Buckwheat and Mushrooms Stuffed Chicken

For the chicken stuffed with buckwheat and mushrooms recipe, it is better to take homemade chicken, not store-bought, it has denser skin and is better to work with. Rinse the chicken carcass, put it on the board with the breast down and cut along the spine. Open the chicken like a book, and carefully cut out all the bones with a thin knife, cut the bones from the wings, but not necessarily.

Separately, cook the filing for stuffing the chicken. Boil buckwheat in salted water, cut the mushrooms into slices, finely chop the onion, garlic and carrots. Put butter and 2 tbsp into the pan. vegetable oil. When the oil is hot, add the garlic and stir. Do not fry the garlic for a long time, when the aroma comes out - add the onion. Fry the onion until soft, and then add the carrots and mushrooms after 1-2 minutes. Mix everything well and simmer until the mushrooms are cooked. Mix stewed vegetables and buckwheat, add finely chopped parsley, salt, pepper and cool slightly.

Now you can stuff the chicken. Sew the chicken carcass with a thread from the neck to the middle and stuff the chicken with the prepared stuffing. The filling should be lightly tamped, but not much, as during baking, the skin of the chicken will tighten and the seam may open. Next, stuff the chicken in the same way - stitching a short distance, lay out the filling, etc.

In order for the stuffed chicken to have a beautiful color, it must be coated with sauce. To coat, mix the remaining vegetable oil with salt, black pepper and paprika. Coat the stuffed chicken with this mixture on all sides and place on the prepared baking sheet. The baking sheet can be greased with vegetable oil, but this is not necessary, as fat will flow out of the chicken when baking. Preheat oven to 180°C (355°F), put stuffed chicken in it and bake 15 minutes.

Remove, baste the chicken with the resulting juices, lower the temperature to 160°C (320°F) and bake for another 60-90 minutes. The amount of time depends on the weight of the stuffed chicken, it is advisable to weigh the chicken before baking in order to know the approximate cooking time. Put the prepared stuffed chicken on the prepared dish, let the chicken rest for 10-15 minutes, and then cut into portions.