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Main dishes · New Zealand

Hāngī-style chicken

Chicken and root vegetables wrapped and baked with smoked salt — a home version of the Māori earth oven.

◷ 180 minutes♧ 6 servingsSave as cookbook PDF ↓
Hāngī-style chicken

Ingredients

For 6 servings · tick what is ready

Use the scaled ingredient list. Steps and temperatures stay unchanged; use a larger pan or dish if needed. Seasonings to taste stay to taste.

LET’S COOK

How to make it

01

Rub the chicken with smoked salt and pepper and leave it half an hour.

02

Cut the sweet potato, potato and pumpkin into large pieces and the cabbage into quarters.

03

Wrap the wood chips in foil, pierce it in a few places and put the packet at the bottom of a deep tray.

04

Lay the vegetables on a rack above the chips, the chicken over them, season and dot with butter.

05

Seal the tray tightly with two layers of foil; no steam may escape.

06

Bake at 160 °C for two hours without opening it.

07

Take off the foil and let the chicken colour for ten minutes at 200 °C.

About this recipe

By UniTools · Source: UniTools — theunitools.com. Recipe content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: Einalem · CC BY-SA 2.0