Baked Chicken - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 whole chicken
3 coarsely chopped tomatoes
1 coarsely chopped onion
5 cloves garlic
5 stalks coarsely chopped celery
5 coarsely chopped carrots
1 tsp. each: salt, pepper and oregano
2 c. water
3 Tbsp. butter
3 Tbsp. white flour
1 1/2 c. beer

Preparation

In baking pan, place chopped onion with peel, garlic with peel, tomatoes, celery, carrots and water.
Salt and pepper chicken; place on top of ingredients in baking pan and bake 45 to 60 minutes in 375\u00b0 oven.
After 20 minutes, baste with beer. Baste every 1/2 hour.
Melt butter in saucepan; add sifted flour until it makes a paste.
Remove chicken from pan.
Strain stock into a bowl.
Discard used vegetables; reheat stock and add to flour paste slowly until thick and creamy.
Serve as a gravy over chicken.