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 tsbp oil
- 3 heaped cups of shelled peanuts
- 1 kg chichken, oven ready
- 100 gms butter
- 1 few slices of dry white bread
- 2 tsp light rum
Method:
- In a small bowl, put the paprika cayenne pepper, ginger and salt. Add the oil and beat together well. Put 50 gms peanuts through a small mill or work in blender.
- Add the resulting powder to the oil and spice mixture. Preheat the oven to 200 degree C or 400 degree F.
- 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.
- 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.
- Toast the slices if dry bread and spread them with the prepared peanut butter mixture.
- Put the remaning butter in a small fry pan and whne it just golden add the rest of the peanuts. Fry them
- Put the toast on a baking sheet(cookie) sheet in the top of the oven and cook briefly, or until the peanuts butter toping is browned and bubbling.
- When the chicken is done, pour the rum over it and set iit alight.
- Arrange the chicken on a hot serving dish and sprinkle over withe the fried peanuts. Arrange the baked peanut bread slices round the chicken and serve at once.