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INGREDIENTS
4 lb chicken
¾ cup uncooked rice
¼ cup chopped parsley
CHICKEN STUFFING
1 cup ground meat (any type will do)
½ cup uncooked rice
1 tsp salt
¼ tsp black pepper
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp pine nuts
½ cup water
1 small tomato, chopped
DIRECTIONS
- Mix all ingredients in the stuffing together in a large bowl.
- Stuff the inside of the chicken with the mixture.
- Sew the open cavity of the chicken closed with a thick thread.
- Place the chicken in a large stock pot and slightly cover with salted water.
- Bring to a boil and cook for 15 minutes.
- Skim the water.
- Place the chicken in a pressure cooker and cover with 3 ½ cups fresh water.
- Set the pressure cooker to 15 lbs and cook the chicken for 30 minutes.
- Remove the chicken from the pressure cooker and place in a baking dish.
- Add a bit of the broth from the pressure cooker to the bottom of the baking dish.
- Set the oven on 250 degrees and allow the chicken to slow cook while finishing the soup.
- Add the ¾ cup rice to the pressure cooker and seal.
- Cook for eight minutes at 15 lbs pressure.
- Open the pressure cooker and add a bit of broth from the chicken boil to the cooker if the rice is too thick for soup.
- Ladle the soup into serving bowls.
- Top the bowls with ground cinnamon and parsley.
- Serve the soup with the chicken sliced on a platter.