Peanut-Roasted Chicken
- 1 3- to 3 1/2-pound chicken
- 1 tablespoon roasted peanut oil
- 1/2 tablespoon unsalted butter
- Salt and fresh-ground black pepper to taste
- 1/2 medium onion, sliced
- 1/2 cup raw peanuts
- 1 cup unsalted chicken stock
- 20 garlic cloves, unpeeled
- 1/2 cup white wine or additional unsalted chicken stock
- Preheat the oven to 400F.
- Grease the rack of a small roasting pan.
- Slip your fingers under the chickens skin, and loosen it, being careful not to tear it.
- Massage the oil into the flesh and inside the cavity.
- Rub the butter over the chickens skin.
- Salt and pepper the chicken generously inside and out.
- Fill the cavity with the onion and 1/4 cup of the peanuts.
- Place the chicken on the rack in the roasting pan, breast up, and roast it for 15 minutes.
- Turn the chicken on one side, add the garlic cloves to the pan, and baste the chicken with a little stock.
- Reduce the heat to 350F.
- and cook the bird 15 minutes more.
- Turn the chicken on its other side, add the remaining 1/4 cup of peanuts to the pan, and baste again.
- Cook 15 minutes longer, and turn the bird back-side up.
- Pour the wine or additional stock over it, and roast it for another 15 minutes.
- Turn the chicken breast up again, and baste it with the pan juices and a little more stock.
- After 15 more minutes, the chicken should be golden brown with a, crispy skin.
- The total cooking time is 1 1/4 hours.
- Remove the chicken from the oven.
- Spoon out the onion and peanuts from its cavity; and add them to the roasting pan.
- Transfer the chicken to a serving platter, cover it with a foil tent, and let it sit for 10 to 15 minutes before carving it.
- Pour the contents of the roasting pan and the wine or remaining stock into a blender or food processor, and puree.
- Strain the sauce, reheat it if needed, and serve it in a gravy boat along with the roast chicken.
chicken, peanut oil, unsalted butter, salt, onion, peanuts, garlic, white wine
Taken from www.cookstr.com/recipes/peanut-roasted-chicken (may not work)