Recipes
Free-range Corn-fed Chicken from my Granny
Ingredients for 4 persons
- 1 free-range corn-fed chicken
- A few branches of hay
- 50 g butter
- 50 cl white base
For lacquering
- 5 tablespoons of honey
- 1 tablespoon of curry
- 1 tablespoon of paprika
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 pinch of pepper
Mini vegetables for the garnish
- 12 carrots
- 12 beets
- 12 turnips
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
Make the “lacquer”: in a saucepan, boil the honey, the paprika, the curry, the pepper and the salt.
Brush the poultry with the lukewarm lacquer. Put a few sprigs of hay inside the chicken. Glaze the turnips, carrots and beets in butter and white base. Cook the chicken for 50 minutes at 180 °C, basting it regularly.
Enjoy your meal!
Source:
Frédéric Metzger, Restaurant Erckmann-Chatrian à Phalsbourg