Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, roast chicken with helzel stuffing. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Great recipe for Roast Chicken with Helzel Stuffing. I have a vivid memory of preparing the first Christmas dinner of our married life — forty-something years ago now. Helen had prepared Fanny Craddock's Christmas pudding, whereas I had been put in charge of stuffing the 'animal'.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have roast chicken with helzel stuffing using 18 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Roast Chicken with Helzel Stuffing:
- Prepare For the chicken:
- Take 1 large chicken, about 2.25 kg
- Get 1 onion, peeled and coarsely chopped
- Prepare 1 cup cold water
- Prepare For the helzel:
- Make ready 100 g medium matzo meal
- Get 100 g plain flour
- Prepare 75 g hard margarine, cut into small cubes
- Take 1 onion, grated, with most of the juice squeezed out
- Make ready 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
- Make ready For the gravy:
- Prepare 250 g thinly sliced chestnut or button mushrooms
- Prepare Chicken stock from the roasting tin or cubes as required
- Take 1 tablespoon plain flour
- Get 1 teaspoon cornflour mixed with 25 ml cold water (optional)
- Prepare Vegetable oil for frying
- Get Salt and white pepper
Remove the chicken and stuffing from the oven. Spoon the chickpea mixture inside the chicken cavity and place the whole lemon at the entrance. Place the garlic heads, cut side down, in a roasting tin. Put the chicken on top and drizzle with olive oil.
Instructions to make Roast Chicken with Helzel Stuffing:
- Preheat your oven to 180°C / 350°F / gas mark 4.
- In a bowl, loosely work together all of the helzel ingredients to form a coarse, crumble-like mixture.
- For ease, I stand the bird in the sink and spoon the helzel mix into the body cavity. The cavity should be loosely packed but well filled. You can secure the skin with wooden cocktail sticks or a skewer.
- If there is sufficient skin around the neck of the bird, you can also fill this cavity with helzel and sew it up with a needle and thread, otherwise cover with tinfoil. (In our house it is a treat to get the well-roasted, crispy skin with the cotton attached.) Any excess helzel can be cooked as below.
- Weigh the stuffed bird and use this cooking guide: - 1.0 – 1.3kg: 1½ – 1¾ hours - 1.3 – 1.8kg: 1¾ – 2 hours - 1.8 – 2.7kg: 2 – 2¼ hours
- Rub the outside of the bird with oil and salt.
- Sit it on a wire rack, breast side down, over a roasting tin containing the cup of water and chopped onion.
- Roast for one hour, then turn it over and finish the cooking breast side up.
- While it’s roasting, make the gravy: fry the mushrooms in oil until they start to brown then combine them with a tablespoon of plain flour.
- Add the juices from the roasting tin, top up with chicken stock if necessary, and stir well.
- Bring to a boil. Thicken with the cornflour and water if you wish. Check the seasoning.
- Allow it to simmer, covered, for 15 – 20 minutes.
- After roasting, the bird should be golden brown. If the skin has not yet crisped, give it another 10 – 15 minutes at 200°C / 390°F / gas mark 6.
- Serve the chicken with a spoonful of helzel, plenty of mushroom gravy, and vegetables. Helen’s roast potatoes and/or potato kugel are essential. Find recipes for both of these at www.justnotkosher.com
- If you are cooking chicken portions (with nothing to stuff) and you’d like helzel alongside, wrap the mixture in a loose tinfoil parcel, secure the edges, and place in an oven dish half-filled with hot water.
- Cook at 180°C / 350°F / gas mark 4 for about 1½ hours, topping up the water as necessary.
- Remove from the oven, carefully drain off the water, open the parcel and serve as above.
If the juice is not yet clear, roast a little longer and check again. Combine marinade ingredients in a bowl. Rub chicken inside and out with marinade. Stuffing: Soak the dried chestnuts overnight in water. This flavourful Traditional Old Style Roast Chicken Stuffing smells delicious and tastes great.
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