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One-pot spiced roast chicken served in a casserole dish

One-pot spiced roast chicken

Name: One-pot spiced roast chicken
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 2 h 10 min
Yield: Serves 4-6
Ingredients: 1 medium chicken; 2 tbsp ghee or butter, softened; cooked pilau rice and naans to serve; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp ground coriander; 1 tsp garam masala; 1 tsp smoked paprika; 1½ tsp ground turmeric; 1 onion chopped; 4 large garlic cloves; 1-2 red chillies chopped, plus extra sliced chillies to serve; 1 large thumb-sized piece of ginger peeled and chopped; 1 tbsp sunflower oil; 2 tbsp ghee or butter; 2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes blitzed in a food processor until smooth; 2 tsp light brown soft sugar; 3-4 tbsp double cream; 30g cashew nuts toasted and chopped; small bunch of coriander plus extra leaves to serve; small bunch of mint; 1 lemon juiced; ½ tsp sugar; 70ml olive oil

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Serves 4-6

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Prep: 30 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 40 mins

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Experiment with roast chicken: stuff with a spiced butter and surround with a creamy, tikka-inspired sauce before topping with a punchy green chutney

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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1 medium chicken
2 tbsp ghee

or butter, softened
cooked pilau rice and naans

to serve

For the spice mix

1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp smoked paprika
1½ tsp ground turmeric

For the sauce

1 onion

chopped
4 large garlic cloves
1-2 red chillies

chopped, plus extra sliced chillies to serve
1 large thumb-sized piece of ginger

peeled and chopped
1 tbsp sunflower oil
2 tbsp ghee

or butter
2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes

blitzed in a food processor until smooth
2 tsp light brown soft sugar
3-4 tbsp double cream

For the chutney

30g cashew nuts

toasted and chopped
small bunch of coriander

plus extra leaves to serve
small bunch of mint
1 lemon

juiced
½ tsp sugar
70ml olive oil

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Nutrition: Per serving (6)

kcal649
fat50g
saturates18g
carbs11g
sugars9g
fibre37g
protein37g
salt1.9g

Method

step 1

Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/ gas 6. If you’re making the spice mix, combine all the ingredients and set aside. For the sauce, tip the onion, garlic, chilli and ginger into a food processor and blitz until smooth. Heat the oil and ghee or butter in a large frying pan over a medium heat and fry the spiced onion purée with a pinch of salt for 12 mins. Add 2 tbsp of the spice mix, turn up the heat to high and cook for 1 min. Tip in the tomatoes, sugar and 250ml water. Bring to a simmer. Season well with salt and turn off the heat.
step 2

To prepare the chicken, put the remaining spice mix in a bowl with 1 tsp sea salt and the ghee or butter, and mash together. Push two-thirds of the spiced butter beneath the skin of the chicken breasts, then rub the rest over the outside of the breasts and legs. Season the chicken skin with 1 tsp sea salt and tie the legs together. Sit the chicken in a 28-30cm pan, shallow casserole or roasting tin and pour the sauce around the bird. Cover the chicken with foil and roast for 40 mins, then remove the foil and roast for another 30-40 mins, or until cooked through (when you cut into one of the legs, the juices should run clear). Stir the double cream into the sauce. Taste for seasoning and leave to rest, uncovered, for 10 mins.
step 3

Make the chutney by blitzing all the ingredients together in a food processor until coarse. Season to taste.
step 4

Top the chicken with some extra sliced chillies and coriander leaves, then serve with the chutney, pilau rice and naan, if you like.

Recipe tips

CHICKEN THIGHS If you don’t fancy cooking a whole chicken, stuff the spiced butter under the skin of bone-in chicken thighs instead. Roast in the sauce for 45 mins, or until cooked through.

PLANT-BASED ALTERNATIVES For veggies or vegans, marinate a selection of root vegetables or paneer in the spice mix, then cook in the sauce in place of the chicken.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, September 2021

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