Roast Chicken With Groundnut Dressing

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The West African contented of pairing peanuts with fowl recovered an aboriginal location successful South Carolina's debased country. Here the vertebrate is accompanied by a maize breadstuff that's typically Southern, with nary sweetener oregon wheat flour. To reproduce this maize breadstuff the mode John Martin Taylor's grandmothers made it, with a golden-brown crust, you volition request a 9- oregon 10-inch well-seasoned, never-washed cast-iron skillet.

Serve with a simply prepared greenish rootlike oregon salad.

Make the com breadstuff a time successful advance, truthful that you person lone to assemble the stuffing and roast the bird.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 3-4

For the maize bread

1 ample egg
2 cups buttermilk
1 3/4 cups stone-ground cornmeal
1 1/2 teaspoons to 2 teaspoons strained bacon grease
1 scant spoon baking powder
1 scant spoon salt
1 scant spoon baking soda

For the stuffing

1/2 look maize breadstuff (see above)
1/4 cupful chopped onion
1/4 cupful chopped celery
1 tablespoonful peanut oil
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/8 spoon each dried parsley, savory, marjoram and basil leaves
1/4 cupful chopped, unsalted dry-roasted peanuts
1 ample egg, lightly beaten
1 tablespoonful unsalted butter, melted
1 cupful homemade oregon no-salt-added chickenhearted broth

For the chicken

One 3 1/2-to-4-pound chicken
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 to 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, precise soft
1/2 cupful unsalted dry-roasted peanuts
Cayenne pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 4, utilizing low-fat buttermilk)

Calories
830
Fat
51 g
Saturated Fat
14 g
Carbohydrates
34 g
Sodium
930 mg
Cholesterol
240 mg
Protein
59 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking" Twentieth Anniversary Edition, by John Martin Taylor (University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

Tested by Tim Carman.

Published September 11, 2012

Updated March 14, 2026