Roast Chicken With Mushroom-Onion Stuffing
"From the Fanny Farmer Cookbook; this is a simple delicious recipe. As I have recently learned, homemade stuffing is really easy to make. For a nice presentation be sure to truss the chicken."
photo by Butterfly444
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1360.77-2267.96 g roasting chickens
- 59.14 ml butter, melted
- 14.79 ml salt (or to taste)
- 2.46 ml black pepper
- 4.92 ml dried thyme
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Stuffing
- 118.29 ml butter
- 59.14 ml onion, finely chopped
- 473.18 ml mushrooms, chopped
- 946.36 ml dry breadcrumbs
- 2.46 ml nutmeg
- 2.46 ml salt
- 1.23 ml black pepper
directions
- To make the stuffing: melt the butter in a skillet over low heat. Add the onion and mushrooms, cooking until the onion is soft. Remove from heat; stir in the crumbs and season to taste.
- Rinse the chicken and pat dry. Stuff the body cavity, and truss the bird.
- Brush the melted butter all over and sprinkle with seasonings.
- Place the chicken breast up in a roasting pan and cook at 325 degrees for 25 minutes per pound. The meat thermometer should read 170 degrees in the breast meat.
- If desired you can melt more butter and baste every 15 minutes. (I don't baste my chicken; I just leave it alone.).
- Remove the chicken to a warm platter and cover with foil, letting it rest 10 minutes before carving.
Questions & Replies
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The chicken is only 1.6kg just the two of us, how long would you cook it for at 325? ?? -
Why would you need to cook it at 325 that seems rather low? Why at 350? Making this recipe today ??
Reviews
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This was wonderful stuffing! I used portabello mushrooms and the stuffing had a flavour that was meaty in some ways but light in others that went so well with the chicken. I cooked the chicken on a rotisserie on a BBQ so used a slightly different cooking method but am sure it would be just as good cooked in the oven.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
I'm a stay at home mom with 3 adorable children-an 8 year old daredevil son, a 5 1/2 year old princess and a wild little 2 year old girl! I love to cook, and like having my little helpers in the kitchen!
I usually love recipes that are completely from scratch (I still love them actually) but right now my focus is on having any kind of food ready by mealtime! It's a little crazy here lately. Every summer we have a huge organic garden, apple orchard and raspberry and blueberry patches, along with a woods full of wild foods waiting for me to learn what they are so I can collect them. I'm learning about wild mushrooms first, so if anyone has any tips, let me know. We also eat wild venison which my husband and I hunt ourselves. It's our favorite meat, since it's lean, organic and cheap! Some of my hobbies are: hiking, biking, rock climbing, gardening, playing in the water with my kids, or just swinging in the hammock with a good book. I go stir crazy if I spend too much time inside.
