My Christmas Roast Chicken

I would like to post this article "My Christmas Roast Chicken" as the last blog in year 2010. My family love this roast chicken so much & we had a wonderful Christmas celebration. I managed to take leave from work on the Christmas eve. It belongs to the family.

As this is the 1st time I am roasting a chicken, it is actually quite easy. In fact, if you are busy, you should roast a chicken. Just simply marinate the chicken & put it in side the oven for 1-1.5 hours. The oven will get the job done. You just need to serve it.


Simple Ingredients:
1-1.2kg Chicken
50g unsalted butter (melted)
1 ea orange
2 big clove of garlic (keep skin intact)
2 cup of water or beer
Salt & pepper

Onion, carrot, celery, potato
- cut all these into big chunk , oil it & salt + pepper it

Method:
1) Heat oven 180'C
2) Marinate the chicken inside salt & pepper
3) Rub the butter on the chicken skin outside. Premium butter will bring great taste.
4) Stuff slices of orange inside the chicken & not forgetting some garlic.
5) Lay all the big chunks vegetable on the tray, then lay the chicken on top of the big chunk vegetables.
6) Pour 2 cups of water inside the roasting pant & start roasting @180'C for 80 mins
7) You can also use beer instead of water. It taste even better. This is to keep the roast chicken moist. You can add the water again if the water is dried up during the roasting process.
8) To make the brown sauces, it is easy. Just put a knob of butter into the roasting pan together with all the juices (from the chicken), 2 tablespoon of flour. Then, cook all these on the stove, scrapping the roasting pan clean. Salt & pepper it.



Finally, we end our meal with these outrages caramel peanut cupcakes. What a fatty meal ;).
It is OKAY to indulge sometimes.