Ballotine of Chicken

Name: Ballotine of Chicken
Yield: Serves Four to Six
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon rubbed dried sage or 2 teaspoons fresh sage; 1 tablespoon pistachio nuts; 25 g/1 oz butter; 100 g/4 oz cooked ham, finely diced; salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 (1.75-kg/4-lb) roasting chicken; 15 g/½ oz butter; 175 g/6 oz minced veal; 175 g/6 oz minced belly of pork; 1 onion, finely chopped; 75 g/3 oz chicken livers; 1 clove garlic, chopped; 1 teaspoon rubbed dried sage or 2 teaspoons fresh sage

Preparation info

Serves
Four to Six

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

1 (1.75-kg/4-lb) roasting chicken
15 g/

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Follow the procedure for boning the chicken described in the previous recipe and fill it with the following stuffing:

Melt the butter in a frying pan and in it soften the chopped onion and garlic. Add the chicken livers with all discoloured parts removed and turn up the heat to fry fairly fast until lightly browned. Mash the livers with a fork. Now mix all the stuffing ingredients toget