Chicken Baked in Hay with Chicken Fat Rice

Name: Chicken Baked in Hay with Chicken Fat Rice
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons finely chopped green garlic (or 1 garlic clove, minced); 200 g (7 oz/1 scant cup) bomba rice (or substitute arborio); 3 tablespoons chicken fat; 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) alcoholic cider (ideally Spanish or French); 1 fresh bay leaf; 500 ml (17 fl oz/2 cups) chicken stock; 2 fresh bay leaves; five 5 cm (2 inch) pieces of green garlic (or substitute 5 whole garlic cloves); 5 wild leek bulbs; 6–8 generous sprigs of thyme, parsley and sage; chicken fat or butter to coat; 1.5 kg (3 lb 5 oz) organic free-range chicken, at room temperature; 15 g (½ oz) salt

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bistronomy

By Katrina Meynink

Published 2014

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Ingredients

1.5 kg (3 lb 5 oz) organic free-range chicken, at room temperature
chicken f

Europe
France
Main course
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 150°C (300°F/Gas 2). Rub the chicken generously in chicken fat or butter and season with salt, including the cavity. Fill the cavity with the fresh herbs and bay leaves and truss the chicken with kitchen string. Spread the garlic and leek bulbs in the base of a larg