Portions: 1-4
Ingredients
- 1 Small Chicken
- Onions
- Mixed Herbs
- Mashed Potato
- Cabbage
- Stuffing
- Gravy Granules
- Asparagus
Instructions
- Cut (not chop) up some onions and place in the bottom of the slow cooker - I cut my onions in to quarters
- Put the chicken in the slow cooker - if like me and you only have a small slow cooker and even a small chicken wont quite fit then cut off its legs - Legless Chicken!!
- Set the slow cooker to cook the chicken for 8 hours on LOW heat
- When the chicken is either nearly ready (or it has finished the 8 hour timer and is now on the keep warm setting) start to prepare the rest of the meal
- Make some mashed potatoes, leave in the saucepan and set aside for use later
- Take the chicken of of the slow cooker and carefully remove the breasts and try to keep the skin on them.
- 1/2 a chicken breast per person should be enough so put the skin on chicken breast(s) on a baking tray and cook in the oven alongside the stuffing (stuffing normally takes around 20 minutes to cook which is enough time to crisp up the skin)
- Remove the chicken wings and any other chicken meat from the carcass and set aside for either a late night snack or (depending on how much is leftover) use to make a curry the next day!
- Fry some thinly sliced cabbage in some butter until it's nice and soft
- Put the saucepan with the mashed potato in it back on the heat and give it a stir until it's piping hot and then add the soft cabbage and stir it in
- Remove the colcannon (mash with cabbage) from the heat
- Add some butter and garlic to a frying pan and cook the Asparagus
- To make the gravy sieve the onion infused chicken juices from the slow cooker in to a small saucepan
- Although you can use some cornflour to thicken the gravy I much prefer to use gravy granules as it not only thickens the gravy but adds an extra level of flavour
- When you're ready to serve it up, put a couple of ready made frozen Yorkshire Puddings in the oven
- Begin to serve it up and don't forget the Yorkies!!
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