Stuffing a chicken with rice (for righties)

[asterroc]

Lie chicken on its back, round (breast) side up, flat side down, so that the tail makes a little platform underneath the big hole where its butt used to be. Have this hole point towards your right (assuming you're a righty, reverse for lefties), with the body towards the left. Scoop the rice in a chinese soup spoon. Place the spoon atop the tail platform, holding the spoon in your right hand, leaning it slightly in towards the hole. With your left hand, take another spoon (any sort will do) and scoop the rice out of the spoon into the bird's anal cavity. Do this for a few spoonfuls, then use one of the spoons to shove/pack the rice in with your right hand while your left spoon stabilizes the bird by pushing back on the neck area. Repeat until you're out of rice or cavity. Extra rice can sometimes be shoved in the neck side. Some people sew up the cavity after.

Comments

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

er...is there any reason you can't just stuff handfuls of rice in? or is this for people too squeamish to touch raw flesh with their hands?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Have you tried that? Does it work? Maybe I'm just a doof, but when I stuffed a turkey last Thanksgiving, I found that the rice just squished out between my fingers and oozed back out the turkey butt. I wanted to find a better way to do it, and this seems to have worked. In addition, (1) currently I'm doing a mini-chicken, and my hand wouldn't fit inside, and (2) I also actually did it after cooking the chicken halfway so it would've been pretty hot for my hands.

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

hmm. i haven't actually tried that, but with turkey stuffing, i've always seen people just kind of shovel it in.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Hm. I never watched my relatives do it, and I don't watch TV (so I wouldn't've seen it on the Food Network). Maybe if I *had* seen someone do it I would've figured it out. However, it sill wouldn't solve my hot chicken problem.

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

i assume the chicken is already dead, right?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good point! You think I should include directions on how to vivisect it as well? Gotta make room for all that rice to fit, and the clucking would make a nice musical accompanyment to your dinner.

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm hoping to defy all principles of biological reproduction and wind up with a litter of rice-chicken eggs to hatch in an incubator... or to grow in a field. I'm not sure which.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately for your purposes, the rice-stuffed chicken went back into the oven. It makes a good omlette though. ;)

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

damn im craving chicken now, it sounds like yours is going to be delicious :)

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

It totally was! And a good size and price too. Once nice thing about being impatient is that I never overcook food, so it was really juicy. I had all the breast, drumsticks, and rice, and there's a bit of the carcass and wings leftover for a snack another time. ^_^

Ah, and all this the same day I got my Gabe photos back... :-P