This chicken can be served as a traditional roast one night and leftovers as pulled chicken tacos the next.
Slow-roasted chicken
1 | Whole chicken, 1.1 kg (Main) |
¼ cup | Dark cane sugar |
1 ½ tsp | Ground chilli |
2 cloves | Garlic, crushed |
½ tsp | Mustard powder |
1 cup | Tomato sauce |
2 Tbsp | Cider vinegar |
2 tsp | Worcestershire sauce |
Tacos
8 | Soft tacos (Main) |
2 cups | Cabbages, or lettuce, finely shredded |
1 | Red capsicum, seeded and julienned |
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Directions
- Season the chicken inside and out with salt and pepper. Place in a slow-cooker, breast side up.
- Combine the sugar, chilli, garlic, mustard powder, tomato sauce, vinegar and Worcestershire sauce. Pour over the chicken. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours or until the flesh pulls away from the bones easily.
- Remove the chicken and shred the flesh. Place back in the cooker and heat through in the juices.
- Heat the taco shells according to the packet instructions. Fill with the cabbage, capsicum and pulled chicken.
- Great dusted with paprika and garnished with basil or parsley.