- 25 mins
- 2 main ingredients
- 25 mins
- 2 main ingredients
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Roast Chicken & Salad
Roast a whole chicken to feed friends & family, or to have extra for another meal in the week.
Pan fry chicken breasts or thighs if that's what you've got in or can get hold of. It's quicker than roasting a whole chicken too!
What you'll need
Food quantities and how much you'll need depend on a lot... How many you're feeding, how much you like cucumber, which type of tomatoes you have - are they the big beefy type or little cherry ones?
We're 2 in our household, I'm roasting a whole chicken for this. In my oven this usually takes around 1hr 15mins on 180 fan, I take the chicken out of the fridge for 10-15 minutes while the oven is reaching temp.
I'd probably cook 3 or 4 chicken breasts, or 6 thighs. It seems a lot, but I'm cooking just once and eating twice (will use any leftover chicken for a lunch plate in the week).
- Chicken
- Lettuce
- Cucumber
- Tomatoes
- Avocado
For the salad dressing
- Olive oil
- White wine vinegar
- Dijon mustard
- Finely chopped shallot
- Salt & pepper
What to do
1. While the chicken's cooking;
wash, chop and assemble the salad.
2. Make up the salad dressing;
In a jar, bowl or bullet style blender add 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil. 2 tablespoons of white wine vinegar. 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard. Salt and black pepper to taste. Shake/ mix/ blend well to emulsify the ingredients. Pour over the salad.
3. Plate up, or take to the table so everyone can help themselves!
Swaps
Don't have avocado, or you do but it's not quite ripe yet? No worries, just leave it out this time.
No shallot? Add sliced red onion or spring onion to the salad instead - if you have it!
No white wine vinegar? Use lemon juice or red wine vinegar.
notes & tips
- cooking chicken roasting a whole chicken typically takes an hour and 20 minutes on 180 fan. But, this will depend on your oven, whether the chicken was at room temperature, how big it is.
- 75 degrees this is the temperature at which chicken is cooked. Insert a food thermometer into the thickest part of the meat. If it's at 75 degrees, it can come out of the oven/ off the heat and left to rest.
- ingredients or 'what you'll need' as we prefer to say. Our meal inspo, is just that - we encourage you to use what you have, what you like to eat. Fancy some red pepper? Throw some in your salad. You don't need to follow our guides to the word.
- salad dressing these can be as simple as a drizzle of olive oil and a squeeze of lemon juice, so if that's all you have... that's absolutely fine.
- what we're saying is that you don't need to make a special trip to the shop if you get home and realise you're missing an ingredient. Use up what you have.
- no time to cook chicken you could pick up a ready roasted chicken, if it makes life easier or you're on the hop, but cooking your own will be much nicer!
