Tender chicken from the watermelon
Time
Preparation time: 30 min.
Cooking or baking time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total preparation time: 2 hours
By chance, I found this extraordinary preparation for a fruity tender chicken on the internet and since a melon has been bouncing around on my worktop for 2 days and I was fascinated by the recipe, I immediately tried it:
You have no pot, no desire to rinse after cooking and want a juicy roast or a chicken with a lot of sauce: buy a watermelon; o))
Joking aside: I'm excited about this buttery chicken, which could of course also be prepared in a roasting tube or ... or ... or ... but here's the melon version.
ingredients
- 1 medium sized watermelon
- 1 whole fresh chicken
- 1 lemon
For the marinade and later sauce:
- 2-3 tablespoons soy sauce and / or Ketjap Manis (sweet thick Asian sauce)
- The marinade can be mixed to taste. To soy sauce also honey fits very well or a hot pepper sauce
- 2 teaspoons of 5-spice powder or Chinese spice or - as in my case - a self-mixed curry spice consisting of fennel, curry, garlic, ginger, coriander, turmeric, chilli and mustard seeds
preparation
Steps 1-4:
1. The skin is removed from the chicken (if you like, you can bake it later in the oven) and the visible fat, tendons and the silver skin is removed (Parieren).
2. Coat the chicken with the marinade well and let rest for a while. Peel the lemon (you can of course use biocitrons with shell, but they should then be stabbed several times) and put in the chicken.
3. Cut off a small slice from the melon at one end for stability, cut off a lid above.
4. Using a large spoon, completely hollow out the watermelon, put the pulp aside and place the marinated chicken in the hollowed out melon, place the lid on top.
Steps 5-8:
5. Place in a casserole dish and cook at 200 degrees for about 1 hour plus (1.5 hours).
6. Remove from the oven (careful: hot!) And remove the lemon.
7. Pierce a hole in the side of the melon and catch the expiring gravy.
8. Scrape remaining stewed / grilled flesh of melon and lid and mix with the gravy with a hand blender.
On the table is a deliciously juicy buttery chicken with fruity taste and spicy light sauce.
I did not think it would taste so good and my fears of the melon bursting and destroying my oven (microwave oven here) also dissolved in the air. In addition, the preparation was really fun.
Who wants to try it: On the attached of the 10 photos, I tried to represent the individual steps as good as possible.
