Just went to check on dinner - roast chicken. Think I may have invented a new recipe. Alcoholic chicken. Tastes gorgeous - the alcohol all boils off leaving a really good gravy:
Ingredients
1 Chicken
1 shot gin
1 shot vodka
1 shot vermouth
1 glass white wine
1 onion
2 sticks celery
2 carrots
Random herbs (rosemary, chives, sage, whatever)
3 cloves garlic
Olive oil
Method
Peel carrots and chop finely. Do the same with onions and celery. Stuff the chicken with half the veg and scatter the rest in the roasting pan for it to sit on. Peel back the skin on the breast (carefully - you want it to stay in one piece) and stuff with the herbs. Put some deep cuts into the bird in the breast and legs and shove in slivers of garlic. Pour the glass of wine into the bird, pour the spirits over it then finish with some olive oil on top. Shove some salt and pepper on the breast. Put in the oven for as long as it takes to cook
If there's any gravy left, chuck it in when you make the stock out of the bones cos it makes an amazing risotto.
Posted by emilyd at August 16, 2002 09:20 PM