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Pot Roasted Mediterranean Chicken
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A nice Mediterranean-style chicken recipe.
Ingredients
- 1.6kg chicken
- 2 sprigs fresh marjoram, leaves only
- A good handful of thyme, leaves only
- 4 Cloves of garlic
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 Belazu preserved lemon, sliced thinly - (flesh discarded)
- 175g Belazu black olives with Herbs, stoned
- 250g button mushrooms
- 1 green sweet pepper, de-seeded and sliced
- 40g sun-dried or sun-blush tomatoes, soaked in hot water and drained
- 1 medium onion, sliced
- 1 fresh bay leaf
- 175ml dry white wine
- Sea salt & freshly ground black pepper
Mise en place
- Pre-heat the oven to 220° C (425° F - gas 7)
Method
- Remove the parson's nose from the chicken.
- Season the chicken inside and out. Mash the herbs and garlic with 3 tablespoons of oil to form a paste.
- Slide your fingers between the skin and flesh of the chicken and rub the paste as evenly as possible over the breasts. Chop half of the lemon slices and mix with half the olives and half the mushrooms. Stuff the cavity with this mixture. in the cavity.
- Put the bird in a heavy casserole (such as Le Creuset). Scatter round the sun-dried tomatoes, green pepper slices, onion, remaining lemon, olives and mushrooms and pour over the wine and the remaining olive oil.
- Roast for about 1 ¾ hours. Covered for the first 45 minutes, remove the cover then baste every 20 minutes until the chicken is properly cooked,
- To serve, spoon the vegetables from the cavity and set the chicken on a board.
- Skim fat off the juices in the casserole, bring to the boil and serve hot with the carved chicken. Delicious with barley couscous.
(Orlando Murrin in The Daily Express)
Serving suggestion
Delicious with barley couscous. This recipe originated from the recipe section of Belazu.com
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