Seasoned Mochi Sticky Rice Stuffed Roast Chicken for Christmas

• 1 4/5 kg Whole chicken
• 1 Salt and olive oil
• 200 ml Consomme soup stock
• 1 i recommend fragrant vegetables such as red bell pepper Vegetables to roast the chicken with (red bell pepper, onion, celery, cabbage, carrot)
• 350 grams Mochi Sticky Rice
• 4 cm Carrot
• 3 Dried shitake mushrooms
• 1 tbsp Dried shrimp
• 100 ml The juice from the rehydrated shiitake mushrooms
• 1 tbsp each Soy sauce, Mirin, Sake
• 1 tsp Dashi stock granules

1. Rub salt on skin of the chicken and the inside and let it rest for 2 hours.
2. Pat dry any moisture.
3. Combine 1 cup of mochi sticky rice, finely chopped carrots, dried shitake mushroom, dried shrimp, the juice from the rehydrated shiitake mushrooms and all the seasoning ingredients and cook with a bit less water than usual.
4. Stuff the cooked rice into the chicken, close it with toothpicks, and tie the legs with a twine.
5. (Tying is optional) Brush the chicken with olive oil.
6. Place the chicken on a baking sheet breast-side up, and put the vegetables around.
7. Roast in a preheated 230C oven for 80 minutes.
8. Baste the chicken occasionally with the pan juices from the vegetables!
9. After 30 minutes, pour consomme soup stock over the chicken to make crispy skin!
10. Baste the chicken with pan juices will give a shine to the chicken.
11. It will be more delicious if you use 7:3 sticky rice: regular rice ratio for the seasoned rice.
12. Wiping the chicken's moisture off with white wine will eliminate any odor that chicken has.
13. To check whether chicken is cooked perfectly, check for a crispy golden brown skin, the chicken pushes back when you poke it, and it will release a clear juice when you insert a skewer.
14. You can preheat the oven to 250C and lower to 230C to roast the chicken (since the oven temperature lowers when you put the chicken in).
15. Looks pretty with a ribbon.
16. I recommend roasting apples with it too!

chicken, salt, vegetables, sticky, carrot, shitake mushrooms, shrimp, shiitake mushrooms, soy sauce, granules

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/145683-seasoned-mochi-sticky-rice-stuffed-roast-chicken-for-christmas (may not work)