Slow-simmered Chicken

Total Time: 2 hrs 21 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 6 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 1/2-2 kg chicken
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 3 -4 slices ginger
• 1 chicken stock cube
• 2 onions, quartered
• 3 tablespoons gherkins, chopped
• 1 chinese cabbage or 1 savoy cabbage, cut into wedges

Recipe

• 1 blanch chicken in boiling water 6 minutes, skimming any scum from the surface. drain well.
• 2 rub it inside and out with the salt and stuff with a mixture of the ginger, crumbled stock cube, onion and gherkins.
• 3 put the stuffed chicken in a flameproof casserole with 5 cups water.
• 4 bring to the boil; then put the casserole in the oven, preheated to 180 c.
• 5 cook for 1 hour 20 minutes, turning the chicken once. take the chicken out and arrange the cabbage wedges in the liquid place the chicken on top.
• 6 return the casserole to the oven and cook for a further 40 minutes, serve straight from the casserole or from a large warmed tureen.