Roast Chicken with Helzel Stuffing
Roast Chicken with Helzel Stuffing

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook roast chicken with helzel stuffing using 18 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Roast Chicken with Helzel Stuffing:
  1. Take For the chicken:
  2. Prepare 1 large chicken, about 2.25 kg
  3. Prepare 1 onion, peeled and coarsely chopped
  4. Take 1 cup cold water
  5. Prepare For the helzel:
  6. Take 100 g medium matzo meal
  7. Make ready 100 g plain flour
  8. Take 75 g hard margarine, cut into small cubes
  9. Get 1 onion, grated, with most of the juice squeezed out
  10. Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  11. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
  12. Take For the gravy:
  13. Make ready 250 g thinly sliced chestnut or button mushrooms
  14. Take Chicken stock from the roasting tin or cubes as required
  15. Take 1 tablespoon plain flour
  16. Prepare 1 teaspoon cornflour mixed with 25 ml cold water (optional)
  17. Get Vegetable oil for frying
  18. Get Salt and white pepper

While it's roasting, make the gravy: fry the mushrooms in oil until they start to brown then combine them with a tablespoon of plain flour. Add the juices from the roasting tin, top up with chicken stock if necessary, and stir well. Fill the cavity of chicken with your chosen stuffing, making sure you leave a little space between the stuffing and the top of the bird, just to let the air circulate. If you have any stuffing left over, put it in the neck end. (If there is any extra stuffing, bake separately in a baking dish covered with foil.) Place chicken, breast side up, in a roasting pan.

Instructions to make Roast Chicken with Helzel Stuffing:
  1. Preheat your oven to 180°C / 350°F / gas mark 4.
  2. In a bowl, loosely work together all of the helzel ingredients to form a coarse, crumble-like mixture.
  3. For ease, I stand the bird in the sink and spoon the helzel mix into the body cavity. The cavity should be loosely packed but well filled. You can secure the skin with wooden cocktail sticks or a skewer.
  4. If there is sufficient skin around the neck of the bird, you can also fill this cavity with helzel and sew it up with a needle and thread, otherwise cover with tinfoil. (In our house it is a treat to get the well-roasted, crispy skin with the cotton attached.) Any excess helzel can be cooked as below.
  5. Weigh the stuffed bird and use this cooking guide: - 1.0 – 1.3kg: 1½ – 1¾ hours - 1.3 – 1.8kg: 1¾ – 2 hours - 1.8 – 2.7kg: 2 – 2¼ hours
  6. Rub the outside of the bird with oil and salt.
  7. Sit it on a wire rack, breast side down, over a roasting tin containing the cup of water and chopped onion.
  8. Roast for one hour, then turn it over and finish the cooking breast side up.
  9. While it’s roasting, make the gravy: fry the mushrooms in oil until they start to brown then combine them with a tablespoon of plain flour.
  10. Add the juices from the roasting tin, top up with chicken stock if necessary, and stir well.
  11. Bring to a boil. Thicken with the cornflour and water if you wish. Check the seasoning.
  12. Allow it to simmer, covered, for 15 – 20 minutes.
  13. After roasting, the bird should be golden brown. If the skin has not yet crisped, give it another 10 – 15 minutes at 200°C / 390°F / gas mark 6.
  14. Serve the chicken with a spoonful of helzel, plenty of mushroom gravy, and vegetables. Helen’s roast potatoes and/or potato kugel are essential. Find recipes for both of these at www.justnotkosher.com
  15. If you are cooking chicken portions (with nothing to stuff) and you’d like helzel alongside, wrap the mixture in a loose tinfoil parcel, secure the edges, and place in an oven dish half-filled with hot water.
  16. Cook at 180°C / 350°F / gas mark 4 for about 1½ hours, topping up the water as necessary.
  17. Remove from the oven, carefully drain off the water, open the parcel and serve as above.

Fill the cavity of chicken with your chosen stuffing, making sure you leave a little space between the stuffing and the top of the bird, just to let the air circulate. If you have any stuffing left over, put it in the neck end. (If there is any extra stuffing, bake separately in a baking dish covered with foil.) Place chicken, breast side up, in a roasting pan. Cook the onions in a pan of boiling water for four minutes, then add the sage leaves and continue to boil for a further minute. Fill the cavity of the chicken with the stuffing, making sure you leave a little air between the stuffing and the top of the bird to allow the air to circulate. If you have any stuffing left over,.

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