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Poulet Rôti à la Normande Recipe
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Ingredients
Herb and giblet stuffing
- The chicken gizzard peeled and minced
- 1 Tb butter
- tsp ⅛oil
- A small skillet
- The chicken heart chopped
- 1 to 4 chopped chicken livers
- 1 Tb minced shallots or green onions
- cup ⅔coarse crumbs from fresh homemade type of bread
- 4 Tb cream cheese
- 2 Tb softened butter
- 3 Tb minced parsley
- tsp ⅛tarragon or thyme
- tsp ⅛salt
- Pinch of pepper
- A 3-lb. ready-to-cook roasting or frying chicken
- tsp ¼salt
- 1 Tb butter
Roasting the chicken
Ingredients
Herb and giblet stuffing
Roasting the chicken
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Instructions
Herb and giblet stuffing
- Sauté the gizzard in hot butter and oil for 2 minutes. Then stir in the heart, liver, and shallots or onions. Sauté for 2 minutes more, or until the liver has stiffened but is still rosy inside. Scrape into a mixing bowl.
- Blend in the rest of the ingredients and taste carefully for seasoning. Let the stuffing cool.
- Sprinkle salt inside the chicken, and loosely fill with the stuffing. Sew or skewer the vent. Truss and dry the chicken, and rub its skin with butter.
Roasting the chicken
- Roast it either in the oven, or on a spit. About 10 minutes before the end of the estimated roasting time, remove all but 1 spoonful of fat from the roasting pan. Start basting with 2 or 3 tablespoons of cream every 3 to 4 minutes until the chicken is done. The cream will probably look curdled in the pan, but this will be corrected later.
- Remove the chicken to a hot platter and sprinkle with salt.
The sauce
- Add the stock or bouillon to the cream in the roasting pan and boil rapidly for 2 to 3 minutes, scraping up coagulated chicken roasting juices.
- Just before serving, remove from heat and stir in additional cream by spoonfuls to smooth out the sauce. Correct seasoning, and add drops of lemon juice to taste.
- Spoon a bit of sauce over the chicken and send the rest to the table in a warmed sauceboat.
Recipe Notes
VEGETABLE SUGGESTIONS:
Serve sautéed mushrooms and sautéed potatoes, or green peas and braised onions.
WINE SUGGESTIONS:
A chilled white Burgundy or white Graves, or a red Bordeaux-Médoc would be appropriate.