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- Lemon-Ginger Chicken
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- 1 large frying chicken or small roasting chicken (2.5 - 3 kg)
- 2 lemons
- 2 tbsp grated ginger
- 4 slices ginger
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup amber coloured beer or ale
- lots of freshly ground black pepper
- handful celery leaves
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- Rinse the chicken and pat it dry. Place the chicken in a roasting pan.
- Squeeze the juice of one lemon over the chicken. Tip the chicken up on
- its rear end and squeeze the juice of half a lemon into the cavity.
- Lay the chicken down again. Place the celery leaves and the slices
- of ginger in the cavity. Rub the grated ginger all over the chicken's
- skin. Melt the butter and pour it over the chicken.
- Squeeze the juice of the last half of the lemon over the chicken. Cut
- up the lemon peel so you have eight pieces (four from each lemon). Place
- four pieces in the cavity. Place one piece under each chicken elbow
- and one piece between each leg and the chicken body. Place the chicken
- in a 350F oven and bake 20 minutes. Pour the soy sauce and the sherry
- over the chicken and bake another 20 minutes. Now baste the chicken with
- the pan juices and bake another 20 minutes. Baste again. Bake 20 more
- minutes (a total of 80 minutes, so far). The chicken is probably done now,
- but if not, bake it a little longer until it is.
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- If I felt like it, I might make a suace from the pan juices and 1 cup
- beer, cooked down 50%. Or maybe not. I sort of like to save the pan juices
- for the stock.
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