So many tasty recipes here! Thanks everyone.
This is something I make in my slow cooker at least a couple of times a month. In fact I'm making it now.
The smell that permeates the house is to die for. You could also make it in an oven.
Lemon and Garlic Macadamia Roast Chicken
1 whole chicken (I prefer free range for the taste)
6 lemons
1 cup of semi-crushed macadamia nuts (I usually stick them in a plastic bag and whack them with a rolling pin a few times)
1 tablespoon of minced/crushed garlic
1 teaspoon of macadamia oil
Cut the lemons in half. Then cut a slice off a bit of the rounded bottom section of the lemon so it can stand up in the bottom of the slow cooker or baking tray with the insides of the lemon facing upwards. Put them as a layer in the bottom of the slow cooker or baking tray.
Mix the garlic, macadamia nuts, and macadamia oil together in a bowl.
Rinse and dry the chicken. With a knife make a nick in the skin near the breast section. Using your fingers push your hand in between the skin and the meat to make sort of a pocket.
Stuff the macadamia nut, garlic, and oil mixture into the skin-meat pocket you just made. Massage it into the breast meat for a bit so that it coats all the meat.
Lay the chicken on the lemons in the slow cooker or tray with the breast side upwards.
Then cook for around 8 hours in the slow cooker on low. I usually add a drop of water to the slow cooker as well so that its not running completely dry. Would probably take maybe an hour in an oven depending on the size of the chicken.
It's really delicious! Om nom nom!