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  • 25 mins
  • 4-5 fresh ingredients
  • 25 mins
  • 4-5 fresh ingredients

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Roast Chicken & Purple Slaw

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 slaw...

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'll use up any leftovers for lunch in the week.

  • Chicken

For the purple slaw

  • ¼ red cabbage
  • ¼ white cabbage
  • ¼ or ½ red onion
  • Fresh coriander
  • Juice of ½ or a whole lime
  • 2 or 3 dollops of Greek yoghurt
  • Salt & pepper

What to do

1. While the chicken is cooking and resting, prepare the slaw. Finely slice (I use a mandolin) the cabbage, red onion and as much roughly chopped coriander as you like. Mix in a large bowl with the lime juice, enough Greek yoghurt to fully coat everything, season with some salt & pepper and set aside, allow the flavours to mingle.

2. You could also serve this up with some salad or greens of your choice.

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'. 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 slaw. No red cabbage? Just use white. You don't need to follow our guides to the word.
  • 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!