Chicken Pot

Ingredients

• An organic chicken of your choice
• 16 small shallots or pickling onions, peeled
• 12 cloves of garlic left whole skin on
• 150 ml fresh chicken or vegetable stock
• 50 g butter, cubed, straight from the fridge
• 2 tblsp crème fraîche to finish sauce

For the spiced butter

• 15 g green saffron korma spices
• 1/4 tsp natural sea salt
• small handful, finely chopped, fresh curly parsley.
• 1/2 tsp very finely grated or ‘microplane’ lemon zest.

 

Method

Preparation

1. Mix all Spiced Butter ingredients together in bowl. Take the bird and place into a casserole pot.
2. Carefully lift the skin of the bird away from neck-end and gently push the butter in, lifting with your fingers between the bird & flesh.
3. Then, rub the Korma butter over each of the legs and under both breasts
4. Take a piece of butchers string and tie the bird so the legs are kept into the body.

Finishing and the sauce

1. Remove the bird from the casserole and skim the juices to remove excess fat, then add 2 tspn of the Green Saffron Korma spice blend and allow to bubble gently until it’s reduced by half.
2. Now, add the crème fraîche and continue to reduce down so the sauce just coats the back of a spoon, then add the cubed, cold butter and stir through.

Roasting

1. Turn your oven to 180°C, gas mark 4.
2. Place the onions, garlic, stock and prepared chicken into the casserole and seal the lid with a strip of tin foil. Roast for 50- 65minutes