Stuffed Chicken – Chicken in a Bag

After the barbecue party, I just started to get rid of my tiredness. On Saturday evening, everything seemed like a dream :) On Sunday, we went to Emirgan and then to Forum Istanbul AVM to distract ourselves and relax a little. We bought lots of ingredients and started to try new flavors.

Stuffed chicken was a recipe I wanted to make for a long time. I decided to prepare it for my mother-in-law who came to visit yesterday. It is very easy to make, while the chicken is cooking in the oven (about 2 hours), you have as much free time as you want. The recipe was prepared by my aunt before. chicken rice in the oven almost the same.

We were 8 people in total for dinner. Apart from the rice I prepared inside, I made 2 cups of stuffed rice. Seasoned chicken soup from the leftover water of the chicken in the bag.
When my dessert was left to the last minute, I prepared a very practical, yet elegant and delicious meringue cake. I will share the recipe for the cake with you tomorrow.

I served the chicken on top of the other rice I prepared, but I couldn't find the time to take a photo :)

Chicken was around 1 kilo and 800 gr, rice made from 1 glass of water was enough for it. While making the pilaf to be stuffed into the chicken, the important thing is to cook the pilaf alive with little water. If you ask why, it continues to cook with chicken broth in the chicken anyway. When you leave it slightly alive, your inner rice does not become mush.

Remember, if you fill the inside of the chicken too much, the chicken may explode and create an ugly appearance.

Stuffed rice with chestnut you can too. Love…

My menu was pretty practical. Stuffed chicken (you can say Christmas chicken), seasoned chicken soup, mixed green salad, vegetable lasagna and meringue pie.

Stuffed Chicken - Ingredients for Chicken in a Bag Recipe

• 1 whole chicken
• half an onion
• 1 oven bag

For the stuffed rice:

• 1 cups of rice
• half a teaspoon of olive oil
• 1 small onion
• 2 tablespoons of currants
• 2 tablespoon of pine nuts
• 1 pinch of parsley
• salt
• allspice
• black pepper

Stuffed Chicken – How to Make Chicken in a Bag Recipe?

1. Peel and finely chop the onion, finely chop the parsley.
2. Take the olive oil in the pan and fry the onion, add the pine nuts close to the pink color of the onion to the onions and fry the peanuts until they turn pink.
3. Add the rice and fry for 3 minutes. Finally, add the currants, spices and 1 cups of water.
4. Cook on medium heat until the rice absorbs its water, take it off the heat and add the parsley and mix it 1-2 times and leave it to cool.
5. When your rice is warm, stuff it into the chicken.
6. As in the photo, make a scratch on the skin of the chicken, combine the legs, and place the chicken in the oven bag with half an onion.
7. Make a few holes on the bag with a toothpick and bake for about 200 hours in a preheated oven at 2 degrees.