Roasted chicken with African flavours
This roasted chicken with African spices is a pure delight, especially if it is eaten with a spicy sauce. this roast can be enjoyed with rice, roasted potatoes or another side dish of your choice.
Equipment
- roasting tray
- oven
- Blender
- knife
- grinder
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken
- 2 lemons
- 3 onions
- 2 african nutmeg(Pebe)
- 4 country onions
- 20 seeds of Djansang
- 7 g Prékéssé (Fruit 4 côtés/Esesè)
- 6 branches of parsley
- 6 garlic cloves
- 1 handful of basil
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp white pepper powder
- 1 tsp black pepper powder
- 1 hot pepper optional
- salt
- oil
Instructions
- Clean and wash the chicken with water. Cut one lemon into two parts and spread one half all over the chicken.
- Put the African nutmeg, country onions, Djansang and Prékéssé into the grinder and grind them together. Then pour the mix into the blender. Afterwards, add the cleaned and roughly chopped two onions, garlic, parsley, basil and hot pepper. Blend them all.
- Pour the mixture into a bowl, add the salt, two tablespoon of oil, white and black pepper. Stir and taste, adjust the quantity of salt if necessary.
- Marinate the whole chicken in and out with half of this mixture and reserve the other half for the hot pepper sauce later(if you plan to do one). Separate the chicken's skin from the breast meat with your hands( dont remove the skin). Insert the knife between the skin and the breast, slash it 5 to 6 times and put seasoning inside each slit. Cut each thigh as well and insert the seasoning. Cover the chicken for at least 12 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 230°C. Place the marinated chicken in the roasting tray and rub it with oil. Cut the remaining onion into two parts. Put one half of the onion together with the remaining lemon inside the chicken's cavity. Then tie the two ends of the chicken thigh with a kitchen string. Put the other half of onion in the tray.
- Place the chicken in the oven, let it roast for 40 min at 200°C. Remove it, rub it with oil and put it back again for another 40 min. Check if cooked, if not roast for another 20 min.