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Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin

So here is my first attempt to make a chicken skin stuffed with ground chicken meat, walnuts, prunes and some other ingredients. I’ve got a recipe for a friend of mine and had to try.

It is a bit tricky game to get chicken out of its skin w/o damaging the skin, but I managed it (and prepared step-by-step instructions with photos along the way).

The only hiccup I had on the way was with bacon. The smoked bacon I used had very powerful and distinctive taste, and it mostly took over the taste of other ingredients. So for this recipe I suggest to use smaller amount of non-smoked bacon, or replace it with ground pork instead.

Ingredients:

  • 1 big whole chicken
  • 3oz-4oz of bacon (can be substituted with pork meat or skipped altogether)
  • 1 egg
  • 4 oz of dried pitted prunes
  • 4 oz of cleaned walnuts
  • 2-3 small cloves of garlic
  • Small bunch of green parsley
  • Ground black pepper (and other spices you like with the chicken) to taste
  • Salt to taste
  • 2 tablespoons of tkemali sauce (can be replaced with honey and melted butter mix)
  • A bit of oil

How to prepare, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients: rinse prunes with hot water and drain, remove pits if needed; rinse chicken outside and inside, pat it dry with paper towel; rinse parsley:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 1
  2. Carefully remove chicken skin in whole peace (keep the skin):
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 2
  3. Separate meat from bones (discard bones or use them to cook a chicken broth) and slice meat into smaller pieces:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 3
  4. Using meat grinder, chop chicken meat, bacon (or pork), prunes and walnuts together:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 4
  5. Peel and grind garlic as well:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 5
  6. Add salt, ground black pepper and other spices you like to the bowl (I used Georgian khmeli suneli spice mix in addition to salt and pepper):
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 6
  7. Add chopped parsley:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 7
  8. Mix and add an egg:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 8
  9. And mix stuffing again:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 9
  10. Using a spoon, carefully stuff chicken skin you prepared earlier with the mixed meat stuffing:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 10
  11. Pin thigh, neck and bottom openings on chicken skin together with sharp wooden toothpicks:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 11
  12. Warm up oven to 355F. Move stuffed chicken skin to a baking pan smeared with a bit of oil:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 12
  13. Brush stuffed chicken skin with tkemali sauce (or if you don’t have it, you can use honey and melted butter):
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 13
  14. Sprinkle chicken skin with a bit of oil on top:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 14
  15. Put baking pan to the oven warmed up to 355F for 45-60mins, once cooked through (check with thermometer), remove stuffed chicken skin from the oven:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin Recipe: Step 15
  16. Slice into portion pieces and serve:
    Prune and Walnut Stuffed Chicken Skin
Enjoy!