Chapter 171
Ch 171 -- Roast Chicken
Right then, time to make dinner . What I had planned for tonight was a simple pilaf roast chicken . My parents made it sometimes when I was still at home . After I moved out I made it for myself once at Christmas for old time's sake and I enjoyed it so much it became a regular thing for me to make pilaf roast chicken on Christmas . For that reason I didn't forsee any problems making it in this world, and it's something I've been thinking about making ever since I bought the Black Magic Cooking Stove with its gigantic oven .
This world doesn't actually seem to have chickens but I've got something that will work the same (I think) . A Cockatrice . I have a whole one left and as prepared by the Guild dismantlers it's just like a chicken, that is if a chicken was 1 . 5 meters long . Even the Gluttonous Trio will be full up after eating a "chicken" this big . Probably .
First the ingredients . I needed to buy stuff like herbal salt and frozen pilaf and a brush to apply oil so I opened the Net Super and started ordering before I got to work . I avoided a lot of bothersome preparation by buying frozen pilaf which I heated lightly in a big frying pan to defrost since I didn't have a microwave oven, the way I would have defrosted it it at home . Sure I could have made the pilaf from scratch but it would take a lot of time and the frozen stuff was just as good for this recipe . I rubbed herbal salt on the Cockatrice inside and out and when the pilaf was warmed through I packed it into the Cockatrice's body .
After filling it up with pilaf I stitched the carcass closed with a bamboo skewer and tied the legs together with cooking string to keep the shape before brushing the entire Cockatrice with olive oil . I put the completed Cockatrice on a giant sheet of baking parchment in the pre-heated oven . It just fitted, as the Black Magic Cooking Stove salesman had said . Yosh!
I baked the Cockatrice at 200 degrees for just under an hour, keeping a close eye on it as I was still a bit unsure of the oven's temperature settings . I opened the door frequently to brush the dripping fat over the skin, making it brown and crisp and about half-way through the baking process I turned the entire Cockatrice over to ensure it cooked evenly . I used another bamboo skewer to stab the giant bird and when the fat that ran out was clear I judged it was ready to eat . I took it out and removed the bamboo skewer and the string before admiring the results of my cooking . A whole roast chicken is a wonderful sight but a whole roast Cockatrice outdid it by far, and the smell! However I didn't have long to enjoy looking at the results of my hard work since I was distracted by the piteous voices of the staving waifs and orphans behind me .
"That looks delicious . " Fer seemed appreciative .
"Hurry up and give me it . " Dora-chan was hovering impatiently at Fer's shoulder, his muzzle quivering .
"It's such a big piece of meat- Sui wants to eat it quick-" Sui was pyonging enthusiastically .
Everyone's eyes were nailed to the roast "chicken" .
"Hang on, I'll have to remove the meat from the bones first . " I got to work, separating the meat and heaping the pilaf soaked in the bird's juices into dishes for my contracted monsters .
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