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  • 35 mins
  • 1 main ingredient
  • 35 mins
  • 1 main ingredient

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Roast Chicken & Vegetables

If you have time, cook a whole chicken so you have extra for another meal in the week. Could be lunch one day, or eaten cold one evening with some fresh veggies or made into a Caesar salad?

Alternatively, make this a tray bake/ one pot dinner and roast some chicken pieces at the same time as the veggies.

What you'll need

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 5-6 thighs if making a tray bake... It seems a lot, but the leftovers come in useful, especially if it's a busy week.

Main ingredients

  • Chicken, roasted whole, or breasts/ thighs

Fresh/ frozen

  • Celeriac or cauliflower, peeled & sliced/ florets
  • Tenderstem or broccoli
  • Red pepper, cut into strips
  • Leeks, 1 x sliced into rounds

Store cupboard

  • Salt & pepper, to taste
  • Olive oil, 1-2 tbsp
  • Chilli flakes, ½ tsp (optional)

What to do

1. While the chicken's cooking;
wash and chop the vegetables for roasting. Lay them out on a roasting tray, season with salt & pepper and drizzle with olive oil - if you like some heat, sprinkle ½ tsp chilli flakes over.

2. 30 or 40 minutes before the chicken will be ready, pop the tray of veggies onto the lower oven shelf to cook - these usually take a good 30 minutes to cook through.

3. If you fancy a quick sauce... Strain the fat from the cooking juices, add a dash of hot water to the golden juicy-ness, stir through and allow to reduce/ thicken up a little. Spoon over the chicken just before serving. I didn't, but you could add a dash of cream to the sauce too if you fancied...

4. Serve up and enjoy!

Swaps

Don't have a leek but have an onion? No worries use that instead! Don't have celeriac but have some butternut squash or cauliflower? Go for it! Both will be delicious!

Veggies ready for roasting

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. You don't need to follow our guides to the word.