Roast Chicken with Helzel Stuffing
Roast Chicken with Helzel Stuffing

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In grandma's time chickens always had the neck skin, which was cut off and filled with this stuffing. If you are using matzo meal, you will need to add about ½ cup water to moisten the stuffing. Obviously my grandmother didn't use a food processor to chop her vegetables, but you want them almost.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook roast chicken with helzel stuffing using 18 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Roast Chicken with Helzel Stuffing:
  1. Prepare For the chicken:
  2. Make ready 1 large chicken, about 2.25 kg
  3. Make ready 1 onion, peeled and coarsely chopped
  4. Get 1 cup cold water
  5. Prepare For the helzel:
  6. Get 100 g medium matzo meal
  7. Take 100 g plain flour
  8. Make ready 75 g hard margarine, cut into small cubes
  9. Prepare 1 onion, grated, with most of the juice squeezed out
  10. Take 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  11. Take 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
  12. Take For the gravy:
  13. Take 250 g thinly sliced chestnut or button mushrooms
  14. Get Chicken stock from the roasting tin or cubes as required
  15. Make ready 1 tablespoon plain flour
  16. Get 1 teaspoon cornflour mixed with 25 ml cold water (optional)
  17. Get Vegetable oil for frying
  18. Get Salt and white pepper

This whole roasted chicken is stuffed with a savory bread dressing. This is the chicken recipe you need to prepare for your Sunday dinner. Coated with butter, stuffed with fresh veggies and herbs, and roasted to perfection, this chicken is ready in under two hours; serve with mashed potatoes and. Loosely pack the stuffing mix into the main cavity and any left into the neck cavity folding the skin over it.

Steps to make Roast Chicken with Helzel Stuffing:
  1. Preheat your oven to 180°C / 350°F / gas mark 4.
  2. In a bowl, loosely work together all of the helzel ingredients to form a coarse, crumble-like mixture.
  3. For ease, I stand the bird in the sink and spoon the helzel mix into the body cavity. The cavity should be loosely packed but well filled. You can secure the skin with wooden cocktail sticks or a skewer.
  4. If there is sufficient skin around the neck of the bird, you can also fill this cavity with helzel and sew it up with a needle and thread, otherwise cover with tinfoil. (In our house it is a treat to get the well-roasted, crispy skin with the cotton attached.) Any excess helzel can be cooked as below.
  5. Weigh the stuffed bird and use this cooking guide: - 1.0 – 1.3kg: 1½ – 1¾ hours - 1.3 – 1.8kg: 1¾ – 2 hours - 1.8 – 2.7kg: 2 – 2¼ hours
  6. Rub the outside of the bird with oil and salt.
  7. Sit it on a wire rack, breast side down, over a roasting tin containing the cup of water and chopped onion.
  8. Roast for one hour, then turn it over and finish the cooking breast side up.
  9. While it’s roasting, make the gravy: fry the mushrooms in oil until they start to brown then combine them with a tablespoon of plain flour.
  10. Add the juices from the roasting tin, top up with chicken stock if necessary, and stir well.
  11. Bring to a boil. Thicken with the cornflour and water if you wish. Check the seasoning.
  12. Allow it to simmer, covered, for 15 – 20 minutes.
  13. After roasting, the bird should be golden brown. If the skin has not yet crisped, give it another 10 – 15 minutes at 200°C / 390°F / gas mark 6.
  14. Serve the chicken with a spoonful of helzel, plenty of mushroom gravy, and vegetables. Helen’s roast potatoes and/or potato kugel are essential. Find recipes for both of these at www.justnotkosher.com
  15. If you are cooking chicken portions (with nothing to stuff) and you’d like helzel alongside, wrap the mixture in a loose tinfoil parcel, secure the edges, and place in an oven dish half-filled with hot water.
  16. Cook at 180°C / 350°F / gas mark 4 for about 1½ hours, topping up the water as necessary.
  17. Remove from the oven, carefully drain off the water, open the parcel and serve as above.

Roast chicken and stuffing makes any meal a celebration. TIP: For a fun presentation, make individual stuffing cups. Stuff chicken with your homemade seasoning. Don't fill it up to much as the breadcrumbs will expand during cooking. Remove the chicken from the roasting pan and cover with foil to keep warm.

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