Spicy Roast Chicken

Name: Spicy Roast Chicken
Ingredients: 2 tbsp crushed ginger and garlic; 2 tbsp lime juice (freshly squeezed; keep the shells – you will need them); A whole skinned chicken; Chilli flakes to taste; 1 tbsp pomegranate paste (available from Arab shops); 2 whole peeled onions; Salt and a little black pepper; ½ tsp each garam masala and ground cumin

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Settler's Cookbook

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

A whole skinned chicken
Chilli flakes to taste
2 tbsp lime juice (freshly squeezed; keep the shells – you will need them)

Main course
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

The day before, wipe the chicken with kitchen paper.
Stuff the cavity with the lime shells and onions.
Mix all the other ingredients to make a paste.
Slash the fleshy parts of the bird and smear with this paste, really pressing hard and working it in with your hands.
Cover with foil and leave overnight in the fridge.
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