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CHICKEN BALLOTINE

April 15, 2013 By Manu 8 Comments

Chicken Ballotine

For the April Daring Cooks Challenge, Lisa from Parsley, Sage and Sweet has challenged us to debone a whole chicken, using this video by Jacques Pepin as our guide; then stuff it, tie it and roast it, to create a Chicken Ballotine.
Wow! What a challenge!  I was absolutely thrilled when I saw it!  I had never deboned a whole chicken before, but the thought of doing it did not scare me at all.  In fact, I could not wait to try!  I have always been fascinated by the butcher’s work.  I think it has something to do with the fact that, when I was a child, my parents would take me to this old fashioned butchery in Piedmont to buy meat to last us all winter (stored in the freezer).  The butcher had his own animals and that meat would be so much tastier and genuine than the one we could get in Milano.  Anyhow, it would take a long time to get our order and I would stand on a chair and watch the butcher cut, slice, weigh, debone… it was just entertaining.  Not only… his wife would usually give me a few slices of their home-made salami or ham to munch on… yummmmm!  I have some great memories of that place!  Once home, I would help my parents to divide, wrap and freeze all the meat we had bought… I think that’s why I have never been intimidated or grossed out by raw meat.  This was however the very first time I deboned a full chicken by myself.  The video that Lisa provided was amazingly helpful.  All you have to do is follow the instructions and you’ll be able to do it too.  I did not have any serious problem with the deboning… but my tying needs a little improvement! Hehehe  I could not take many pictures of the deboning as my hands were a bit… dirty, but I will put up the video in the post, so do not worry!  I filled my ballotine with a typical Italian filling made of mince, sausage, prosciutto, mortadella and pistachios.  We usually fill our roasted capon with it and have it for Christmas (though the capon is usually not deboned).  I made some roasted apples to serve with it and it was delicious.  And the best part?  It tasted even better the next day!  I must say, slicing a whole chicken and eating it without worrying about bones, was a great experience!  I hope you like it too!

Chicken Ballotine

Chicken Ballotine
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Chicken Ballotine

Chicken Ballotine filled with cold meats and pistachios... the Italian way!

Course Main
Cuisine French, Italian
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 15 minutes
Author Manuela Zangara

Ingredients

Chicken and Stuffing

  • 1 whole chicken 1.5 kg to 1.8 kg – 3.3 lbs. to 4 lbs.
  • 150 gms – 5.3 oz. mince beef or veal
  • 150 gms – 5.3 oz. Italian pork sausage casing removed
  • 60 gms – 2 oz. prosciutto sliced
  • 60 gms – 2 oz. mortadella sliced
  • 50 gms – 1.75 oz. Parmigiano Reggiano finely grated
  • 1 egg
  • 25 ml – 0.9 oz. Marsala wine or Brandy
  • 35 gms – 1.25 oz. pistachios
  • 15 gms – 0.5 oz. sandwich bread
  • 1 pinch nutmeg
  • Sale and Pepper to taste

Roasting

  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 2 rosemary sprigs
  • 4 sage leaves
  • 2 bay leaves
  • ½ tbsp garlic powder
  • ½ tbsp paprika
  • 100 ml – 3.5 oz. white wine
  • 1 chicken stock cube
  • 40 ml – 1.4 oz. water
  • 2 red apples cored and sliced in 6 or 8 pieces
  • Extra virgin olive oil to brush
  • Ground pepper and salt to taste

Instructions

Chicken and Stuffing

  1. Soak the bread with Marsala and then mix it with all the other ingredients apart from the prosciutto and mortadella slices.
  2. Keep the stuffing in the fridge while deboning the chicken.
  3. Debone the chicken following the instructions in this video.
  4. And these photos:
  5. Gently flatten the chicken out with a meat mallet.
  6. Season with salt and pepper.
  7. Put the prosciutto slices on the open chicken. Spread the stuffing (make sure to push some inside the thighs!). Put the mortadella slices on the top.
  8. Close the chicken and tie it up with butcher’s twine (see the above video for instructions).

Roasting

  1. Put the ballotine in an oven tray and rub it with the ground pepper, paprika and garlic powder.
  2. Drizzle with the extra virgin olive oil.
  3. Put the garlic cloves, bay leaves, rosemary and sage in the tray.
  4. Roast in a preheated oven at 230°C – 445°F for the first 15 minutes, then add in the white wine, water and crumbled stock cube.
  5. Decrease the temperature to 200°C – 390°F and roast for 1 hour or until it reaches an internal temperature of 165°F – 74°C (or when the juices run clear when you pierce the chicken).
  6. Add the sliced apples 15 to 20 minutes before the chicken is ready.
  7. Let the ballotine rest for approximately 20 minutes covered loosely in foil before slicing and serving it with the apples and sauce.

 

Chicken Ballotine

Chicken Ballotine

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Filed Under: Christmas, Daring Cooks, French, Italian, Mains, Meat, Special Occasions Tagged With: apples, ballotine, chicken, Daring Cooks, dinner, French, Italian, main, meat, mortadella, pistachios, poultry, prosciutto, roast, sausage, Special Occasions

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Comments

  1. Sandra's Easy Cooking says

    April 16, 2013 at 3:18 am

    Looks very, very delicious Manu! I wish I have it for my lunch today 🙂

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  2. Eha says

    April 16, 2013 at 1:19 pm

    Manu dearHeart . . . have seen other results from the same challenge . . . . you surely have made a wonderfully neat and appetizing ‘job’ of the process and each to their own surprise stuffing 🙂 !

    Reply
  3. Audax Artifex says

    April 16, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    WOW your photography is stunning and the stuffing sounds superbly delicious. Bravo to you for your brilliant results. And I had very similar experiences as a child in Sydney Australia I really looked forward to this challenge. Excellent work. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.

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  4. Renata says

    April 16, 2013 at 8:56 pm

    I’m honestly relieved that at someone had issues with the tying and not only me. Can you believe this was the part of the video that I had to repeat more times! haha
    I absolutely LOVE your filling, Italian style Manu. And the roasted apples are on my list for the next roast of Ballotine! A great job, as always!

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  5. Lisa says

    April 17, 2013 at 8:47 am

    Manuela..I’m still blown away by your Ballotine. You deboned it so beautifully, just like Jacque, nary a tear. I’m so excited to try your traditional Italian stuffing..I’ve been dreaming about it since I saw it and am planning on making it for some guests late May. Thank you so much for taking part in my challenge, you took a five-star dish up antother five stars! You’re amazing!

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  6. [email protected] in disguise says

    April 17, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    Manu you did a wonderful job on this challenge! The pictures, the filling , the end result ..simply breath taking my friend!

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  7. Nuts about food says

    April 17, 2013 at 8:27 pm

    I on the other hand, am completely intimidated by deboning a chicken! I love how your parents brought you up and taught you about great ingredients and how to work with them.

    Reply
  8. Chris says

    April 20, 2013 at 3:45 am

    That looks very good! I bet it tastes also luvly!

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