Chicken cooked in an Earthen Pot

This is a very old way to cook.

This Roman pots - German: Römertopf - are a nowadays rarely used pots.

I put an eggplant and fresh herbs and a couple of other things in the bottom of the earthen pot.
The big bird was filled with onion, garlic and more herbs.

recipe for 4:
1,8 kg free range chicken
1 large eggplant
3 spring onions
1 onion
5 cloves of garlic
400 ml passata
fresh herbs - more difference the better
salt and pepper
2 tbsp butter with paprika, smoked paprika and Chli Ancho
chestnut pasta

Do  NOT preheat the oven!
Water the earthen pot.
Wash the eggplant and the chicken and dry both.
Peel onion and garlic and place the whole onion and 2 cloves of garlic with half of the herbs into the bum of the chicken.
Cube the eggplant and the rest of the veggies and bottom it in the pot.
Pour the passata on top.
Season the chicken and place it on the veggies and close the lid.

 Put it into the cold oven and heat that up to 200 C fan. Cook for 80 min.
Mix butter with paprikas.
Open the lid and reduce the heat to 160 C fan and brush the butter mix on top.
Cook for 20 more min open.