Delicious roast chicken

Happy new year everyone! It's a new year, a new flat and a new kitchen for me and I'm looking forward to catching up with my cooking and blog.. Lets hope I get you all drooling with this recipe!

I made a roast chicken following a recipe from here: www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/perfect-roast-chicken

My dad is an amazing self taught cook, and he told me to ALWAYS buy free range or organic chicken.. It's just worth paying that little bit extra for what will make an incredible difference to your meal. So following his advice I got a corn fed chicken which I am guessing had a happy life :-)

List of ingredients:

• 1.3 kg chicken
• 2 onions
• 2 carrots
• 2 sticks celery
• 1 bulb garlic
• olive oil
• sea salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 1 lemon
• 1 small bunch fresh thyme and rosemary & potatoes

So first things first... Take your chicken out of the fridge 30 minutes before it goes into the oven. Preheat your oven to 240°C/475°F/gas 9.

All the ingredients together (apart from the olive oil, salt, pepper and potatoes)

Prepare the vegetables

Roughly chop them

Place all the vegetables and garlic into the middle of a large roasting tray and drizzle with olive oil.

Drizzle the chicken with olive oil and season well with salt and pepper, rubbing it all over the bird.

 

Carefully prick the lemon all over, using the tip of a sharp knife. Put the lemon inside the chicken's cavity, with the bunch of herbs.

Place the chicken on top of the vegetables in the roasting tray and put it into the preheated oven. Turn the heat down immediately to 200°C/400°F/gas 6 and cook the chicken for 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Chop up the potatoes and place them in a baking tray and drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper and place in the oven for 45 minutes.

This is it half way through cooking. Baste the chicken now and if the vegetables look dry, add a splash of water to the tray to stop them burning.

And there you go!

Καλἠ ὀρεξη!!!!