Baked Chicken With Crawfish Stuffing

Ingredients: 

• 1 (8-lb) baking hen
• ½ lb ground pork
• ½ lb ground beef
• 1 cup onions, chopped
• 1 cup red or green bell peppers, chopped
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 lb crawfish
• 1 Tbsp salt
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 1 tsp cayenne pepper
• 8 oz Italian bread crumbs
• 4 sprigs parsley 

Steps:

Preheat oven to 375 F. Apply salt and pepper to outside of chicken and put in baking pan. Mix pork, beef and crawfish in medium mixing bowl. Add onions, bell peppers and garlic. Add ½ Tbsp salt, ½ tsp black pepper and ½ tsp cayenne pepper. Mix well with bread crumbs. Stuff crawfish stuffing inside of chicken. Sprinkle remaining salt and pepper around outside of chicken in pan. Baste every ½ hour for 2 ½ hours or until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees. Serves 6.