey and orange juice mixture.
When chicken is cooked, cover with foil and leave to rest for 10- 15 minutes before serving.
Cooks Tips:
The chicken needs to be completely dry inside and out before seasoning this helps the skin to be crispy.
Tie with string to close up chicken cavity so the stuffing does not fall out.
If the chicken is browning too quickly before it’s cooked cover the top with foil or another pan of similar size to stop it burning.
To check if the chicken is cooked, insert a skewer or sharp knife into the chicken, if the juices that comes out is very little and clear, than it’s cooked. If not, leave the chicken in the oven for a bit longer covered with foil.
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