Five-spice Roast Chicken

Name: Five-spice Roast Chicken
Prep time: 1 h 50 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Jamaica
Ingredients: 4 cinnamon sticks; 6 star anise; 6 cardamom pods; 6 cloves; 6 allspice berries; 2 garlic cloves, chopped; 6 garlic cloves, peeled but left whole; 1 hot pepper, cut in two; juice of 1 lime; 1.6 kg/3 lb 5 oz chicken; 2 tbsp honey; 2 tbsp light soya sauce

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 50

Appears in

Eat Caribbean

By Virginia Burke

Published 2005

About

The longer the chicken is marinated, the more intense the flavour will be. This recipe is also delicious if you ‘spatchcock’ the chicken to be cooked on the barbecue. For a Sunday roast, I recommend surrounding the whole chicken with roasted potatoes and extra garlic in the roasting pan.

Ingredients

1.6 kg/3 lb 5 oz chicken
juice of 1

Americas
Jamaica
Main course
Caribbean

Method

Wash the chicken and pat dry with kitchen paper. Rub the lime juice over the chicken and set aside for 10 minutes.
Mix the soya sauce and honey together in a small bowl. Crush half the cinnamon sticks and star anise, all of the cardamom pods, cloves and allspice berries and two of the garlic cloves together with a mortar and pestle. Rub into the chicken. Cover