Scottish Roast Chicken
- Ready In:
- 1hr 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 3 -4 lbs fryer chickens, in pieces
- 6 medium onions, cut in half
- 1⁄4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine, melted
- 1 large onion, minced
- 1⁄4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine
- 1 cup oats
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
directions
- Prepare Oat Stuffing: Melt butter in med.
- skillet; cook 1 lg minced onion on medium heat, stirring frequently, until light brown.
- Stir oats and spices; cook until oats are golden brown, stirring frequently, approx 3-4 min.
- For Chicken: Fill wishbone area of chicken with stuffing.
- Fasten neck skin to back with skewer.
- Fold wings across back; let tips touch.
- Fill main cavity lightly with stuffing.
- (This will expand while cooking, so don't stuff too much in!) Skewer/tie drumsticks to tail.
- Place chicken, breast up, in shallow roasting pan.
- Arrange halved onions around chicken.
- Brush chicken and onions with 1/4 c.
- melted butter.
- Leave uncovered; roast at 375.
- Baste several times with remaining butter during cook time, approx 1-1/2 hrs.
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Reviews
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This was definitely something different for a change, and not bad, but I had some trouble with it. First, I'm glad I didn't cut the chicken into pieces as it says in the ingredient list, because it's difficult to stuff a cut-up chicken (although I'm sure that's just a typo). Second, I was worried because all I had was quick-cooking oats, but they were still very dry in spots even though I added another 1/4 cup butter to the skillet and the chicken was in the oven almost two hours. Luckily, I had also used extra melted butter to baste, so I poured that over the stuffing after removing from the bid and it worked out OK. But I'm glad I didn't use regular oats! I also had to cover the roasting pan after 45 minutes, because at that temperature the skin was burned almost beyond saving, even though I basted every 15 minutes. In all, with tweaking, this could become a favourite, but as it's written there were many difficulties.