Sunday Roasted Chicken and Potato’s
Sunday Roasted Chicken and Potato’s recipe. Best family meal for lunch or dinner and Thanksgiving or Christmas with gravy and vegetables.
- Prep Time: 30 min
- Cook Time: 60 min
- Total Time: 90 min
- Yield: 6
- Category: lunch, dinner, meals family
- Method: oven roasted
- Cuisine: South african
Ingredients
- 1 x whole Chicken
- 6 x peeled potato’s cut into thirds
- 2 x onions (cut or slices)
- 1 x lemon
- Rosemary (dried)
- Fennel (dried)
- Salt and pepper
- Garlic (dried or crushed cloves)
- Worcestershire sauce or soya sauce.
- Olive oil
Instructions
- Clean and baste the chicken with olive oil then spice the chicken and insert half a lemon inside with some garlic and a piece of onion.(I use plenty garlic).
- Heat the oven ready to roast at 180 Deg. C.
- Peel or clean your potato’s cut them into thirds if they are large then quarters. (depends how you would like to eat them) Soak them in water for at least an hour before you roast them to remove the starch.
- Add olive oil to roasting pan and place the chicken in the middle then add the potato’s around the chicken in the olive oil.
- Add your cut up onions between the potato’s then sprinkle your dried fennel garlic and salt and pepper over the chicken. Not on the potato´s. Than drizzle your Worcestershire sauce or soya sauce over the potato’s and chicken.
- Roast for almost a half an hour then turn the chicken and potato’s over to brown on the other side.
- At this stage you can baste and drizzle more sauces and olive oil over the chicken to keep moist.
- Roast further until done. Should take an hour in a normal oven.
- Check regularly by the inner leg of the chicken to see if it is cooked. (no red meat showing) The potato’s should be soft and brown.
- Make the gravy. Roast vegetables with the roast in another pan or dish in the oven.
Notes
When all has been roasted, remove the oil from the pan and leave the little pieces of onion and roasted potato stuck to the roasting pan. Return the pan to a stove top and pour some hot water in to make a gravy. Mix Mazena (cornflour) Bisto gravy powder in a paste and stir into the boiled roasting pan to make a tasty gravy for the meal.