Chicken in the oven is a safe option for a festive meal for the New Year 2019. If cooked correctly, the meat will turn out tender and juicy, and the taste can be easily varied with the help of additional ingredients.
Chicken baked in the oven with prunes, apples and sherry for the New Year's table 2019
- chicken weighing 2.5 kg;
- 3 apples;
- dried apricots - 8 pieces;
- 2 tablespoons of chopped walnuts;
- prunes - 12 pieces;
- kumquat - 12 pieces (optional for a side dish);
- 1 teaspoon each of ground cinnamon, ground ginger and ground cloves;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- 50 ml of sherry;
- 2 sticks of cinnamon;
- salt, pepper, bay leaf;
- olive oil.
Salt and pepper the chicken inside and outside, peel the apples, cut into large pieces. Stuff the chicken with apples, prunes, apricots and chopped walnuts. Sew up the chicken with culinary thread (or fasten the skin with toothpicks), tie the legs.
In a mortar, crush the garlic with ground ingredients - cinnamon, ginger and cloves. Add sherry, 4 tablespoons water and 2 tablespoons oil, stir. Place the chicken in a baking dish, brush with 1 tablespoon of oil and then 1/3 of the sherry sauce. Cover with cling film, refrigerate for 2-3 hours, so that the meat is marinated.
Preheat the oven to 180C, remove the cling film from the chicken, add kumquat and cinnamon sticks to the baking dish.
Bake for 2, 5 hours, periodically pouring with the remaining spicy sauce with sherry and the juice that stands out so that the chicken does not dry out and the crust is golden and crispy.
