Oven-baked capon is a very traditional Christmas recipe. Here we present our personal version of this classic holiday dish, but with our special “made in Marisana” touch.

A capon is a chicken (rooster) that is castrated at a young age and raised specifically for consumption. This process gives it more tender, juicy, and flavorful meat, with infiltrated fat, which is why it is usually a typical and exclusive dish for celebrations such as Christmas.

All the ingredients and steps to follow are described below, so you can easily prepare this rather labor-intensive recipe and literally amaze all your guests, who will surely be licking their fingers.

Ingredients

• 1 capon chicken

• 1 tablespoon black pepper

• 1 tablespoon sea salt

• 1 head of garlic, peeled and crushed in a mortar

• 2 onions, peeled and sliced into strips

• 2 tablespoons baking powder

• Pork fat or bacon, sliced

Stuffing

• 1 small coffee cup of chicken stock

• 1 small coffee cup of olive oil

• 1 small coffee cup of pine nuts

• 5 tablespoons of marijuana butter (our secret ingredient)

• 1 cup of chopped walnuts or another nut of your choice

• 1 chopped onion

• 1 chopped celery stalk

• 5 slices of toasted white bread, cut into small cubes

• 1 teaspoon black pepper

• 2 tablespoons chopped thyme

• Minced beef and pork (to taste and quantity)

Preliminary step: Preparing our marijuana butter

To prepare our marijuana butter, we will only need a saucepan, a strainer, and a mold-type container to pour our mixture into.

The ingredients for its preparation are simply:

• 500 ml of water

• 250 g of butter

• 25–50 g of marijuana in small buds

Step-by-step preparation of the butter

1. First of all, thoroughly grind the marijuana.

2. Heat the water in the saucepan without letting it boil. Adjust the heat if necessary so that the water does not boil, thus preventing the THC in the previously ground marijuana from degrading.

3. Add the marijuana to the saucepan and stir the mixture for about 5 to 7 minutes.

4. Add the butter to the saucepan with the water and marijuana. Stir for approximately 30 minutes so that the butter melts and mixes well with the other ingredients.

5. Strain the mixture using the strainer to separate the vegetable matter and pour the resulting liquid into the chosen mold-type container.

6. Place the container with the strained liquid in the refrigerator. Once the mixture solidifies, it will be ready for consumption.

With this simple process, we can enjoy marijuana butter and use it as a base to prepare our Christmas stuffed capon recipe—so let’s get started with the chicken.

Step-by-step recipe to prepare our stuffed capon chicken

Step 1. Rinse the capon chicken and rub it well with salt and pepper, inside and out. Once done, cover it with plastic wrap and refrigerate it for about 24 to 48 hours.

Step 2. Heat oil in a pot and add the onion and sauté it until golden. Also add the chicken stock until it reduces slightly, then remove everything and set aside.

Step 3. In the same pot, heat oil again and add the minced meat until browned, then add the pine nuts, the onion previously sautéed with the reduced chicken stock, the celery, and the chopped walnuts. Add the bread cubes and stir everything carefully, seasoning with salt, pepper, and some chicken stock.

Step 4. Preheat the oven to 175°C.

Step 5. Melt the five tablespoons of marijuana butter in a saucepan over low heat and add it to the mixture from step 3. Cook it, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes; finally add the thyme and leave it for 1 more minute.

Step 6. Remove the capon chicken from the refrigerator and place it breast-side up. Put the stuffing inside the body cavity of the chicken and rub marijuana butter under the skin. Tie the legs with kitchen twine and tuck the wings behind the back. Cover the chicken with slices of pork fat or bacon and a little salt and pepper.

Step 7. Place it in the oven for at least 4 hours. When you feel the chicken is approaching your desired level of doneness, uncover it 30 minutes before finishing so the top browns properly. Remove the bacon slices when you remove the cover as well.

At this point, all that remains is to place the chicken on a serving dish, tidy up its presentation a bit, and surprise all our guests.

Next, to ensure the recipe turns out perfectly, we show you a video in which the famous Torres brothers—Michelin Guide chefs—prepare a stuffed oven-baked capon step by step. Broadly speaking, we follow the same steps, with the logical difference of our special addition, which gives our capon its distinctive touch.

Be careful with quantities

It is very important to keep in mind that we must be very cautious with the doses of marijuana added to this recipe, as well as to any other cannabis-based cooking.

The effects of marijuana when consumed by eating or smoking are very different and vary mainly in the potency and duration of the effect, as well as in the time it takes for the effect to appear.

For this reason, we must be careful about what we ingest to avoid unpleasant experiences. To benefit from the effects of cannabis, a large quantity is not necessary, as we all want to enjoy a pleasant Christmas Eve or Christmas meal, in good spirits and with a touch of joy and fun, together with our friends and loved ones.

Enjoy your meal and Merry Christmas to everyone from MARISANA!!