My first savoury recipe for the year and boy do I have something special. Something that’ll blow your socks off and wow your guests. Its my Butterflied Indian Spiced Inglewood Organic Chicken with Garam Masala Potatoes & Minted Curry Peas. Yes it’s a mouthful but a delicious mouthful at that. I’m working again with Inglewood Organic Chicken to showcase their beautiful chicken. If you haven’t caught the other recipes I created using their chicken make sure you check out the Moroccan Roast Chicken With Quinoa, Pistachio & Currant Stuffing and the Sticky BBQ Chicken Burger With Steakhouse Fries. You won’t be disappointed with any of these recipes including this one today.

This delicious Butterflied Indian Spiced Inglewood Organic Chicken is perfect for feeding the masses and tantalizing their taste buds. I mean presenting a delightful banquet such as this to your guests will bring not only a smile to their face but get their juices flowing. The smell is heavenly. Bringing you to the orient with the waft of spices and roast chicken. I had such a fun coming up with this recipe and I wanted to create something that would showcase this beautiful chicken by Inglewood Organic Chicken and treat it right. I thought since butterflying a chicken might make you nervous I would show you the process on how to do that so making this recipe will be a breeze for you.

The first step in butterflying a chicken is to place it onto a cutting board, breast meat side facing down. You will need a pair of good kitchen scissors to cut along the side of the spine starting from the bottom end cutting all the way up to the neck end. Repeat this process on the other side so that you are left with the spine removed from the back of the bird. See the pictures below.

The next step is to cut out the bony cartilage between the birds legs. You will need a small knife to cut around bony cartilage to remove any meat attaching it. Then using your kitchen scissors snipping it off. Once that is removed turn the bird over and splay the legs out on the cutting board. Make sure you tuck the wings behind it to stop them burning during the cooking process.

You may ask what the point of butterflying a whole chicken is? Well it halves the cooking time of a normal roast chicken and when you don’t want to have the oven on too long during the warmer months, butterflying a chicken is the perfect solution. Plus serving is this way is also appealing to guests as it looks pretty spectacular once cooked and it makes it easier to carve and portion out.

The next step with the bird is to lay it in a lined baking tray filled with halved rounds of garlic and thick lemon slices to infuse the meat during cooking. Since we are making this Inglewood Organic Chicken into a Indian feast it’s time to slather the chicken with the most fragrant and delicious Indian paste. This paste is really easy to make - all you need is a food processor or blender to blend all the ingredients together. Bam - that is it. Once the paste has been made (which you can do in advance) you rub it over the butterflied chicken making sure to rub evenly into all the crevices of the chicken. Once that has been done drizzle a little olive oil over the entire bird and into the oven it goes. It only takes about 35-45 minutes to cook in total and all the side will be cooked in that time as well.

Talking about sides I will put them into the spotlight for a bit. We have crunchy and delicious Garam Masala Roasted Potatoes that have a hint of lime juice that leave your tongue tingling for another bite. These were a pleasure to eat can I tell you. The Minted Curried Peas are a cinch to make with a little time only needed to make sure the onions are caramelized to perfection as this is the base of the peas and gives it so much flavour. A simple spice mix is added and finished with fresh mint. It complimented the entire feast nicely and I was really happy with how every recipe turned out. Hubby was very pleased with himself when he came home to have this for dinner. He said each component complimented each other nicely and the Butterflied Indian Spiced Inglewood Organic Chicken was the star of the show.

I hope you enjoy this dish as much as I did. If you need to find out where you can find your local Inglewood Organic Chicken supplier is make sure you check out the store locator on their website.