Roast chicken with garlic sauce
As wonderful as holidays there is always a satisfaction in coming home. No matter how much lovely food I eat when I am away and no matter how tired I am when coming back I have to cook and get that sense of normality.
Today I came home with a craving for roast chicken. I had heard that the weather has not been great but it was a slight chill in the air and I think it triggered the craving for roast chicken. A quick visit to the allotment to see what had happened made me bring back for stuffing and some fresh garlic.
Rhubarb and herb stuffed chicken with garlic sauce
1 whole chicken
4 dl chicken stock
1/2 dl soy sauce
1 whole fresh garlic bulb
For the stuffing
2 rhubarb stalks
4 sage leaves
a few leaves of fresh oregano
1/2 teaspoon salt
pepper
I mixed the stock and and soy sauce and placed the roughly chopped up garlic cloves in the mix. I then placed the stuffed chicken on the roasting tray, brushed it with oil and roasted it in the oven for 30 minutes at 200C and 1 hr in 175C.
When the chicken was cooking I steamed broccoli and cauliflower and placed on a tray sprinkled with olive oil and placed under the grill until slightly crispy and I boiled potatoes. When the chicken was done I took the remains of the stock and soy sauce with the now mellowed garlic and blended it until smooth. I took the chicken and drained it and added the juices to the sauce. The garlic thickened the sauce slightly and I mashed the potato in it and it was delicious! Home sweet home, even if sad that the holiday has come to an end it is good to be home.
why is it about roast chicken that I have to make a comment, maybe because for me it’s the best meal ever (with curried goat catching up fast), this sounds and look lovely. Even the stuffing sounds great. Hope you had a good holiday, it looked like it, but you could have brought some decent weather back with you haha lol
There is something about chicken that is very comforting! Maybe the way the whole house smells lovely as it is cooking, or picking your favourite piece… I wish I had brought some nice weather, saying that left just before the tropical storms hit! No such problems here!