Stuffed Chicken For 6

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 1/2-1 7/8 kg chicken
• 500 -700 g minced turkey or 500 -700 g minced beef
• 1 kg potato
• 3 onions
• 2 pieces bread
• 300 g mushrooms
• thyme, laurel
• salt & pepper
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• meatball spices

Recipe

• 1 cut open the chest of a chicken of (1. 5 –1. 8 kg) and debone the ribs.
• 2 careful not to torn the skin.
• 3 an easier way is to ask your butcher to do it!
• 4 filling; 500 gr minced turkey or minced beef.
• 5 cut 1 onion, then fry it slightly brown, let it cool.
• 6 soak 2 pieces of bread in water.
• 7 mince 300 gr of mushrooms into very small bits.
• 8 mix 3+4+5+6 together, add spices, salt&pepper to liking (i use meatball spices) slice 2 big onions in thin rings.
• 9 stuff the chicken with the filling mix, then with the big needle and wire, saw the chicken together again.
• 10 wash approx 1 kg potatoes, keep the skin, and slice them very thinly, like the onions.
• 11 in a glass dish put 3 spoons of olive oil, then place the sliced onions, the potatoes add thyme and laurel, blend all together make some room for the chicken in the middle.
• 12 bake in the oven for 2 hours on 150-160 degrees c.
• 13 check the dish from time to time, moving the potatoes.
• 14 the onions will caramelize and the potatoes will soak the chicken’s fats.
• 15 if it bakes too hard, cover with aluminium foil, and lower the temperature.
• 16 before serving take the wires away.
• 17 leftovers (if any) are very tasty cold too!