• Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 60 - 90 minutes

• Serves: 4 - 6

Ingredients

• SPAR chicken spice
• 45 ml SPAR olive oil for rubbing
• 1 x whole SPAR chicken approximately 1.7 kg

• 10 ml SPAR olive oil
• 1 SPAR Freshline onion, finely chopped
• 1 SPAR Freshline bunch spring onions finely cut
• 150g SPAR Freshline button mushrooms 
• 3 ml ground turmeric powder
• 15 ml freshly chopped rosemary
• 5 ml crushed garlic
• Juice from one SPAR Freshline lemon
• 250 ml prepared couscous.
• 1 SPAR oven roasting bag

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190℃ .
2. Rub olive oil and spice all over the chicken even under the skin if possible.
3. Set chicken aside.
4. In a saucepan, heat the olive oil and fry onion until translucent.  Add the spring onions, mushrooms, turmeric, rosemary and garlic and sauté for another few minutes.  Drizzle with lemon juice and add the cooked couscous.  Mix through and set aside to cool.
5. Stuff the cavity of the chicken with stuffing.  Tie the drumsticks together, and place in a SPAR oven roasting bag and roast for 1 – 1, 5 hours or until cooked through. 
6. Serve with grilled vegetables and salad. 

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