Name: Garden herb chicken
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 3 bunches garden herbs we used basil, thyme and tarragon; 1.8kg chicken - the best you can buy; 1 tbsp olive oil plus extra to drizzle; 1 lemon quartered; 2 garlic cloves; 600g small potatoes unpeeled; 4 bunches of cherry tomatoes on-the-vine

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Garden herb chicken

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 15 mins

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A one-pan roast chicken that makes use of whatever herbs you have in your garden

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Ingredients

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3 bunches garden herbs

we used basil, thyme and tarragon
1.8kg chicken

- the best you can buy
1 tbsp olive oil

plus extra to drizzle
1 lemon

quartered
2 garlic cloves
600g small potatoes

unpeeled
4 bunches of cherry tomatoes

on-the-vine

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal660
fat34g
saturates10g
carbs29g
sugars3g
fibre3g
protein61g
salt0.48g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Strip all the leaves from the herb stalks then stuff the stalks into the chicken cavity with the lemon and garlic. Rub the chicken with olive oil and season. Sit it in a roomy roasting tray and place in the oven for 30 mins.
step 2

Lower oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Take the chicken out of the oven and toss the potatoes in the pan juices, then cook for a further 30 mins.
step 3

Drop bunches of tomatoes among the potatoes. Cook for 10 mins or until the tomatoes are just tender and the chicken is cooked through. Leave everything to rest for 10 mins, then scatter the chicken and potatoes with the herb leaves and a drizzle of olive oil, then serve.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, September 2011

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