Swedish Roast Chicken With Spiced Apple Rice Recipes

Steps:

• In a large zip-top bag, mix together the flour, paprika, garlic powder and some salt and pepper. Add the chicken and toss to coat completely.
• In a large saucepan over medium heat, heat the canola oil. Add the chicken and brown on all sides, 3 to 4 minutes per side. While the chicken is cooking, to a slow cooker add the tomatoes, peppers and onions. Top with the chicken thighs.
• In same skillet used to brown the chicken, add the tomato paste and cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add the chicken broth and bring to a simmer, stirring to scrape any browned bits off the bottom of the pan. Pour over top of the chicken in the slow cooker. Cook on low for 4 hours, or until the chicken is extremely tender.
• In a medium pot, combine 2 cups water, the rice, red pepper flakes, lemon zest, juice of half the lemon and a pinch of salt. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer and cook, covered, until the rice is tender and has absorbed all the liquid.
• To serve, spoon the rice onto a deep-sided platter and ladle the Spanish chicken and vegetables over top. Garnish with the olives and squeeze over the remaining lemon juice. Reserve 2 chicken thighs and 1 cup of the vegetables for Round 2 Recipe - Pita Pile on with Spicy Yogurt Sauce.

Steps:

• Place the chicken breast-side up in a 9-by-13-inch pan. Season inside and out with 2 1/2 teaspoons salt and the Baharat. Refrigerate, uncovered, for at least 1 hour and up to overnight; this will help the skin get crispy!
• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
• Stuff the cavity of the chicken with the onion, 4 sprigs of thyme and 2 sprigs of rosemary. Scatter the apples and remaining sprigs of thyme and rosemary around the chicken, sprinkle with the sugar and a pinch of salt and drizzle with the olive oil. Roast the chicken until the juices run clear and the internal temperature reaches 160 degrees F, about 1 hour. Let the chicken sit for 10 minutes.
• Discard the herb sprigs. Add a splash of vinegar to the apples and toss to coat. Carve the chicken and serve with the apples on the side.
• In a dry skillet over medium heat, toast the coriander seeds, black pepper seeds, cumin seeds, cloves and cardamom seeds, stirring often, until fragrant, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer to a spice grinder and blend. Stir in the paprika, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, mix together the honey, maple syrup, curry powder, nutmeg, paprika, cayenne, and black peppercorns. Rub some of this mixture all over the chicken, including under the skin, and inside the cavity. Stuff the shallots, onions, and pieces of one apple into the chicken's cavity. Coat the remaining apples with the spice mixture, and place in a roasting pan. Place the chicken in the pan, and pour brown rice around the outside. Pour the water over the rice, making sure that all of the rice is down in the water.
• Bake uncovered for about 5 hours. The chicken juices should run clear, and rice should be tender.

Steps:

• In a large skillet, cook chicken in 1 tablespoon butter until juices run clear; remove and keep warm. Set seasoning packet from rice mix aside. In the same skillet, saute rice mix in remaining butter for 5 minutes or until golden brown., Add the water, broth, apple juice, apple, mushrooms, onion, cranberries and contents of rice seasoning packet; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until rice is tender, stirring occasionally. Return chicken to the pan; heat through.

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350°F.
• Blanch the sweet potato in boiling water for two minutes, then drain, rinse in cold water and drain again.
• In a medium bowl, combine sweet potato, onion, apples, shallots, garlic, thyme and mint.
• Combine the 2 tablespoons of water and the olive oil and add to the vegetable mixture, tossing to coat.
• With a mortar and pestle (or with the back of a heavy skillet against a cutting board) lightly crush the cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, cloves, black and white peppercorns (you can use all black if that's what you have) with the teaspoon of kosher salt.
• Add half the spice mixture to the vegetables and reserve the rest.
• Rinse the chicken inside and out and pat dry with paper towels.
• Remove all the excess fat.
• Lightly stuff the bird's cavity with about half the vegetable mixture and tie the bird's legs together with kitchen string.
• Place the chicken on a rack in a roasting pan and rub it all over with the reserved spice mixture.
• Scatter the remaining vegetable mixture around the chicken.
• Roast for about one hour.
• Remove the vegetables that are loose in the pan and set aside in a bowl.
• Continue roasting for another 30 minutes or until your meat thermometer, inserted in the thigh, reaches 160°F.
• During this time, if the pan becomes too dry, add water a few tablespoons at a time.
• Transfer chicken to a board, remove stuffing and add it to the other vegetables, and cover the chicken loosely with foil.
• Keep the vegetables warm.
• Place the roasting pan over heat on the stove top and add the water and stock or white wine.
• Bring liquid to a boil, stirring and scraping to deglaze the pan.
• Pour the liquid into a measuring cup, degreasing as best you can.
• Pour about 1/2 of a cup of the liquid into a sauceboat and keep warm.
• Add, if necessary, water to the remaining de-glazing liquid so that you have one cup.
• Combine the rice, one cup of water, one cup of deglazing liquid and the salt in a medium saucepan.
• Bring to a boil over high heat.
• As soon as the rice boils, reduce the heat to low, cover and cook the rice till done, about 18 minutes.
• Remove from heat and fold rice together with 1 and 1/2 tablespoons of the yogurt and the reserved vegetables.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Combine the remaining yogurt with the pan juices in the sauce boat.
• Carve the chicken and serve with rice, passing the sauceboat for those who need a little extra liquid.

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 220C/200C fan/ gas 6. Pour 800ml just-boiled water into a heatproof jug, crumble in the stock cube and stir in along with half the curry paste and the butter or oil. Pour the mixture into a large baking dish or roasting tin (ours was 25 x 35cm and 5cm deep), and tip in the rice and cinnamon stick. Season and stir well.
• Cut a few deep slashes into each chicken thigh, then rub all over with the remaining curry paste and some seasoning. Arrange on top of the rice mixture, then cover the dish or tin with foil and bake for 30 mins.
• Meanwhile, heat a drizzle of oil in a frying pan over a medium heat, and fry the onion for 10-15 mins, or until soft and caramelised.
• Uncover the chicken and rice. The rice should still be wet, but if not, top up with 50-100ml more water. Scatter over the almonds and bake, uncovered, for 10-15 mins more until the chicken is browned, all the liquid has been absorbed and the rice is cooked through and crisp at the edges. Meanwhile, cook the green beans in boiling water for 2-3 mins, then drain. Scatter the coriander and fried onions over the chicken and rice, spoon a few dollops of chutney over the dish, and serve with the green beans.

Steps:

• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken and cook, 2 minutes per side. Remove and set aside.
• Heat remaining butter over medium heat in the same skillet. Saute rice from rice mix in the hot butter until golden brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Stir in water, apple juice, apple, onion, raisins, and seasoning packet from rice mix slowly. Bring to a boil. Place chicken over rice. Reduce heat to low, cover, and let simmer until chicken breasts are no longer pink in the centers and rice is tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• GLAZE:
• In a 1-1/2- to 2-quart saucepan stir together vinegar and jelly.
• Heat; stir over medium heat.
• Bring to boiling.
• Boil glaze gently, uncovered, for 20 minutes until syrupy and reduced to about 1 cup, stirring frequently.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in apple pie spice.
• Divide glaze in half; set aside. (Glaze will thicken as it stands; stir before brushing over chicken and apples.)
• CHICKEN:.
• Preheat oven to 325°F
• Skewer neck skin of chicken to back; tie legs to tail.
• Twist wing tips under back.
• Place chicken, breast side up, on a rack in roasting pan.
• Sprinkle with salt.
• Roast, uncovered, 1-1/4 hours.
• Cut string.
• Place apples around chicken.
• RICE:.
• Meanwhile, in 1-qt. casserole combine rice and seasoning mix, water, and butter; cover. Set aside.
• Brush chicken and apples with some of one portion of glaze.
• Sprinkle with pepper.
• Roast chicken and rice together in oven for 1 to 1-1/4 hours more or until instant-read thermometer registers 180F when inserted into thickest part of the thigh and juices run clear, brushing with remainder of the glaze portion twice.
• Stir green onion into rice.
• Transfer rice to platter; top with chicken and apples.
• Cover with foil.
• SAUCE:
• Skim fat from juices in roasting pan; discard.
• Pour remaining glaze portion into the roasting pan.
• Using wooden spoon, scrape up any brown bits stuck to bottom of pan (place pan on stove top over medium heat, if necessary, to heat glaze).
• Strain; season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Transfer to gravy boat.
• Garnish with sage. Makes 6 servings.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°. In a small bowl, mix the first 5 ingredients. In a small saucepan, melt butter; stir in lemon juice, mustard, paprika and garlic salt. Keep warm., Sprinkle half the thyme mixture inside chicken; if desired, place quartered lemon inside chicken. Place chicken on a rack in a shallow roasting pan, breast side up. Tuck wings under chicken; tie drumsticks together., Brush outside of chicken with 1/2 cup butter mixture; sprinkle with remaining thyme mixture. Roast 1 hour, basting every 15 minutes with remaining butter mixture. (Cover loosely with foil if chicken browns too quickly.), Roast until a thermometer inserted in thickest part of thigh reads 170°-175°, 30-60 minutes longer. Remove chicken from oven; tent with foil. Let stand 15 minutes before carving.