Eight-spice spatchcock chicken

Serves:4 to 6
Cooking Time:1 hour
Prep Time:15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 piece of dried ginger
  • A pinch cloves
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds, lightly roasted
  • 4 star anise
  • 1 tsp fennel seeds, crushed
  • 5 ml cinnamon sugar, for dusting
  • A few peppercorns
  • olive oil, to drizzle
  • 1 chicken, spatchcocked
  • 4 cloves garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 3 tomatoes, chopped
  • 2 fresh green chillies, sliced
  • Maldon sea salt, to taste

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Start a fire for indirect cooking in a Weber braai.
  2. Using a pestle and mortar, grind the ginger, cloves, nutmeg, cumin seeds, star anise, fennel seeds, cinnamon and peppercorns into a rough powder.
  3. Drizzle olive oil over the chicken and then rub it liberally with the spice mixture and lemon juice, then scatter the garlic on top.
  4. Place in the Weber, close the lid and braai for 1 hour or until cooked.
  5. Toss the tomatoes and chillies in olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt.
  6. Place in a dish in the Weber for 30 minutes until roasted.
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