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Ingredients

Method

  • STEP 1

    Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Snip the string or elastic off the chicken if it’s tied up, then place in a big roasting tin. Shove the lemon halves into the cavity. Rub the butter, herbs and seasoning all over the chicken. Put the potatoes and carrots around it, drizzle everything with oil, season and toss together.

  • STEP 2

    Roast for 20 mins, then turn the oven down to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and roast for 50 mins more. Stir the peas, stock and Marmite into the veg in the tin, then return to the oven for 10 mins more.

RECIPE TIPS
SPICED ROAST CHICKEN

Swap herbs for 2 tsp harissa paste

and leave out the spuds. Add stock

and peas (no Marmite) with another

2 tsp harissa. Serve with couscous.

MEDITERRANEAN CHICKEN

Leave out the carrots, then after

20 mins roasting, stir 1 aubergine,

2 red peppers and 2 red onions,

all cut into large chunks, in with the

spuds. Swap the peas for cherry

tomatoes, and replace the stock

and Marmite with 5 tbsp balsamic

vinegar and 2 tbsp honey.

CHICKEN WITH ROASTED ROOTS

Chop 1.3kg mixed peeled carrots,

parsnips, potatoes, celeriac and

swede into even-size chunks, and

roast alongside chicken as before.

Goes well with

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