Name of Recipe:Roast Chicken with Hazelnuts and Honey
Number of People:4
Ingredients:
1 large chicken, jointed
2 onions, roughly chopped,
4 tbs olive oil
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 generous pinch of saffron
juice of 1 lemon
4 tbs cold water
2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp black pepper
100 gm unskinned hazelnuts, toasted
70 gm honey
2 tbs rosewater 2 chopped spring onions
Preparation:In a large bowl, mix chicken, onions, olive oil,ginger, cinnamon, saffron, lemon juice, water, salt and pepper and marinade overnight.
Arrange the chicken and marinade in a baking tray, skin side up and cook at 190C for about 35 minutes.
While the chicken is roasting, mix honey, rosewater and nuts to make a rough paste. When chicken almost done, spread honey paste over the pieces and return to oven to brown for 5-10 minutes until nuts are golden brown.
Serve with spring onion garnish.
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Tips/Hints: This recipe is from "Ottolenghi: The Cookbook" and I hope that they don't mind. This is not a Thermomix recipe, but is so good that I think everyone should try it at least once!!
