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Roasted Chicken with Savory Cranberry Chutney, Roasted Sweet Potatoes, and Couscous (featuring New Plates)

Dinner Jan 6, 2023 - Whole Roasted Chicken with Savory Cranberry Chutney, Roasted Sweet Potatoes,                                         and Couscous


Cranberry Chutney was made ahead, couscous made following packages instructions





Cranberry Chutney

1lb of cranberries

Low Sodium Chicken Stock

1 Sprig of Rosemary, minced

To Taste

    Sugar

    Salt

    White Miso Paste


-Add cranberries, enough stock to cover them, rosemary, a dash of salt, two tablespoons of sugar, and two tablespoons of miso paste to a sauce pan

-Cook over medium- low heat until cranberries start to break down into a jam like texture

-Taste test and add any needed additional seasoning, likely will need sweetening, but only enough to counter the tartness, don't actually make it sweet


Whole Roasted Chicken

1 Large Onion

1 Whole Chicken

Vegetable Oil

Salt 

Pepper

Cranberry Chutney

-Preheat oven to 425°F with a rack in the middle position

-Cut the onion in half and cut each half into strips, add the onion to the bottom of a dutch oven

-Coat the chicken with oil and season with salt and pepper, place seasoned chicken on top of the onions

-Spread a generous amount of cranberry chutney on top of the chicken

-Cook the chicken with the lid on for an hour

-Remove the lid and allow the chicken to cook for another 30 minutes

-Check the temperature of the chicken in a few thick spots before removing from oven


"Parboiled" and Roasted Sweet Potatoes

https://grimmsfoodietale.blogspot.com/2022/11/kenjis-best-roasted-sweet-potatoes


Final Notes:

-Chutney was sweet enough when made, but got more tart with age (might have been a week and a half between making and use)

-Goodbye to Granny's old Corelle plates! You served me well through college and up to now, as well as my whole family before that. But it's time to move on to a "blank canvas" of white stoneware to try to up my plating game.

                                Taken minutes before the first picture, and actively tried to make it look worse for a funny, dramatic comparison






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