I used a pressure cooker to fasten up the cooking process but this works in the oven also, just takes longer.
Keep the remaining carcass in the freezer till you need to make stock.
Ingredients
1 rooster, cut into 6 pieces
4 garlic cloves, minced
2 onions, finely chopped
1 tbs butter and splash of oil for browning the rooster
1/4 c passata
1/2 c white wine
2 tbs apple cider vinegar
1/2 tsp nutmeg, ground
1/2 tsp allspice, ground
1/2 tsp mace, ground
1/4 tsp cloves, ground
1 tsp sugar
salt and pepper to taste
1 c water
thick spaghetti for 2
Method
Cut the rooster into 6 pieces.
There will be 2 drumsticks and 2 thighs and 2 breast/wing. A rooster doesn’t have as much meat on the chest so if you find removing the meat difficult, cut the carcass in half so it’s still on the bone.
Heat the butter and oil in a large pan and brown the rooster in batches then set aside.
Add more oil if needed and slowly cook the chopped onion for 10 mins, add the minced garlic and cook for a further 3 minutes.
Add the ground nutmeg, ground All pice, mace and cloves, cook till fragrant.
Add the passata and cook for a further 2 minutes then add the wine, cider vinegar and sugar. Cook for 2 minutes.
Add the rooster back to the pan and coat with the sauce,
Pour in the water and stir.
Now, you can either place this, covered, in a 160° for 2 hours (long and slow is the way to go) or cook it in a pressure cooker for 40 minutes.
To eat this traditionally, pull the meat off the bone and serve over thick spaghetti but you could eat it with baby potatoes and vegetables or with rice… all versions would be amazing.
- 1 rooster, cut into 6 pieces
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 onions, finely chopped
- 1 tbs butter and splash of oil for browning the rooster
- ¼ c passata
- ½ cup white wine
- 2 tbs apple cider vinegar
- ½ tsp nutmeg, ground
- ½ tsp pimenta (allspice), ground
- ½ tsp mace, ground
- ¼ tsp cloves, ground
- 1 tsp sugar
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 cup water
- thick spaghetti for 2
- Cut the rooster into 6 pieces
- There will be 2 drumsticks and 2 thighs and 2 breast/wing. A rooster doesn’t have as much meat on the chest so if you find removing the meat difficult, cut the carcass in half so it’s still on the bone.
- Heat the butter and oil in a large pan and brown the rooster in batches then set aside.
- Add more oil if needed and slowly cook the chopped onion for 10 mins, add the minced garlic and cook for a further 3 minutes.
- Add the ground nutmeg, pimenta, mace and cloves, cook till fragrant.
- Add the passata and cook for a further 2 minutes then add the wine, cider vinegar and sugar. Cook for 2 minutes.
- Add the rooster back to the pan and coat with the sauce,
- Pour in the water and stir.
- Now, you can either place this, covered, in a 160° for 2 hours (long and slow is the way to go) or cook it in a pressure cooker for 40 minutes.
- To eat this traditionally, pull the meat off the bone and serve over thick spaghetti but you could eat it with baby potatoes and vegetables or with rice… all versions would be amazing!