Winter Is Coming…
If like me and you live in the UK winter is basically here. Longer nights, colder days and different food. One of my favourite winter foods is roasted root veg. Add some roasted meat and you’ve got a traditional British meal. This recipe combines the two into a simple one-tray roasted meal that tastes incredible. This recipe is from episode 7 of my Day of Eating video series.
Servings: 4-6
Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 45 Minutes
Bulk Ingredients:
- 1 free range chicken
- 750g potatoes
- 2 medium red onions
- 2-3 carrots
- 2-3 garlic cloves
- 2-3 tbsp olive oil
- Handful of leafy greens
Spices:
- 4 sprigs of fresh rosemary
- 1-2 tsp oregano
- Salt & pepper
Method:
Preheat the oven to 220ËšC/200ËšC Fan/gas mark 6. Prepare the potatoes, carrots, onions, leek, garlic and place into a large roasting tray.
Drizzle over a good lug of olive oil then sprinkle the oregano and salt & pepper over the entire tray.
Give the tray a good shake to distribute the veg and get everything coated. Place 2 sprigs of rosemary on top. Now for the chicken…
This chicken is prepared using the a spatchcock method to allow it to cook in the same time as the vegetables. For more information on how to spatchcock a chicken then watch this video.
Essentially remove the spine, flip it over and press on the breast to crack the sternum. Done.
Place the chicken on top of the prepared vegetables and 2 sprigs of rosemary. Dice the remaining rosemary springs and distribute on top with additional salt & pepper. Place into the over and reduce the temperature to 200ËšC/180ËšC fan/gas mark 4 for 25 minutes. Then reduce the oven temperature to 180ËšC/160ËšC fan/gas mark 3 or the remaining 20-25 minutes.
Once roasted to golden brown, remove the tray. To check the chicken is cooked, juicy should be clear or cooked to at last 70ËšC.
Portion the chicken and serve on top of the roasted vegetables with steamed greens. Enjoy!
Looks delicious!! Have to try this one! Good to see you posting it here 😉
realy good and easy recipe. The chcicken tastes perfect. But maybe I would put the onion and carrot later in the tray, so it doesn’t get roasted too much.
Anyway thank you for the recipe and the idea of preparing chicken.
Glad you enjoyed! You could or just chop into larger chunks. They should take roughly the same time to cook 🙂
Thanks for sharing the recipe with us. Question please. Is there enough calories in that dish? The chicken is around 140 cal, potatoes + carrots around 100 cal and maybe 100 cal from olive oil. Do you consider this dish a complete meal?
Hey Saif, sorry for the late reply. I guess this really depends on how much you eat. It’s quite a hard dish to count calories for 🙂
Should i add rice to this meal if I am bulking, or is this enough?
I guess you could eat half the chicken and veg which would probably good for bulking 🙂