Cooking Recipe Cider Cooked Chicken
Recipe Ingredients
Directions
Wash and dry chicken. Sprinkle inside and out with salt and pepper.
Sprinkle apples with lemon juice. Heat half the butter and all the
oil in heavy skillet. Add half the apples. Saute 5 min. until
browned. Add ginger. Stuff Chicken with apples and tie or skewer
chicken cavity closed. Add remaining butter to pan. Brown chicken
slowly on all sides. Place chicken in heavy casserole with lid. Add
uncooked apples, green onions, thyme, cinnamon (if used), cloves and
sugar to skillet. Saute 2 min. Add cider; heat to boiling. Pour over
chicken. Cover chicken with waxed paper; put lid on. Bake at 400 F
until chicken is done (check doneness by seeing if leg moves easily),
45 min. to 1 hr. Put chicken on heated platter. Skim fat from pan
juices. Heat juices to boiling. Cook down to 1 cup. Mix cornstarch
with heavy cream. Stir into boiling juices. Cook until thickened.
Taste and add salt and pepper. Pour sauce over chicken. garnish with
parsley.
-- per Louise Derrick