Prep: 20 min
Cook Time: 1-1.5 hrs
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
- 1 whole chicken (fryer works well), about 3.5 lbs
- .5 Cup Dried dates, chopped roughly (pitted)
- .5 Cup Roasted peanuts
- 1 Cup Whole wheat rice
- 8 Cups Chicken stock
- 3 Cups water
- 1/2 Cup ginger, peeled and chopped into inch x inch cubes (remove after cooking)
- 2 Cloves of garlic, peeled and split in half (remove after cooking)
- 1/2 Cup Soy sauce, light
- Cilantro
Instructions:
- In a medium bowl, mix uncooked rice, dates, and peanuts together. Stuff washed chicken with mixture. Tie legs together with twine.
- In large pot add broth, water, ginger, and garlic. Bring to a boil.
- Add chicken breast down making sure broth and water mixture goes into the cavity where the rice mixture is. Bring back to a boil.
- Reduce to simmer, for 40 min. Flip and cook for at least 20 more min. At and of an hour check rice texture for doneness. Cook longer if needed.
- Remove chicken from broth, and set aside. Strain broth and reserve broth adding the soy sauce to it.
- Remove rice mixture and quarter chicken to plate serve with a garnish of cilantro and side of broth.
Enjoy cheers!
Random pic! Here’s a cute nursing fawn in our neighbors yard on Cinco De Mayo!
Very good – is that the next meal 😉
Hahahaha no definitely not, too cute. 😉
YUM! I’ve been cooking more chicken of late and on the lookout for new recipes. I just found a good one.
I, also, found a delivery man at my door as I returned from the market earlier today. He had a package containing a nifty salad dressing shaker for me. I love OXO products because they’re so well-designed — and this one is no different. Thank you so much, ZBD, for this fantastic prize. I foresee a salad — with feta 😉 — for dinner tonight!
This is def a good one, a must try! 🙂
I’m so glad your package arrived! You will get some good use out of it I’m sure! You’re right, with all that feta you just made I see some salads in your future! 🙂 Congrats again! Cheers!
This rice is exotic, combined with peanuts and dates and cooked inside a chicken! I like all of the flavors in this dish.
It’s a great flavor! Subtle but complex, I loved it!
Love the oriental nature of dish – That fawn is adorable!!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thanks! I really enjoyed this! I actually just saw a fawn in our yard just now!!!
Oh my, that baby is too cute! I am intrigued by the ingredients of this dish 🙂
🙂 Such a cutie!!!
Ginger, dates and peanuts! Oh my! This is a great recipe, Jen. You are so creative! And the nursing fawn…wow! Debra
Thanks Debra! It was a winner dish! Something so delicate about the flavors, I loved it! These fawns are everywhere out here! 🙂
Sounds and looks delicious.
🙂 Mandy
Thanks Mandy! It was really wonderful! 🙂
Great catch with the fawn! Haven’t seen any up here yet…
That is a yummy sounding chicken!
Such a cute sight! They are everywhere out here! The chicken was superb!
Wow, look at that. I was quite content with the great recipe and food photos and then a bonus!
Lovely looking chicken. You should not be tempting us with the deer.
Best,
Conor