Pot roasted chicken with apples

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 Chicken (4 1/2 lbs)
1 pounds Cooking apples; core/peel
½ teaspoon Ginger
½ teaspoon Cloves
½ teaspoon Sage
1½ pounds Ground sausage (irish garlic if you can get
1 large Onion; sliced
Juice and zest of 1 lemon
2 teaspoons Sugar
½ large Onion; chopped
2 tablespoons Oil
Flour
1 pint Cider
Salt & pepper
Cooked carrots and peas For garnish

Directions

(Sicin potrosta le hulla-Irish gaelic) Wipe the chicken & remove the fat lumps from inside. Peel and core the apples, slice thinly. Combine ½ the sausage meat with the onion slices and ¾ of the apple slices. Add spices, lemon zest & sugar and mix well. Stuff the bird and secure. Heat oil in a large pan and brown the chicken, sprinkle with flour cook for a coule of minutes turning in the oil. Transfer to a large casserole, roll the remainder of the sausage into little balls the size of walnuts and sprinkle them with flour. Chop the remainder of the apples and mix with the chopped onion& arrange around the chicken. Place the meatballs on top of the apple/onion. Heat the cider/lemon juice and pour into the casserole. Cover and cook gently on top of the stove or in a 300 degree oven, 1-1½ hours.

Remove to a warm serving dish, surround with meatballs and spoon sauce over the chicken, continue to heat the sauce if thicker sauce is desired, garnish with buttered carrots and peas. serves 6 Bon Appetit Frank Bayait Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #813 by Nancy Berry <nlberry@...> on Sep 28, 1997

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