Chicken Baked with Aromatic Butter and Mandarins

Main Dishes | European cuisine

⏳ Time

2 hours

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Mandarins combined with fresh herbs and honey give the chicken a rich flavor: tangy, exotic, and festive.

Ingredients

Star anise - 2 pieces
Poultry - 2 pieces
Duck wings - 2 lbs
Semi-Smoked Sausage - 7.1 oz
Mandarins - 2 pieces
Onion - 2 heads
Carrot - 2 pieces
Celery stalk - 1 piece
Sage - ⅓ bunches
Thyme - ⅓ bunches
Rosemary - ⅓ bunches
Dried cranberries with sugar - 7.1 oz
Salted Butter - 8.8 oz
Bay leaf - 2 pieces
Honey - 1 tablespoon
Wheat Flour - 3 spoons
Salt - to taste
Ground Black Pepper - to taste
Nutmeg - to taste

Step by Step guide

Step 1

For this dish, you need a large chicken weighing about 3 kg, or two smaller ones, each weighing 1.5 kg.

Step 2

Finely chop the cranberries, two sprigs of sage, a sprig of rosemary, and five sprigs of thyme. Mash together with softened butter.

Step 3

Place the chicken breast-side up, carefully insert a tablespoon under the skin of the breasts to separate it from the meat, then spoon in the butter mixture and distribute it evenly.

Step 4

Grease the insides of the chickens with the remaining butter. Stuff each with two halves of a mandarin, place them on a baking sheet, and put in an oven preheated to 392°F. After five minutes, reduce the temperature to 180 degrees and leave for 40 minutes.

Step 5

Crush the wings with a knife, place them in a skillet, and add coarsely chopped carrots, onion, celery, bacon, bay leaves, star anise, nutmeg, and honey. Put in the oven for twenty minutes at 392°F.

Step 6

Wrap the cooked chicken in foil and let it rest. Place the wings in a pot, add 800 ml of warm water, bring to a boil, and add flour to thicken the sauce. Reduce the sauce and strain it twice through a sieve. Serve the chicken with the sauce.