Spicy Roast Chicken with Peanuts

Ingredients :

• 1 tsp paprika
• A pinch of cayenne pepper
• A pinch of ginger powder
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 3 tbsp oil
• 3 heaped cups of shelled peanuts
• 1 kg chicken, oven-ready
• 100 gms butter
• 1 few slices of dry white bread
• 2 tsp light rum

Method :

1. In a small bowl, put the paprika cayenne pepper, ginger and salt. Add the oil and beat together well.
2. Put 50 gms peanuts through a small mill or work in blender.
3. Add the resulting powder to the oil and spice mixture. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C or 400 degrees F.
4. Wash, drain and wipe the chicken and season the inside with salt and pepper and truss. Coat the bird all over with the spicy oil and nut mixture, place it in a roasting pan and put in the oven to cook.
5. Put another 50 gms peanuts through the small mill or work in a blender and mix this powder into half of the butter. Add a little salt.
6. Toast the slices of dry bread and spread them with the prepared peanut butter mixture.
7. Put the remaining butter in a small frypan and when it just golden add the rest of the peanuts fry them
8. Put the toast on a baking sheet(cookie) sheet in the top of the oven and cook briefly, or until the peanuts butter topping is browned and bubbling.
9. When the chicken is done, pour the rum over it and set it alight.
10. Arrange the chicken on a hot serving dish and sprinkle over with the fried peanuts. Arrange the baked peanut bread slices around the chicken and serve at once.