Teach me how to cook a whole chicken pls

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sister dip the chicken in salty water for a coule of hours b4 marinating.....trust me......ive cooked chicken breasts this way and it gives it a better taste
 
Gossamer skye said:
:haha: brilliant I love how you guys help me.. al7mdlilah, I was searching on the web yesterday and I wasn't getting any good recipes.. try googling 'how to cook a whole chicken' see what comes up.. BTW I asked that they cut the chicken last time and the butcher gave me pieces I COULDN'T WORK WITH. he must have thought I was making them with rice or something but I boiled them and fried them and they fell apart, half of them went into the garbage (astghfor Allah)

anyhow let's see, this chicken is quite large actually, I don't know if it is swollen because they went to butcher then came the same day, I don't have a scale for thic chicken but it is big..
ok for the ingredients that I have

summer squash
mushrooms
some greens I am not quite sure of their names but it is written on them (parsley) and such, I also have potatoes, and my mom has quite a huge spice rack although all the stuff comes in small containers.
The chicken is outside waiting for me to take interest..
I am going to go through Br ZAK's recipes (is there is a nice substitute for curry?) It is kind of hot isn't it?

I thought you must disinfect chicken? with vinegar and salt and lemon and alot of washing?
Br yusuf the icky poos are gone gone gone (I hope) I don't want surprises inside that chicken...

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Looking at your ingrediants, try this:

turn on the oven at 375F to preheat

Rinse the chicken inside and out with cold running water.

While the chicken is doing it's best to dry prepare your roating pan. Simply oil it lightly with olive oil

Now oil the outside of the chicken by lightly rubbing olive oikle over the outside, you probabaly have enough on your hands from just oiling the pan.

Rub the inside with salt and pepper and any spice you like. I find fennel and ginger to go very well

Now prepare a simple veggie stuffing:

coarsely cut the mushrooms, squash and a few potatoes into chunks toss together in a large bowl with some salt pepper and small amount of ginger you can also add fennel, basil, oregano, and or sage. Add some chopped onion, celery tomatoes and garlic if available. (I usually add in some toasted pine nuts and or slivered toasted almonds)

this is going to be a very loose chunky stuffing, but tastey

Fill the chicken with this

Line the bottom of the pan with the left over chopped veggies, add a few additional sliced potatoes so you have a nice bed about 2 inches deep of veggies. Add just enough water to cover the veggies.

Set the chicken on it's back, on top of the veggie bed.

Put it in the oven, which should be hot by now.

Close the oven door, go read a book, watch TV or post here for the next hour.

After an hour check the chicken to see if it is done. If you can easily pull a leg free it is done. If not recheck every 15 minutes until it is done. when it is done raise the temp to 425F for 15 minutes. That should nicely brown the outside and make the skin crust.

OH if the veggies look dry at any point give them some more water. You want to have just enough water so they look damp, not like they are swimming. At the last stage it is ok for the top of the veggies to get dry and turn brown.
 
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You didn't. Oh well I don't know how to make even chai so who am I to say that.
 
cover chicken with tandoori mix mixed with yogurt, leave to marinade for about 2 hours anddd thenn putt in ovenn withh potatoes and sproutss. then put in the oven andddd ta daa youu gott a more than decent roast chickenn - withh an oriental touch - i dont like the salt and pepper english versun lol .


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oh and to make sure its done poke a fork into each part and if the juice runs clear its done, if it comes as blood it needs more cookingg
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I'm vegetarian now, but when I was a fully-fledged carnivore I used to put a *whole lemon* pricked with a knife into the cavity of the chicken with loads of cloves of garlic and rosemary from my garden.

As the chicken cooks the lemon lets out all of its lemony steam and it infuses right into the flesh.....

The best lemony-garlicky fragranced chicken ever....mmmmm

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Oh and free range chicken not only tastes better but it means the bird's not been subjected to a dark life of miserable confinement!
 
It isnt, if you eat a strictly vegetarian diet :) But if you want a nice t bone steak or roast chicken thenn yhh mann dont bee afraidd to gett yourr hands dirty lol
 
cool.. al7mdlilah the chicken is now in the oven with as many ingredients as I could chop up and stuff in there...

Now pls someone teach me how to make pasta sauce from tomato paste?

Jazakoum Allah

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lol, this thread is really funny and interesting
I don't know that one chicken can make many people come up with such ideas and being in such noise lol...

Gossamer, I wish "really wish" to send you a roasted chicken as a PM <3
so you will not bother yourself honey with something you don't like to do

I think IT people have to work on such thing to make it happen :rollseyes
 
this thread as inspired me to cook a whole chicken inshallah today, especially that tastey chicken picture that was posted!
 
well now I have learned a skill for life insha'Allah :confused:
so anyone for how to make pasta sauce from the paste, but tasty sauce..
I am googling now will check here in 10 mins to see if you guys came up with something...


as a separate note: I don't know why some folks assume that if you are born female you have some innate abilities like caring for kids or cooking.. isn't everything learned? Thanks for teaching me several useful ways to cook chicken, probably my mom knows just two ways to make it in the oven and now I know several because I asked! :D

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:sl: Nice one!!!! Pasta sauce........ok this is how i make it........Tinned tomatos, bit of chillie and salt fried in a little bit of olive oil.......add two/three spoonfulls of lemon........ shred some pre-cooked chicken cook in the sauce for two/three minutes .............add pasta (cooked ) and serve with a sprig of corriander ontop!!!!!! Works a treat everytime!!!!:bump1::w
 
Brilliant Jazaki Allah khyran-- I did that plus added minced garlic and some olive oil....

let's see how they like it lol while I eat cereal =)

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Gossamer skye said:
well now I have learned a skill for life insha'Allah :confused:
so anyone for how to make pasta sauce from the paste, but tasty sauce..
I am googling now will check here in 10 mins to see if you guys came up with something...


as a separate note: I don't know why some folks assume that if you are born female you have some innate abilities like caring for kids or cooking.. isn't everything learned? Thanks for teaching me several useful ways to cook chicken, probably my mom knows just two ways to make it in the oven and now I know several because I asked! :D

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Your Sister Aabidah is hollering at me to give you her pasta sauce recipe. You have to remember, she was married to an Italian for over 40 years.

She is going to write it out for me and either she or myself will paste it in here.
 
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Your Sister Aabidah is hollering at me to give you her pasta sauce recipe. You have to remember, she was married to an Italian for over 40 years.

She is going to write it out for me and either she or myself will paste it in here.
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woohoo..
if people survive the night :skeleton: after having my chicken then I'll try the sauce insha'Aallah :D Thank sis for me..

my chicken was a bust :raging::raging: seemed kind of undone after three hrs of cooking, and didn't brown nicely and the 'summer squash' was weird, my dad kept asking me what that was?.. he said it seemed like something that should be included in desert ;D ;D

I was supposed to put it in soup but it lingered in the fridge long enough that I had to use it in something ..

this was a good learning experience hopefully I will get better at it, although I really can't be bothered, had to shower and bathe my niece in the midst since I dislike the way food lingers on the skin and clothes..

we need to have the jetson technology when it comes cooking :statisfie


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roasting bags are such a good invention, bird in bag, bag in oven, 20 mins a pound at 200 plus 20 extra. Deliscious
 
:sl: What a laugh brother TK........... To me that is pure laziness!!! Also does it taste the same after being in a bag??

My brother has this microwave thingy which was quite poular a while ago and the chicken roasts as it turns............ All the juice drops into the tray at the bottom and he only uses peri-peri sauce............. I am now in desperate need of some chicken...............:bump1::w:
 
could be a lazy way, but have cooked for many people and am not bad at it, chicken in the bag is time saving and if you add spuds etc is really melt in the mouth. Try it, good if you have kids etc. But ultimately a lazy chicken method. Microwave chicken (chicken ding) never sounded very appealing tho. Once cooked a turkey for over 13 hrs in my pre Muslim days, came out like a rubber sparrow, totally ruined xmas dinner !!!!
 

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