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Rice and Meatball Stuffing

Rice fried with spices over fried onion, cooked in a little water until it reduces, and mixed with small meatballs; a whole chicken is stuffed with it and sewn shut.

⏱ 23 min🧩 3 parts

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Fried onion

  1. 1
    Heat the olive oil in a wide pan over medium heat.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
  2. 2
    Add the onion and fry 5–8 minutes, stirring now and then, until the onion is soft and translucent and starts to turn golden at the edges. If it browns too fast, lower the heat.
    ⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
    💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.

To assemble

  1. 3
    Add the salt and the rice to the onion and fry for 2 minutes.
    Stove
  2. 4
    Add water to cover the rice and cook for 10 minutes, until the water reduces. Let cool slightly.
    Stove
  3. 5
    Mix the ground meat with the salt and black pepper until evenly combined.
  4. 6
    With wet hands, shape patties the size of golf ball.
    💡Wet hands don't stick to the mixture, and the patties come out smooth and even.
  5. 7
    Mix the rice with the meatballs and fill the cavity of the chicken. Sew the opening shut with string.
    Kitchen twine
571calories
25 gprotein
42 gcarbs
32 gfat
● protein 18%● carbs 30%● fat 52%

Per serving (212 g), of 4 servings

For the Fried onion · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (2) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)

🧻 Consumables: Kitchen twine

By the steps, as the recipe is built now: another version or addition can change the list.

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Cumin · Turmeric · Cinnamon
  • Frying the rice (minutes): 2
  • Cooking the rice (minutes): 10
  • The bird with the filling (definite): the chicken

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