But first a little lecture. Please do yourself a favor and buy a good chicken. Nowadays it's unfortunately all about buying everything cheap. But when it comes to things you eat you should care more. It goes straight into your body and affects your health. So be wise, buy good food, support your local farmers. You want to look fabulous from the outside by buying good clothes. Why not doing it from the inside too.
What you need:
- whole chicken, 1,5 kg (cleaned by your butcher)
- 100 ml white wine (don't use cheap wine, choose one you would drink)
- 100 ml warm water
- 5 shalotts
- 1 clove of garlic
- rosemary
- thyme
- cest of 1/2 lemon
- sea salt
- olive oil
- 4 tablespoons of honey
How to do:
So first of all chop the herbs (thyme and rosemary) roughly. You don't need to chop it pretty because it goes straight to te mortar.
Then take the mortar. Put in your herbs, the lemon cest, garlic clove (I take one, but if you like it more strong don't be scared to take two) and sea salt. Be generous with the salt by taking about 1 1/2 tablespoons. Now you need to pestle it all to a nice paste. Add some olive oil, I guess about 100 ml. Take a spoon and mix the oil under the paste. And that is how it should look like.
So now take the chicken and wash it with cold water. Put your birdie in a casserole. It's always the same problem with making whole chicken. The breasts are already dry while the legs still a little bit bloody near the bone. Well thanks to my mum now my whole chicken always as juicy as it should be. What I do is just take a shashlik spit and make little wholes into the legs and every other part but the breasts. Believe me although some of the juice will come out through these wholes the chicken will be fine.
Now be gentle and give your chicken a nice rubb with the herbspaste. Don't just cover, you have to massage it. Don't forget to wash your hands after dealing with raw chicken if not using gloves. You don't want to get infected by salmonella. Let the chicken rest for about 15 min. so all the wonderful flavors can work their way into the skin.
Then pour in the liquids, wine and water go into the casserole. You could take chicken stock also but it makes no sense for me. Instead of wine you could also take vermouth, very yammi.Cut some shallots very roughly and put them in. They will give you this incredible sweet and spicy flavor.
Preheat your oven to 200 °C and then turn it a bit lower to 190 °C. And there the casserole goes in, for about 1,5 hours. The cooking time could always vary, depending on your oven.
You don't have to do it, but I love to put some running honey over the chicken for the last 5 min of the cooking time and heat it up to 250 °C. Then the skin becomes a bit crunchy and sweet.
Actually you can eat your chicken just with a nice italian bread but I prefere to make some veggies or so. Last time I prepared some topinambur mash. It is very simple to make. Pretend it is potato and proceed the same way you would deal with the potatos. I think topinambur goes so very good with chicken. And I made some red peppers by caramelizing them, then pour in some good old red vine vinegar and letting reduce until it is almost all gone. A bit of a seasoning with salt and pepper helps the flavors come out. And that's it.
Enjoy......
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