CHICKEN STUFF

Chicken stuffing its been my favourite and i love it when my mumy makes it....
There isnt anything better than this as a reward and added in this her love makes it all the more tastieee...
Many try out with different things for the filling but the best is the one my mummy makes and has taught me to .....the spices are proper, blended with perfection and the taste is just so Awesome!!!

There is a little history to this dish( i cannot forget to mention this)
Its a Special dish used during engagements ceremony wherein the brides side prepare this for the going to be groom and then the groom has to cut his most favourite part of the chicken and people will make joke on how he cuts and how he bites ...its fun!!!

chicken stuffed

Ingredients:
1 whole chicken(around 1.25 to 1.5 kg) with skin
1 onion finely chopped
1 tomato finely chopped
a few flakes(5-6) of garlic very finely chopped(can use the ginger garlic chopper)
Small piece of ginger very finely chopped(not necessary)
1 potato( boiled and chopped fine into small cubes)
1 carrot( boiled and chopped finely into cubes)
1 katori Green peas (boiled)
1-2 chilli
8-10 cashews(broken into pieces)
8-10 kismis (the upper stem removed)
1 liver & 1 gizard (of the whole chicken itself) (boiled and chopped into very small cubes)
2 slices of bread
Salt, Tumeric powder, Pepper powder, sugar
Juice of 2 lemons
Garam Masala ( a lil bit)
Coriander leaves(chopped finely)

1. Wash the chicken thoroughly, letting water pass through it and putting your hand in it and cleaning it. (You can cut off the head)
2. Mix salt and tumeric in a small bowl and rub this mixture on the chicken. Also rub the juice of 1 lemon on it 
3. Keep aside.
4. In a frying pan, add little oil, add the chopped onions, let it fry.
5. On the other side boil the vegetables  in 1 vessel and the liver and gizard in the other
6. Add chopped tomatoes, chillies, garlic and ginger to the onions. Let it cook.
7. Add tumeric, and pepper powder(lil bit)
8. After boiling, strain the veggies and chop them
9. Similarly chop the liver and gizard
10. Add the veggies, the chopped liver and gizard. let it cook
11. Add the cashew and kismis. Use a spatula to stir.
12. take the 2 slices of bread and chop it finely
13. Add the chopped bread slices to it
14. Add pepper powder, salt, sugar, lemon juice (1 -2 tsp), garam masala(very lil)
15. Add coriander (chopped finely).
16. Let it cool(under the fan)

 Take the whole chicken, fill the stuffing from the opening with your hands. (stuff it literally, like a teddy bear)
take a big needle, and a thick thread, stitch the opening (as u learnt in school the basic 1)

Heat the oven for 10 min at 180 -200 degree celsius
Rub the chicken with ghee in your hands
Bake it in the oven for around an hour or more till its golden brown.
(You can even stuff the chicken and keep it overnight in the fridge and then bake the next morning for a sunday lunch
Enjoy it...its a full meal and a delicacy in its own
(Some people also rub a lil bit of ginger garlic paste very little in the beginning while salting the chicken for added flavor. We do not, i like it simple but if you feel it will be bland, rub a little of the paste)