Matzo-Stuffed Roast Chicken for Passover

Name: Matzo-Stuffed Roast Chicken for Passover
Ingredients: 1 roasting chicken with giblets (about 5 pounds); 4 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for rubbing; 1 cup matzo meal; 1 2/3 cups dry white wine, or as needed; 3 eggs, lightly beaten; 1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped; 2 cups dried currants; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; Juice of 1 lemon

By Joyce Goldstein

March 14, 2016

Here, dried currants, walnuts, and matzo meal combine to make a rich, savory stuffing for the Passover roast chicken. (The same amount of stuffing can be used for two 3-pound birds.) The recipe is based on one from the Greek community of Ioannina as transcribed by Nicholas Stavroulakis in his wonderful Cookbook of the Jews of Greece.

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