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Well, actually it was Poussin, but why ruin a good subject line and a chance to check the rabidity of your spam filters? Anyway, I was bored tonight and passing by a Tesco Metro, where they had Poussin on "two for 3.50". I love these things - it's like a whole roast chicken, but just the right size for a sad, lonely loser like me to eat on his own (it's also really easy to cook them for up to about 8 - you can fit that many in a roasting tin). I decided to go for a vaguely barbecuey feel, and marinaded the little sucker for an hour before cooking. The marinade was prepared using my patented "grab stuff that's in the cupboard; mix together till it tastes good" method. Tonight's mixture consisted of, approximately: 4 tbsp Chinese Cooking Wine 2 tbsp Nando's Hot Peri-Peri sauce 4 tbsp Lingham's Sweet Chili Sauce [0] 1 tbsp Worcester Sauce 1 tbsp Dark Soy Sauce And I had a can of beer open so I bunged in a quick glug of that, because beer makes things good. If I ever wrote a cookery book, it would centre around the concept of beer in cooking. I can see it now - "The Wasted Chef"... Aaaanyway... I also put 4 cloves of garlic inside the cavity of the bird. After marinading, I took the bird, shoved it in a roasting tin and stuck it in the (fan) oven at 220 deg. c. for 25 minutes. I then took the remaining marinade and simmered it for about 10 minutes to reduce and thicken before leaving it to cool. The bird needed basting with oil once - the skin started crisping too soon due to the fan. After 25 minutes, I covered the poussin with the reduced marinade (now more of a sticky glaze), and roasted for about another 15 minutes on 200 deg. c. The end result was really rather good - the skin was moist and spicy, whilst the rest of the meat was nicely flavoured by the marinade whilst still tasting pleasantly of chicken-with-a-touch-more-game. There was a hint of garlic in there too, but it was very much a subtle note. I served it with corn on the cob, because a) It's the easiest thing in the world to cook (boil for 7 mins, serve) b) It was on two for one in Tescos and I'm a lazy shopper. I now have another lot of corn cobs and another poussin to cook. If I come up with a wildly different marinade, I shall inform you all with glee... sb [0] This stuff is fantastic. I picked it off the shelf at random one day, I think in the same Tesco Metro (Covent Garden). It's got a bright yellow label, and is the best sweet chili sauce I've ever had.
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