Thai Chicken
Spice Up Your Sunday Roast with a Thai twist! This tasty dish features a juicy, corn-fed chicken stuffed with aromatic herbs, and paired with a flavour packed Thai salsa. Serve with broccolini!
Ingredients
- 1 large corn-fed chicken
- A few chillies
- 1 lemongrass
- 300ml water
For stuffing
- 200g minced chicken
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 lemongrass
- Small bunch Thai basil
- Small bunch coriander
For the Thai Salsa
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 green chilli
- 1 shallot, diced
- 1 small bunch coriander
- 1 small bunch mint
- 1 small bunch Thai basil
- 50g palm sugar
- 15ml fish sauce
- 25ml soy sauce
- 100ml olive oil
To serve
- 300g broccolini
Method
- Pre heat the oven to 200°C or BBQ until hot.
- Mix all the ingredients for the stuffing together and then carefully place evenly under the skin of the chicken.
- Pop the chicken on to an oven proof dish along with the chilli, lemongrass and water. Season and roast for 1 hour, until fully cooked. Cut into portions.
- Chop all of the ingredients together for the salsa and set aside.
- BBQ the broccolini until charred, or place into a hot oven until cooked.
- Scatter the broccolini over a platter, top with the chicken and spoon over the Thai salsa.
Ingredients
- 1 large corn-fed chicken
- A few chillies
- 1 lemongrass
- 300ml water
For stuffing
- 200g minced chicken
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 lemongrass
- Small bunch Thai basil
- Small bunch coriander
For the Thai Salsa
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 green chilli
- 1 shallot, diced
- 1 small bunch coriander
- 1 small bunch mint
- 1 small bunch Thai basil
- 50g palm sugar
- 15ml fish sauce
- 25ml soy sauce
- 100ml olive oil
To serve
- 300g broccolini
Method
- Pre heat the oven to 200°C or BBQ until hot.
- Mix all the ingredients for the stuffing together and then carefully place evenly under the skin of the chicken.
- Pop the chicken on to an oven proof dish along with the chilli, lemongrass and water. Season and roast for 1 hour, until fully cooked. Cut into portions.
- Chop all of the ingredients together for the salsa and set aside.
- BBQ the broccolini until charred, or place into a hot oven until cooked.
- Scatter the broccolini over a platter, top with the chicken and spoon over the Thai salsa.
