Stuffed roast chicken with potatoes
A whole chicken stuffed with milk-soaked bread, ham, olives, egg and onion, roasted in the same tin as the potatoes. Made for Christmas, New Year and Sunday lunch; also done with a small turkey, with mince in the stuffing, or boned and rolled.
- 2 h 30Time
- 40 minHands-on
- 4Portions
- ≈ $ 4.000per portion
- 950kcal per portion
Ingredients for 4 portions
- 1.5 kgWhole roasting chicken, 1 whole chicken
- 1Lemon, juiced
- 2 clovesGarlic, finely chopped
- 1 tspPaprika
- to tasteSalt
- to tasteBlack pepper
- 150 gBread, day-old, crusts removed
- 150 mlMilk
- 1 tbspButter
- 1Yellow onion, finely chopped
- 150 gHam, diced
- 60 gGreen olives, pitted, chopped
- 1Egg
- 2 tbspParsley, chopped
- to tasteNutmeg
- 1 kgPotato, peeled, in large chunks
- 2 tbspRapeseed oil, for the potatoes
- ≈ 200 mlWater
Method
- Pat the chicken dry inside and out. Rub it all over with the lemon juice, garlic, paprika, salt and pepper.
- Heat the oven to 180 °C. Tear the bread into a bowl and pour over the milk.
- Soften the onion in the butter over a medium heat for about 5 minutes, until translucent.
- Squeeze the bread lightly and mix it with the onion, ham, olives, egg and parsley. Season with nutmeg, salt and pepper.
- Stuff the chicken loosely with the mixture. Close the opening with cocktail sticks or sew it up with kitchen string, and tie the legs together.
- Put the chicken in a large roasting tin with the potatoes around it. Drizzle the potatoes with the oil, season with salt and pour the water into the tin.
- Roast for about 1 hour 40 minutes, basting the chicken now and then and turning the potatoes once. It is done when golden and the juices run clear when you pierce the thigh.
- Leave the chicken to rest for 10 minutes, loosely covered with foil.
- Remove the sticks or string, spoon out the stuffing and carve the chicken. Serve with the stuffing and potatoes.
The cost is estimated from average prices in Argentina (INDEC, Precios al consumidor de una selección de alimentos, bebidas y otros artículos: Gran Buenos Aires (GBA; INDEC publishes no national average). Brought forward with the GBA food CPI (IPC, Alimentos y bebidas no alcohólicas)., 2026-08).
