Meg’s Golden Roast Chicken with Wild Rice, Cranberry Stuffing & Festive Glaze

Golden Roast Chicken with Wild Rice, Cranberry Stuffing and Festive Glaze Recipe

Golden Roast Chicken with Wild Rice, Cranberry Stuffing and Festive Glaze Recipe

By: Meg Thompson

A lovely, comforting dish that combines a delicious nourishing stuffing and a tangy glaze to serve.


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Recipe


Ingredients

  • Festive glaze
  • 1 cup orange juice
  • ½ cup cranberry juice
  • ½ cup red wine
  • 2 tsp honey
  • Sprig thyme
  • Pinch sea salt
  • Stuffing
  • 1 small brown onion, finely diced
  • 1 tsp ghee
  • 1 tbsp finely diced garlic
  • 1 tbsp pine nuts
  • 2 tbsp dried cranberries
  • ½ tsp oregano
  • ½ tsp thyme
  • ½ tsp sea salt
  • 1 cup cooked wild rice
  • ¾ cup almond meal
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten

Method


  • Preheat oven to 200°C.
  • For glaze, place all ingredients in saucepan and simmer for 1 hour until reduced by 75 per cent. Strain through fine sieve. Set aside.
  • For stuffing, fry onion in ghee until soft. Set aside to cool.
  • Combine garlic, pine nuts, cranberries, oregano, thyme and salt in a medium bowl. Add rice, almond meal and onion and mix well before stirring egg through. Set aside.
  • Stuff chicken with prepared stuffing, then use baking string to tie legs together to hold stuffing in chicken. For more, see below ingredients and method.

  

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Meg Thompson

Meg Thompson

Meg Thompson is a practising naturopath, cook, mother, writer and passionate wholefood enthusiast based in Melbourne. Meg’s interest in health, food and the role of food as medicine has shaped her career and lifestyle. Following an early career in psychology and education, she completed studies in naturopathy, nutrition and herbal medicine and now runs a successful clinical practice. Meg works from a philosophy that food is much more than something to fill our bellies, but a source of nourishment, deliciousness, education, ritual and celebration, best shared with those we love.

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