Best Lemon Roast Chicken And Potatoes Recipes

ROAST CHICKEN WITH POTATOES, LEMON, AND ASPARAGUS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Place potatoes and half the butter in a roasting pan; season with salt and pepper. Roast, tossing once, until potatoes are golden, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Place chicken, skin side up, on top of potatoes; season with salt and pepper. Roast until chicken begins to brown, about 20 minutes.
• Scatter asparagus, lemon, remaining butter, and thyme around chicken. Roast until asparagus is tender and chicken is opaque throughout, 5 to 15 minutes. Serve chicken, vegetables, and lemon drizzled with pan juices.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH POTATOES, LEMON, AND ASPARAGUS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 478 degrees.
• Place potatoes and half the butter in a shallow roasting pan.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Roast, tossing once, until potatoes are golden, 20-25 minutes.
• Place chicken, skin side up, on top of the potatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Roast until chicken begins to brown, about 20 minutes.
• Scatter asparagus, lemon, remaining butter, and thyme around chicken.
• Roast until asparagus is tender and chicken is cooked throughout, 5-15 minutes.
• Serve with pan juices.

LEMON ROAST CHICKEN AND POTATOES

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 180*C/350*F.
• Halve the potatoes lengthwise and then cut them into three or four wedges, so that they look like chips. I used Charlotte fingerling potatoes and they were perfect, cut into quarters.
• Throw these into a shallow roaster along with the onion wedges and the chicken.
• Mix together the mustard, lemon juice, oregano (or thyme) and olive oil to make a marinade.
• Pour over the chicken, potatoes and onions. Add the bay leaves and garlic.
• Season with salt and pepper (remembering the inside of the chicken as well as the outside)
• Rub the marinade in all over the surface of the chicken and shuffling the potatoes and onions around so that they are well coated.
• Put the reserved lemon halves inside the chicken.
• Gently pour a cup of warm water into the pan, being careful not to wash any of the marinade off of the chicken or potatoes.
• Roast for one hour. At this point the chicken should be starting to brown.
• Pour the wine over the top and turn the potatoes and onions.
• Roast for another hour, turning the chicken when it is well browned on top. Check that the potatoes are still in a little liquid, you don't want them to go dry. If they seem a bit dry add a little more hot water.
• When it is done the chicken will be golden brown and juicy and cooked through and the potatoes will be meltingly tender, with a few crisp edges. There should be a little sauce left in the roaster to serve spooned over the chicken and potatoes, but if there isn't just add a bit of hot water to the dish and scrape up the tasty bits from the bottom to make more sauce.
• Serve to a very lucky family that will be scrambling for more! If this doesn't soon become your favourite way to roast chicken I'll be a monkey's uncle!

ROAST CHICKEN WITH LEMON, ZA'ATAR, AND POTATOES

Steps:

• Several hours or the night before cooking the chicken, remove giblets from the chicken and pat the skin dry. Cut the lemon in half, and place half inside the cavity. Slice the other half crosswise as thinly as you can into four slices and insert the slices under the skin, one under each breast half and one under the fattest part of each thigh. Rub the salt and za'atar into the skin, then truss the chicken and refrigerate it for several hours or overnight.
• Remove the chicken from the fridge to bring it up to room temperature before roasting. Preheat the oven to 475°F.
• Place an elevated roasting rack in a roasting pan. Toss the quartered potatoes with a small amount of olive oil and salt (maybe even a little more za'atar) and place them in the bottom of the roasting pan, arranging them around the rack. Place the chicken on the rack, breast-side-up. If you do not have an appropriate rack, improvise with wadded up aluminum foil, or place the chicken right on the potatoes.
• Roast the chicken for 30 minutes - the skin will turn golden and may start to blister. Remove from the oven and flip the chicken onto its breast. Turn the potatoes, put the pan back into the oven and roast for 15 minutes more, then remove the pan from the oven, turn the potatoes again if needed, and turn the chicken onto its back for 5-10 more minutes to crisp the skin. Carefully tilt the chicken so that the juices that have accumulated into the cavity run out into the pan - the chicken is done when the juice runs clear and has no trace of red.
• Remove the chicken from the oven and let rest for 15 minutes before carving.