Life All Travel Destinations Entertaining Food All Chefs Recipes Restaurants Wine Pairing Food News Wine All Wine 101 Wine News Wine Regions Wine Varietals Wineries Home > Selector Magazine > Food > Roast Chicken With Old Fashioned Bread Stuffing Recipe Food Roast Chicken With Old Fashioned Bread Stuffing Recipe Preparation time Cooking time Serves 4 Ingredients 1kg chicken Spray extra virgin olive oil Salt For the bread stuffing 150g day-old bread, crust on and broken into small pieces 60g finely chopped onion 1tbsp each of roughly chopped fresh parsley, rosemary and thyme 1tsp ground nutmeg Finely grated zest of one small orange 1 egg Method Wipe out the inside of the chicken, mix all the stuffing ingredients together, put inside the gut cavity and push firmly. (Do not over-fill as it will burst out during cooking.) Tie or skewer the legs around the opening to secure closure. Spray with oil. Put the chicken on its back onto a cooking rack then into a baking dish. Sprinkle with salt and cook at 180ºC for 50 minutes. Internal temperature of chicken must be at least 75ºC. Baste the chicken with the drippings, twice for maximum effect. Remove from the oven, rest for 5 minutes, cut into quarters and serve with vegetables or salad of your choice. Food Serves 4 Shop Dessert Wine You might also like Food Lyndey Milan's beef with Cabernet jus and herbed potato gratin Words by Lyndey Milan on 1 Jun 2017 Food Pancetta-wrapped chicken braised in perry with pear and walnut salad Food Chicken tajine with preserved lemon, almonds and olives Discover more Dessert recipes Food Dave Pynt And The Fires Of Creation Words by Nick Ryan on 7 Jan 2025 Food Chocolate soufflé with Shiraz syrup Food Madeleines with chocolate cherry sauce & candied orange praline