Chicken with Georgian rice (in oven)

Cooking time:

1 hour

Active time:

35 minutes

Complexity:

Average

Georgian chicken with rice, walnuts and pomegranate is a full-fledged festive hot with garnish. The bird is tasty, delicate and juicy, with a subtle aroma of spices. And rice due to the addition of fat melted from the chicken has a rich taste. And, which is especially nice, the main work for you will be done by the oven and stove.

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Рецепт «Курица с рисом по-грузински (в духовке)»

Recipe "Chicken with Georgian rice (in the oven)"

Ingredients, serves 8

chicken whole

1 pc.

pomegranate

1 pc.

walnuts

60-70 g

tkemali

1-2 tbsp. spoons

meat seasoning

0.5 tsp

ground coriander

0.5 tsp

dried rosemary

0.5 tsp

ground black pepper

0.5 tsp

salt

1 tsp or to taste

basmati rice

200 g

vegetable oil

2 tbsp. spoons

garlic

1 head

cilantro

to taste and to desire

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Mix in a small bowl the spices: meat seasoning, coriander, rosemary, ground black pepper and salt.

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Rinse the chicken carcass and dry with a paper towel.

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Cut the head of garlic in half and put inside the chicken. Also add 1 teaspoon of the spice mixture.

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Cut off and discard the top of the goose. And then rub the chicken with the remaining spices on all sides.

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Put to cook rice. To do this, boil water in a large saucepan, salting at the rate of 0.5 tsp of salt per 1 liters of water. Put 200g dry rice in boiling water and cook for 20 minutes. Rinse the rice after cooking.

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Grease a large baking dish with 1 tbsp. with a spoonful of vegetable oil, put the chicken breast down. Pour the remaining oil on the bird and put in the oven, heated to 180 ℃, for 30-35 minutes.

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While the chicken is baking and the rice is cooking, wash and peel the pomegranate.

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You will need 100-150 g of grains.

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Remove the chicken from the oven and carefully transfer to a platter. Put the finished washed rice in the fat released from the chicken.

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On top of the rice, put the chicken breast up (before that, we remind you, we put the bird breast down). Pour the tkemali sauce over the bird and spread it over the top of the carcass.

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Put walnuts on the rice around the chicken, and then pomegranate grains. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 ℃ for about 15 minutes until the chicken is cooked.