Name: Chicken with braised celery & cider
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: small knob of butter; 1 chicken weighing about 2kg/4lb 8oz; 4 rashers smoked streaky bacon chopped; 1 onion finely chopped; 2 carrots diced; sprig thyme; 2 celery hearts, quartered; 150ml dry cider (we used Merrydown); 300ml chicken stock

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Chicken with braised celery & cider

Chicken with braised celery & cider

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 40 mins

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The perfect dish for warming those chilly nights around the dining table.

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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small knob of butter
1 chicken

weighing about 2kg/4lb 8oz
4 rashers smoked streaky bacon

chopped
1 onion

finely chopped
2 carrots

diced
sprig thyme
2 celery

hearts, quartered
150ml dry cider

(we used Merrydown)
300ml chicken stock

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal679
fat44g
saturates14g
carbs7g
sugars6g
fibre2g
protein62g
salt1.37g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Heat the butter in a large casserole dish and brown the chicken slowly on all sides; this should take a good 10-15 mins. (Be patient, it will pay off later.) Take the chicken out of the dish, throw in the bacon and cook for 3-4 mins until starting to crisp, then add the onion, carrots and thyme and continue to cook for 4-5 mins until the vegetables soften. Stir the celery into the dish, then nestle the chicken amongst the veg, breast side down. Pour over the cider and stock, bring to a simmer, then roast the chicken uncovered for 1 hr.
step 2

Turn the chicken the right way up and give it 30 mins more, by which point the legs should be coming away. Carefully lift the chicken from the dish. Check the seasoning of the vegetables and serve with the chicken.

RECIPE TIPS

COOK THE CHICKEN UPSIDE DOWN

Cooking the chicken upside down first keeps the breast succulent.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2006

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