This dish is my Mom’s favorite recipe. When I was little she sent me picking herbs in our garden, I was so proud with my Petite Paniere full of herbs.

Serves 6

Ingredients:

For the chicken:

• 1 whole chicken (1kg 200)
• Herbes de Provence
• 1 yellow onion
• 3 garlic cloves
• 2 bay leaves
• Pinch of salt
• Black pepper
• 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary
• Olive oil

For the stuffing:

• 1 yellow onion
• 250g of  bread (without crust)
• A small bunch of parsley
• Salt
• Black pepper
• 1 egg
• 100ml of milk

Procedure:

1. Wash and rinse the chicken. Rub the chicken with salt (inside and outside) and “herbes de provence”. Set aside the chicken into a plate.
2. In a bowl add the bread, the chopped parsley, the chopped onion, the salt, the black pepper, 1 egg and finally the milk.
3. Mix all the ingredients with your hands, and stuff this inside your chicken. Close by sewing or with skewers (bamboo). I used 3 skewers.
4. In an oven pot add 3 tablespoons of olive oil, the chopped onion, the chopped garlic, the bay leaves, the black pepper, the sprigs of fresh rosemary and of course the “herbes de Provence”. Cook and stir with a wood spoon for 5 minutes until the onions become golden and let the aroma of herbs release their fragrance.
5. Add your chicken and cook for 5 more minutes.
6. Pour 300 ml of water and cook for 1 hour on medium heat. Don’t forget from time to time to drizzle your chicken with the sauce.
7. Preheat your oven to 180C.
8. Remove your oven pot from the stove and know put it into the oven and cook for another 45 minutes.
9. When the skin is gold and  and the sauce thick remove it and allow to cool for a few minutes before serving.

For the potatoes:

• 1 kg of babies potatoes
  

1. Wash the babies potatoes with a small brush, keep the skin.
2. Boil a cooking pot and pour the babies potatoes into the steamer.
3. Cook for 30 minutes, remove from the steamer when the potatoes are soft.

Serve your roasted stuffed chicken on a plate add a few potatoes and pour the sauce on the top.The smell of the herbs is divine, the chicken soft and the stuffing very tender.

Bon Appetit.

“Food tastes better when you eat it with your family”.