Albanian Roast Chicken Recipe - onion

Method

• Here's another recipe that is a great favorite of ours, and that I clipped from a newspaper (Washington Post) about 15 years ago.
• It's called
• "Albanian Chicken", although I've never seen an Albanian Cookbook, and have never seen another Albanian recipe, it seems like something my great grandmother would have cooked.
• The use of sauerkraut as a stuffing seems weird, but is characteristic of Middle European cooking.
• You often find it mixed with apples...here it's mixed with paprika and caraway seeds.
• The stuffing is sensationally delicious, and the chicken comes out extremely tender, every time.
• This is a recipe you have to cook to understand.
• Saute/fry onion in oil till golden brown, stirring often.
• Combine sauerkraut, paprika, and caraway seeds with onion.
• Spoon as much kraut mix as possible into the body cavity of the chicken.
• Reserve remainder of kraut for later
• Place chicken on roasting rack in a shallow roasting pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 1-1/2 hrs.
• Remove pan from oven, take chicken out.
• Pour off fat in bottom of pan.
• Spread remaining kraut in bottom of pan and set chicken in pan.
• Bake another 1/2 to 1 hour to brown.
• Season as desired.
• Leftovers make great sliced chicken and sauerkraut sandwiches.
• (If your mail program renders the times weird looking, they're 1.5 hurs for baking, and .5 to 1 hour for browning.
• The "1/2 " is ASCII 189 and= represents "1/2" in US English.)