Pot Chicken

Ingredients

• 4 pot chickens (about 450 g)
• Salt
• black pepper (freshly ground)
• vegetable oil (for greasing the pan)
• 1 onion
• 1 apple
• 1 cinnamon stick
• a handful of lemon balm
• 30 g Butter
• 1 tsp paprika powder

Instructions

1. 1.

   Preheat the oven to 180°C with fan and top heat.

2. 2.

   Rinse the chickens, pat dry. Season inside with salt and pepper and place in a greased baking dish (breast side up). Peel and dice the onion. Wash the apple, quarter it, remove the core and dice small. Break the cinnamon stick into pieces. Rinse the lemon balm, shake dry, strip leaves and roughly chop. Heat butter in a small pot, add half of the lemon balm, paprika powder, cinnamon, salt and pepper, then brush this mixture over the chickens. Sprinkle with apples and onions and bake in the oven for about 40 minutes until golden brown. During baking periodically spoon the cooking liquid over the chickens and add a little water if needed.

3. 3.

   Remove from the oven and serve sprinkled with the remaining lemon balm.