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

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Updated March 14, 2026

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