Asian Christmas Roast Chicken

 Recipe from kuali.com

 Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken (1.5kg)
Chicken stuffing
• 2 Russet potatoes, diced
• 400g button mushroom, sliced
• 200g oyster mushroom
• 1 carrot, diced
• 1 celery stick, diced
• 1 cup French loaf, cut into small pieces
• 8 garlic cloves with skin
• 1 yellow onion, chopped
• 125g butter
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1 tsp chilli flakes
• 50g rosemary
Butter mix for the chicken. Mix together.
• 100gm butter
• 1 tsp chili flake
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• Rosemary

Method

Melt butter over low heat. Add onion, garlic, potatoes , carrot and celery. Cook for 5 mins. Add mushrooms, bread, salt, pepper, chilli flakes and herbs. Cook for 2 mins. Fill chicken with stuffings. Keep aside balance stuffing. Rub butter mixture all over the chicken. Place chicken and balance of the stuffing in a roasting tin. Cook for about 45 mins at 200 degrees Celcius. Baste chicken every 15mins. Note: To make sauce, place the roasting tin with roasted stuffing (balance) over medium heat, mix in 4 tbsp of flour and 500ml chicken stock. Cook for 7 mins. Then remove from fire. Tips: Once the chicken is cooked, remove from oven. Then cover with an aluminium foil for 15 mins to keep it moist .