Recipe of the Week: How to Make Rellenong Manok ( Stuffed Chicken )

Here's a recipe perfect for the holiday season. Bless your Noche Buena with this classic Filipino dish. Enjoy cooking! 
1 Large Chicken (1 ½ - 2 Kilos)

3 tbsp Soy Sauce

3 tbsp Calamansi Juice or Lemon Juice

½ Kilo Ground Pork

¼ Kilo Cooked Ham, Finely Chopped

4 pcs. Vienna Sausage, Finely Chopped

¼ cup Sweet Pickle Relish

3 Eggs

½ Cup Grated Cheese

10 pcs. Green Olives, Pitted then Chopped

½ Cup Raisins

1-2 tbsp Catsup

1 tbsp MSG

2 Hard Boiled Eggs, Quartered

¼ Cup Butter

1.       Prepare the chicken and carefully debone, then marinate in soy sauce and calamansi juice. Set aside.

2.       In a mixing bowl, thoroughly mix all the ingredients aside from the hard boiled eggs and the butter.

3.       Fry about a table spoon of the mixture, taste and correct the seasoning if necessary.

4.       Stuff the mixture inside the chicken and arrange the hard boiled eggs in the center by pushing the mixture along the side of the cavity.

5.       Sew up the opening with kitchen thread using overlapping stitches and wrap in aluminum foil. Don’t sew too tightly or the chicken will burst upon cooking.

6.       Bake in moderate oven heat (350°F) for 1 ½ hours.

7.       When almost done unwrap and continue baking until chicken is golden brown, baste with butter occasionally.

8.       Cool and slice.

9.       Arrange in a platter. Serves 12 people.

10.   Enjoy!  

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