Now comes the wedding chicken
With a chicken for marriage proposal? What is that hocus-pocus? On the other hand, many men love to be cooked, always with the objection: "Nowhere does it taste as good as with nuts." ? Pff, let's see that first.
In 1982, the glamor editor Kathy Suder cooked her sweetheart with the said chicken dish, shortly afterwards she got an application. What a coincidence, it also worked with three other colleagues. That's why the glamor magazine published the recipe. There followed 70 other marriage proposals.
Let's face it, get on the carpet. Anyone who believes in a meaningful context also thinks that you get pregnant from kissing. There are times when suddenly everyone seems to marry. This is usually only in our head. Who wants to try it anyway, swing the wooden spoon:
So what's the secret of the Engagement Chicken?
Nothing but lemons and a few herbs:
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken, 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice, 3 lemons (one sliced as a deco), 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt, 1/2 teaspoon fresh pepper, herbs for garnish (4 rosemary sprigs, 4 sage twigs, 8 Thyme branches and a bunch of parsley leaves)
Preparation:
Place the grate in the upper third of the oven and heat it to 200 degrees Celsius. Free the chicken from all offal and rinse thoroughly with cold water. Let it drain in a sieve.
Dab the chicken with kitchen roll, place it with the breast down in a medium sized pan (must fit on the grate) and sprinkle it with the lemon juice inside and out. Season it with salt and pepper.
Stitch with a fork in two of the lemons holes and put them deep in the cavity? if a lemon sticks out of the opening for space reasons, that's OK.
Tip: If the lemons are very hard, roll them over the worktop with your palm by hand before piercing.
Put the chicken in the oven and reduce the temperature to 180 degrees Celsius. Let it cook uncovered for 15 minutes.
Take the pan out of the oven, turn the chicken over (chest up) and use a meat thermometer (best in the thigh). Wait for about an hour until the meat thermometer shows about 80 degrees Celsius, and the meat juice is clear when you pikst in the thigh.
Let cool for 10 minutes, then disassemble the roast.
Now that secret: Pour the cut meat with the lemon sauce from the pan? THAT is the 'marry me juice'. Garnish the meat with the fresh herbs and lemon slices.
An engagement with lemon juice. Well, sour makes fun and that's always good, especially in marriage.
The Center for Health has 10 other reasons why we should drink lemon water on a daily basis? and if they say that ... Juhu, every day a 'Engagement Chicken' day.
By the way, lemon water helps against diarrhea and constipation, they say. Not bad for the relationship.
So:
If life gives you lemons, make Engagement Chicken out of it
? whatever that is good for.
