Turkish · Dinner
Roasted Stuffed Chicken with Spiced Rice
Tavuklu Pilic Dolmasi
Ottoman whole stuffed chicken filled with rice, pine nuts, currants, and warm spices, slow-roasted until skin crisps deeply and the cavity-rice plumps with savoury juices, served with parsley and lemon.
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20 minsPrep
65 minsCook
85 minsTotal
HardLevel
Nutrition per serving
728Calories
52gProtein
28gFat
62gCarbs
12gSugar
3gFiber
680mgSodium
145mgChol
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Instructions
1
Prep
Heat oven to 180°C. Pat both poussins dry inside and out, rub skin with salt and pepper. Rinse rice. Dice onions, chop parsley, halve lemons. Measure all spices, stock, and remaining ingredients.
2
Saute
Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat 1 minute. Add onions and pine nuts, cook 4 minutes until onions soften and nuts turn deep golden. Stir in currants, allspice, cinnamon, mint, salt, and pepper 30 seconds until fragrant.
3
Build
Add rice and toast over medium heat 1 minute until grains glisten. Pour in 240ml hot stock, simmer over low heat 5 minutes until liquid mostly absorbs and rice is half-cooked. Remove from heat, let cool 5 minutes.
4
Stuff
Divide warm rice mixture equally and spoon into both poussin cavities until packed tight. Tuck wings under each bird, tie legs with kitchen string to seal the openings completely.
5
Roast
Set both poussins breast-up in a heavy oven-safe pot (or two smaller pots if needed), drizzle with olive oil, pour remaining stock and bay leaves around. Roast at 180°C for 50 minutes until skin is deeply burnished and juices run clear when thighs are pierced.
6
Glaze
Rest poussins on a board 8 minutes off heat. Skim fat from pot juices, reduce over medium-high heat 3 minutes until glossy jus forms. Sprinkle pul biber over poussins, brush with reduced jus over medium-low heat 60 seconds until skin glazes deep red.
7
Plate
Untie legs on both birds, scoop rice filling onto a warm platter, lay poussins alongside, ladle remaining jus over, scatter parsley, finish with lemon squeeze.
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Serves
2 portions ·
2 adults, 0 over 10, 0 under 10
Ingredients
- 1.2 kg (42.3 oz) poussin (two 600g birds)
- 2 tsp fine sea salt
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
- 200g (7.1 oz) basmati rice
- 240g (8.5 oz) yellow onion
- 60g (2.1 oz) pine nuts
- 40g (1.4 oz) dried currants
- 2 tsp ground allspice
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp dried mint
- 60g (2.1 oz) unsalted butter
- 480ml (2 cups) hot chicken stock
- 20ml (4 tsp) extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 small lemons
- 20g (small handful) flat-leaf parsley
- 1 tsp pul biber Aleppo flakes
- 2 small bay leaves