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#WFD – Mushroom and Onion Stuffed Roast Chicken

Serve this dish with roasted vegetables and gravy.

POLOKWANE – A roast is a typical dish for a Sunday but have you ever thought of spicing up your roast by stuffing it?

What’s for Dinner says stuffing your chicken with a delicious mushroom, onion and cream cheese mixture will take it to a new level.

Ingredients

  1. 30ml olive oil
  2. ½ onion, finely diced
  3. 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  4. 1 punnet button mushrooms, sliced
  5. 30ml lemon juice
  6. 30ml fresh parsley, chopped
  7. 15ml cream cheese
  8. 1.3kg chicken, whole
  9. 1 x KNORR Cook-In-Bag BBQ Flavour
  10. 12 baby potatoes

Method

  1. Heat the olive oil in a pan and sauté the onion and garlic on a low heat until soft.
  2. Add the mushrooms and cook until soft then remove from the heat and stir in the lemon juice, chopped parsley and cream cheese.
  3. Next, run your fingers between the skin and flesh of the chicken, starting with the breasts and ending up with the legs. Be gentle as you separate the skin from the flesh – you need to avoid ripping the skin.
  4. Spread the stuffing generously all over the flesh of the bird, securing it with the skin so that none runs out. It does help to tie the legs together.
  5. No need to preheat the oven. Place chicken into the KNORR Cook-in-Bag BBQ Flavour with the baby potatoes.
  6. Season with dry KNORR mixture. Close bag at end with blue tie supplied..
  7. Very gently massage KNORR mixture into chicken on a stable surface. Ensure dry mixture is spread evenly. Place bag sideways in a cool oven dish, ensuring ingredients are evenly spaced.
  8. Bake at 180°C for 60 minutes on the lowest shelf in the oven. Ensure grill is off at ALL times.
  9. Keep enough room for bag to expand (bag must not touch the sides of the oven).
  10. Carefully cut bag open, coat chicken in any remaining juices and transfer to a serving dish.
  11. For a crispier skin, open the bag 15 minutes before the end of cooking.
  12. Serve with roasted vegetables and gravy.

raeesak@nmgroup.co.za

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Raeesa Sempe

Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard

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