Stuffed Roast Chicken

Ingredients for Stuffed Roast Chicken:

1. Chicken – 1 full (1.5 kg)
2. Chilli powder – 1 small spoon
   Turmeric powder – 1 small spoon
   Soya sauce – 1 small spoon
   Masala powder – 1 small spoon
   Ginger-garlic paste – 1 small spoon
   Green chillies crushed – 1 big spoon
   Red food colour – A pinch
   Lemon juice – Extracted from 1 lemon
   Salt and pepper powder – As per taste
3. Butter – 4 big spoons
4. Ginger paste – 1 big spoon
   Garlic paste – 1 big spoon
   Green chilli paste – 1 big spoon
5. Potato – 2 medium-sized, boiled and smashed
   Bread cut into square pieces – ¾ cup
6. Salt and pepper powder – As per taste
   Barbeque sauce – 1 big spoon
7. Vanaspati – 1 cup
8. Ginger, garlic and green chillies chopped – 1 big spoon together
9. Onion – 2 big, chopped and deep fried in oil
10. Tomato sauce – ½ cup
11. Stock – As required

How to prepare Stuffed Roast Chicken?

1. Clean the chicken as whole.
2. Remove its lungs and heart and cook it separately. Then chop into fine pieces.
3. Mix together ingredients no: 2 to prepare the masala.
4. Marinate the chicken using this masala and refrigerate for at least 8-9 hours.
5. Heat two big spoons of butter and sauté ingredients no: 4.
6. Add cooked chicken liver pieces to it and mix well.
7.  Add smashed potatoes and bread pieces, followed by ingredients no: 6, and take off from the flame.
8.  Stuff the chicken using this gravy and tie it using a thread.
9. Heat Vanaspati in a pan and fry chicken. All the sides should turn light brown.
10. Pre-heat oven to 160 degree celsious.
11. Grease a baking tray and place the chicken.
12. Bake it for 30 minutes. (You can also bake chicken for 15 minutes at 180 degree celsious)
13. Once done, transfer the chicken to the serving plate.
14. Heat 2 big spoons of butter and sauté ingredients no: 8, fried onions and the gravy that was left after marinating the chicken.
15. Add chicken stock and tomato sauce, and boil the contents.
16. When the gravy turns thick, take it off the flame and allow it to cool.
17. Blend it once in a mixer and serve it along with Stuffed Roast Chicken.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine December 15-31, 2018

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