Ingredients

  • 1 each broiler fryers
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 2 cloves garlic peeled and minced
  • 12 each white onion chopped
  • 12 each potatoes pared, white
  • 4 each carrots pared and quartered
  • 1 cup white wine dry
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon rosemary leaves crumbled
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper freshly ground
  • 1 can chicken broth condensed

Method

  • Wash and dry chicken; skewer neck skin to back; twist the wing tips flat against skewered neck skin; tie the legs to tail with kitchen strings.
  • Heat oil and butter or margarine with the minced garlic in a 12 cup flame proof casserole or a large kettle.
  • Brown chicken in the hot fat; remove.
  • Saute onions, potatoes and carrots in drippings; remove and reserve.
  • Stir wine, salt, rosemary and pepper into casserole and bring to boiling, scraping up all the cooked on juices from bottom of casserole; stir in chicken broth; return chicken to casserole; surround with browned vegetables; cover.
  • (If using a kettle, place chicken in a 12-cup casserole; surround with browned vegetables; pour sauce over; cover.)
  • Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) 1 hour, basting several times with casserole juices, or until chicken is tender.
  • Garnish with a bouquet of parsley and serve with a chilled white wine, such as Chablis, and chunks of crusty French bread if you wish.