Roast Chicken Recipe

By Ms I-Hua On August 8, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Contemporary Recipes, Home Cooked, Recipes

Bzzz… my phone vibrated in my bag…(get your mind out of the gutter)

It’s the Boy. Message read, “Get a whole chicken.”

Perplexed on the way home. People on the train were ignoring each other as usual.

“What chicken? Raw? Roasted?”

“Raw”

And this is what entailed. He felt like roasting a bird. It’s the first time we’ve roasted anything, so it was fun whilst it lasted.

We used the leftover cous cous from the day before…

Fried some bacon rashers (roughly chopped), boiled 2 patatoes, and melted some butter (50g)

I cut the rinds out of the remaining rashers (4 pieces) again, that depends on your chicken and how big it is…

(The rinds, we marinated with salt and popped it into the toaster.)

Get 1 whole chicken!

Stuff it with lemon thyme, fried bacon bits (from before), toasted bacon rinds (from before), chorizo, whole garlic cloves (smashed with skin on)

If you have some string, you can tie the legs up together. We didn’t, so we ended up using some wooden skewers instead… worked fine =)

Prepare a platform for the chicken.

Pat the chicken dry (that’s the key!)

Baste it with the melted butter

Drape the bacon rashers around the chicken

Place the patatoes on the surface and pat dry as well. Baste with butter.

Pop it into a pre-heated oven. We cooked if for 1 hour (about 180 degrees), with the 30 minute interval to baste it with butter again.

Take it out, and allow it to rest.
(I’m not sure if you can see it, but the circular patters on the bottom of the chicken, are actually chorizo slices that the Boy pushed in between the chicken and the skin)

Leftover cous cous…

Once the chicken has rested, cut it up into 4 pieces

My beautiful dish!!

The Boy’s!

Works out fine, as he likes the top half of the chicken, and I love the bottom half…

Delicious, and we’ve got 2 more pieces for tomorrow’s dinner!! The Boy has out done himself this time…!!!!!!

Tagged with: bacon wrapped roast chicken • Chorizo • cous cous

5 Responses to Roast Chicken Recipe

Yew Yingda Nicholas says:

August 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM

You mean THIS hand bag?

http://failblog.org/2009/08/06/purse-design-fail/

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msihua says:

August 11, 2009 at 9:27 PM

Nick: WTF?? I know u have acute withdrawal symptoms.. but what does the bag have to do with my blog??? Oh IBF.. what is wrong?

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NyonyaChef says:

August 12, 2009 at 2:40 PM

Again another 5 star fine dining masterpiece ! You guys are getting better n better each time. Cous cous ! Chic n bacon ! Lemon Thyme ! It's like French cooking. I have to salute u guys.

By the way, what's chorizo ?

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msihua says:

August 12, 2009 at 11:41 PM

Nyonya Chef: Thank you!! The Boy inspires competition in the house =)

Chorizo is a type of Spanish Sausage =)

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Yew Yingda Nicholas says:

August 14, 2009 at 8:48 PM

Was refering to your phone vibrating on your bag. Now with that handbag picture in mind, repeat this line again,

"Bzzz… my phone vibrated in my bag…

It's the Boy. Message read, "Get a whole chicken."

Perplexed on the way home. People on the train were ignoring each other as usual.

"What chicken? Raw? Roasted?"

"Raw"

And this is what entailed. He felt like roasting a bird. It's the first time we've roasted anything, so it was fun whilst it lasted.

We used the leftover cous cous from the day before…"

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