How to Prepare Italian Roast Chicken?

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Preparation:

Preparation Time: 20 mins

Cooking Time: 1 hrs 10 mins

Serving: 4

Ingredients:

• 1 x 1.7 corn fed chicken
• 2 sprigs rosemary, plus extra for potatoes
• 5 saga leaves
• 2 cloves of garlic, peeled
• 1 Chicken stock cube, dissolved in 2tp water
• 2 ripe tomatoes roughly chopped
• Aluminium foil
• 200g unsalted butter
• Leaves of 2 sprigs thyme
• Half onion
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 kg of potatoes
• 125ml white wine
• 4 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
• ground black pepper

 Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 200ºC conventional oven/ 180ºC fan-forced (400ºF/Gas 6)
2. Season the chicken with salt and freshly ground black paper inside the chicken cavity. Process until combined. Alternatively, finely chop by hand Place the rosemary thyme and saga into a food processor. Add herbs to a bowl with the butter and mix until combined. Season with salt and pepper
3. Loosen the skin over both chicken breasts by gently pushing your fingers underneath it. Push ¾ of the flavoured butter under the loosened skin so that it covers the whole breast. Rub the remaining flavoured butter over the skin of the breast and legs of the chicken.
4. Place the onion, bay leaves and lemon inside the chicken’s cavity. Place the chicken in a roasting tray on top of the garlic cloves, breast side up and drizzle with half of the olive oil. Season the outside of the chicken with salt and pepper. Then sprinkle with ariosto and pour over the chicken stock mixture. Roast for 15 minutes then removes from the oven.
5. Pour the white wine over the chicken and baste with pan juices. Then arrange the potatoes around the chicken. Reduce the heat to 180⁰C conventional oven/ 160⁰C fan-forced (350⁰ F/ Gas 4) and continue to cook, basting occasionally in pan juices, for a further 1 hour 20 minutes or until golden all over and cooked through ( the juices should run clear when a skewer is inserted into the thigh)
6. Remove the onion, lemon and bay leave the chicken’s cavity. Place the chicken on a serving dish, cover loosely with aluminium foil and set aside to rest for 10-15 minutes.
7. Serve chicken with potatoes

Posted by Aussie Meat and for this fabulous recipe, we thank Italian Spoon for the recipe link https://www.italianspoon.com.au/italian-roast-chicken/