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

[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