How To Stuff And Truss A Chicken

How To Stuff And Truss A Chicken

This is a quick recipe for a flavourful aromatic stuffing. It also gives instructions for how to tie the chicken so that the stuffing stays inside and flavours the bird. Learn the complex task to stuff and truss a chicken.

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Step 1:

You will need

• 1 whole chicken , cleaned and dried both on inside and outside
• for the stuffing:
• 1 garlic bulb , cut in half
• 1 lemon , quartered
• ½ onion , quartered
• a few sprigs of thyme
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 tbsp coarse salt
• some kitchen twine
• a pair of scissors
• 1 bowl
• 1 spoon

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Step 2:

Make the stuffing

Place the garlic, lemon, onion, thyme, cinnamon stick and the salt into a large bowl. Mix together briefly with a spoon. Crush it all together with your hands, to combine and infuse all the essential oils. This also releases all the delicious aromas.

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Step 3:

Stuff the chicken

Open up the central cavity of the bird and fill it with the stuffing. Never stuff any bird in advance since this might increase the risk of food poisoning. However, you can make the stuffing ahead of time, refrigerate it, and then add it to the bird just before cooking!

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Step 4:

Truss the chicken

Put the twine under the base of its neck, around the wings and the legs. Cross the twine under the legs, cross both legs, and loop the twine around them, first from right side, then the left side, twice.
Tighten it, bring the twine back to the top, make a double knot, make another double knot and trim off the string. Your chicken is now ready to be cooked.