Super-easy roast chicken and vegetables

Recipes / Meat

Get the kids involved in the kitchen with this easy and healthy roast chicken recipe.

Recipe «Super-easy roast chicken and vegetables» presented in category Recipes / Meat, to prepare this dish you will need no more 1:20 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 2kg whole chicken, 1 medium lemon, roughly chopped, 1 celery stalk, trimmed, chopped, 1 dried bay leaf, 1 tbsp olive oil , 500g chat potatoes, 3 small carrots, peeled, thickly sliced, 4 garlic cloves, peeled , 1 bunch asparagus, trimmed.

Ingredients:

  • 2kg whole chicken 
  • 1 medium lemon, roughly chopped 
  • 1 celery stalk, trimmed, chopped 
  • 1 dried bay leaf 
  • 1 tbsp olive oil 
  • 500g chat potatoes 
  • 3 small carrots, peeled, thickly sliced 
  • 4 garlic cloves, peeled 
  • 1 bunch asparagus, trimmed 

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 200°C/180°C fan-forced. Rinse chicken under cold running water. Pat dry (including cavity) with paper towel. Place in a large roasting pan. Place lemon, celery and bay leaf in chicken cavity. Drizzle chicken with oil. Season with salt and pepper. Tie legs together with kitchen string.
  2. Roast for 30 minutes. Add potatoes, carrot and garlic to pan. Roast for 50 to 55 minutes or until juices run clear when thickest part of chicken is pierced with a skewer. Add asparagus, tossing in pan juices. Roast for 5 minutes.
  3. Serve chicken with vegetables and pan juices.