Friday, August 14, 2015

Roasted corn-fed chicken with saffron and cashew rice pilaf and tomato cardamom sauce

From Spice by Christine Manfield page 164


This dish was a straight-forward, built upon a previous recipe - Saffron and Cashew Rice Pilaf.

The 'correct' way to do this dish is to tunnel-bone the chicken, then roast stuffed with the rice pilaf. I'm no tunnel-boner - so I made the 'slightly modified' version - by roasting the chickens basted in the prescribed annatto pepper oil.

The chickens didn't come out looking as red as I expected (a problem with my oil and / or basting I think), and they were a little over cooked (...a problem with my cooking I think).

Either way - a great combination of flavours.

Tunnel boning... one day...

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