Coronation Chicken

Coronation Chicken

Serves 8

Ingredients :



1

⁄2 lemon

2.3kg/5lb chicken

1 onion, quartered

1 carrot, quartered

8 black peppercorns, crushed

1 teaspoon salt

For the sauce

1 little onion, chopped

15g/1

⁄2oz butter

1 tablespoon curry paste

1 tablespoon tomato purée

125ml/4fl oz wine

1 bay leaf

juice of 1

⁄2 lemon

2–3 teaspoons apricot jam

300ml/10fl oz mayo

125ml/4fl oz double or whipping

cream, whipped

salt and freshly ground

black pepper

watercress, to garnish


• place the lemon within the cavity of the chicken, then place the chicken during a

a saucepan that it simply fits. Add the onion, carrot, peppercorns and salt to

the pan.

• Add decent water to return a simple fraction of the high the chicken, bring

to the boil, then cowl and cook gently for concerning eleven

⁄2 hours till the

chicken juices run clear.

• Transfer the chicken to an oversized bowl, pour the preparation liquid over it and

leave to cool down. 

• to create the sauce, take a pan and sweat the onion within the butter

until soft. Add the curry paste, tomato purée, wine, herb and lemon

juice, then cook for ten minutes. Add the jam, then push the mixture

through a sieve and leave to cool down.

• Beat the mixture into the mayo. Fold within the cream, then season

with salt and pepper. Stir within the chicken items till equally coated. Chill

until able to serve, fancy with touch watercress.