CHICKEN WITH MANDARIN
Main courses
CHICKEN WITH MANDARIN
Ingredients for 6 people
- A clean chicken (about 1.5 kg)
- 200 gr. vegetable broth
- 3 shallots
- A medium onion
- two carrots
- A stick of celery
- 10 mandarins
- 1 bay leaf
- a sprig of thyme
- a knob of butter
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Salt.
Fill the chicken with shallots, peeled but whole, thyme, bay leaf and 2 tangerines with peel, cut into small pieces.
Coat the chicken with the butter and oil, tie the legs so that the filling does not spill out:
Place the chicken in a baking dish, cover and bake at 180 degrees for about 50 '
Meanwhile, prepare the chopped carrot and celery. Squeeze 2 tangerines and put the juice aside.
Chop the peels and other 2 tangerines, after the cooking time, put them in the pan with the chicken broth and chopped vegetables.
Return to the oven always covered for another 50 'or so.
Once cooked, remove the pan from the oven, take the chicken, cut the string and put it on a plate covered with aluminum foil and keep warm.
Mash with a fork, the juices, filter it and put it in the fridge for at least 30 'so you can remove the fat that forms on the surface.
Put this fund in a saucepan and add the juice of mandarins kept aside. Boil and let it reduce a little.
Peel the mandarins were and saut? them in a little 'butter.
Serve the chicken doused in sauce and garnished with mandarin oranges.
To outline recommend a salad of fennel and black olives!
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