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Hāngī-style chicken
Chicken and root vegetables wrapped and baked with smoked salt — a home version of the Māori earth oven.
6 servings · 180 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 6 servings.
- 1.8 kg Chicken, in pieces
- 800 g Sweet potato
- 700 g Potatoes
- 600 g Pumpkin
- 400 g Cabbage
- 3 piece Onions
- 2 tbsp Smoked salt
- 80 g Butter
- 2 tbsp Smoking wood chips
- 1 tsp Black pepper
Method
- Rub the chicken with smoked salt and pepper and leave it half an hour.
- Cut the sweet potato, potato and pumpkin into large pieces and the cabbage into quarters.
- Wrap the wood chips in foil, pierce it in a few places and put the packet at the bottom of a deep tray.
- Lay the vegetables on a rack above the chips, the chicken over them, season and dot with butter.
- Seal the tray tightly with two layers of foil; no steam may escape.
- Bake at 160 °C for two hours without opening it.
- Take off the foil and let the chicken colour for ten minutes at 200 °C.
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