2020-08-13 / test@t

Christmas baked chicken with aromatic butter

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Christmas baked chicken with aromatic butter
Ingredients
  • 1 large chicken 1.5-1.8 kg
  • 3-4 oranges
  • 3-4 sprigs of rosemary
  • 120 g butter 82.5%
  • ½ sprig of rosemary
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 0.25 tsp pink peppercorns
  • salt, freshly ground black pepper

STEP-BY-STEP COOKING RECIPE

Step 1
To prepare fragrant butter in advance, leave the butter pack at room temperature to soften. Remove the rosemary leaves from the twigs and chop. Then chop the leaves together with the garlic again. Crush the pink peppercorns in a mortar. Combine all prepared ingredients with butter, season with salt and black pepper.
Step 2
Spread a 40x20 cm piece of cling film folded in half in front of you. Put butter in the form of a sausage along the long edge closest to you and wrap it in plastic. Twist the edges and roll the butter over the work surface to make the sausage even. Place in the freezer for at least 3 hours (and up to 3 months).
Step 3
Preheat oven to 200 ° C. From the chicken, remove excess visible fat around the tail and neck. Rub the outside and inside of the chicken with salt and pepper.
Step 4
Gently peel the chicken skin on the breast and legs from the flesh. To do this, lift the edge of the skin and begin to peel it off with gentle strokes, sticking your fingers between the skin and the meat - be careful not to tear the skin.
Step 5
Remove the frozen fragrant butter from the foil and cut into thin (2mm) circles with a sharp knife. Slide the mugs of butter under the chicken skin, covering almost all of the breast and part of the legs.
Step 6
Tie the chicken legs, tuck the wings under the arms. Cut the oranges into quarters and place in a baking dish, pulp side up. Lay rosemary on them, on rosemary - chicken breast up. Place the dish in the bottom of the oven.
Step 7
In 20 minutes. reduce the oven temperature to 140 ° C, turn the chicken breast-side up and bake until cooked (70 ° C meat thermometer in the thickest part of the leg, without touching the bone), about 1 hour.
Step 8
Put the finished chicken on a dish, place the baked oranges around. Cover loosely with a sheet of foil, leave for 10 minutes. Then serve on the festive table and cut.
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