Baked Chicken W/ Vegetable Cream Cheese Rice Stuffing

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 whole broiler-fryer chicken
• 1 tablespoon mccormick all seasoning salt
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1/4 cup chopped celery
• 1/4 cup whole almond, then chopped
• 1/4 cup chopped onion (optional)
• 1/2 teaspoon parsley flakes or 1/2 teaspoon cilantro
• 1/2 teaspoon chicken bouillon granule
• 1/4 cup raw rice
• 2 dashes turmeric
• pam cooking spray

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven 350*.
• 2 spray pam in a roaster or 2 quart casserole.
• 3 in mixing bowl, blend in milk,cream cheese, celery, almonds,onion, cilantro, chicken granules and rice and turmeric.
• 4 wash and dry the bird, and stuff the cavity with the vegetable rice dressing.
• 5 sew the cavity shut or use foil to close the opening. better to sew shut. if there is a flap of skin by the hole in front, you can fill the front also and sew shut.
• 6 rub all seasoning all over the chicken.
• 7 place breast side up.
• 8 roast uncovered for 45 minutes.
• 9 baste with meat juice in the roaster.
• 10 then cook 20 more minutes.
• 11 serve with cold diced tomatoes.