Chicken Stuffed With Mashed Turnips Recipes

CHICKEN STUFFED WITH MASHED TURNIPS

Steps:

• Place the turnips and potato in a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce to a simmer and cook until the vegetables are tender, about 12 minutes. Drain. Puree in a food processor. Stir in the butter, the salt and pepper to taste.
• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Stuff the cavity of the chicken with the mashed turnip mixture. Use a trussing needle and twine to sew the cavity closed. Place in a roasting pan. Roast until the juices run clear when pricked in the thickest part of the leg, about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Let stand for 10 minutes before carving. Carve and serve with the mashed turnip stuffing.

PATTY'S MASHED TURNIPS

Steps:

• Peel, wash, and quarter turnips.
• Boil 35-45 minutes or until tender. Strain and rinse cooked turnips.
• Place in large mixing bowl and use fork to break up turnips into smaller bits. Add milk and butter. Blend to desired consistency. Add salt and pepper to taste.

STUFFED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Lightly oil grill and preheat to medium high.
• In a small skillet, heat vegetable oil. Saute onion and celery until tender. Stir in hot sauce and mustard and mix all together. Remove from heat.
• Cut pockets into chicken breasts and stuff with onion mixture. Saute chicken in skillet 2 to 3 minutes each side, until lightly browned. Remove from skillet and grill over medium high heat for 10 to 15 minutes on each side, or until juices run clear. Serve with remainder of onion mixture as a sauce/topping.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH TURNIPS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450 degrees. Place a nonstick roasting pan on a rack set low in oven. Season chicken with salt and pepper, and rub it with about a third of the butter or oil.
• When oven is hot, add another third of the butter or oil to pan. Place chicken in hot pan, breast up; roast 15 minutes, or until top begins to brown. Remove from oven, and scatter turnips around it; dot them with remaining butter, or drizzle with remaining oil. Tilt pan so juices run out of chicken.
• Roast 15 minutes longer, and then baste chicken with pan juices. Continue to roast (lower heat to 350 if bird is becoming too brown) until an instant-read thermometer inserted in meaty part of thigh registers 155 degrees, 15 to 30 minutes more. Remove bird from pan, and raise heat to 500 degrees. Return turnips to oven in pan.
• Let chicken rest while turnips brown, about 5 minutes. Carve chicken, and serve with turnips and pan juices.

HERBY DRESSED TURNIPS & ROAST CHICKEN

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Rub the chicken all over with oil and season with salt and pepper. Place in a roasting tin and roast for 1 hr. Scatter the garlic around the chicken and toss in the juices. Return the chicken to the oven for 30 mins more until it is cooked and garlic is soft.
• Place the chicken on a board to rest. Squeeze all the garlic cloves out of their skins and pound to a paste with a mortar and pestle. Mix with the 5 tbsp oil and the vinegar, then set aside. Make the gravy by adding the white wine to the roasting tin and bubbling down. Add the chicken stock, then pass the gravy through a strainer into a gravy boat.
• Boil the turnips in salted water for 6 mins until just cooked with a slight crunch. Toss them through the garlicky dressing with the parsley and capers, seasoning to taste. Joint the chicken, scatter with watercress, and serve with the herby turnips on the side.