Best Quick Roasted Chicken With Potatoes Onions And Watercress Recipes

ROAST CHICKEN WITH VEGETABLES AND POTATOES

Steps:

• Place chicken on a large plate and season generously with salt and pepper; cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
• Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Let chicken stand at room temperature 30 minutes. Meanwhile, toss carrots, shallots, potatoes, and lemon with 2 tablespoons oil; season with salt and pepper. Arrange in a large roasting pan, with shallots in center and carrots, potatoes, and lemon toward edges.
• Rub chicken with remaining 1 tablespoon oil, tie legs with twine, and nestle in center. Roast, flipping vegetables around edges once, until chicken is golden and a thermometer inserted into thickest part of breast (avoiding bone) registers 160 degrees, 55 to 60 minutes. Transfer chicken and lemon halves to a carving board and tent loosely with foil. Flip vegetables; return to oven and roast until caramelized and tender, 15 to 20 minutes more. Carve chicken and transfer to a platter or return to roasting pan. Sprinkle with parsley, squeeze lemon over top, and serve with vegetables.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH POTATOES AND ONIONS

Steps:

• Wash chickens; pat dry. Starting at neck end, slide fingers under breast skin. Slide 2 rosemary sprigs and several garlic slices onto each breast half. Rub outside of each chicken with 1 teaspoon sea salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Fold wing tips under; tie legs together. Wrap in plastic; chill 4 hours.
• Position 1 rack in top third and 1 rack in bottom third of oven; preheat to 375°F. Spread 1 tablespoon butter all over each chicken. Place chickens, breast side down, on rack set on large rimmed baking sheet. Pour wine and water onto baking sheet.
• Coat another large rimmed baking sheet with nonstick spray. Toss potatoes, onions, chopped rosemary, unpeeled garlic cloves, and olive oil in large bowl; spread vegetables on prepared sheet and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place chickens on top rack of oven and vegetables on bottom rack. Roast 30 minutes. Turn chickens over; stir vegetables. Roast chickens until thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 160°F, about 45 minutes longer. Let chickens rest 15 minutes. Continue roasting vegetables until brown and tender, about 30 minutes longer.
• Transfer 1 chicken to cutting board; reserve second for soup (recipe follows). Remove rack from baking sheet; scrape pan juices into small bowl. Spoon off fat. Carve chicken on cutting board; reserve carcass for soup. Arrange chicken and vegetables on platter. Serve with pan juices.

RUTH REICHL'S ROAST CHICKEN WITH POTATOES & ONIONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 deg F/200 deg Celsius.
• Wash chicken and pat dry. Remove and reserve any extra fat from inside the chicken. If there is no fat, use butter:.
• Very gently run your fingers between the breast and skin, from the neck, loosening the skin from the breast on both sides. Don't puncture the skin.
• Place the excess fat underneath the skin -- chop it up to spread evenly, if necessary. This way the chicken will baste itself.
• Puncture the lemon all over with a fork, and place inside the chicken.
• In a bowl, toss the potatoes, onion and garlic with olive oil so each piece is coated.
• Season the chicken with salt and pepper.
• (This is where I suggest something more, as few of us will find a genuinely "farm-raised" chicken. Use a good seasoning salt of your choice, and black pepper, as ordinary supermarket chickens can be very bland). Season well all over. (I would also season the cavity and then put in the lemon).
• Put the oil-coated veggies in a roasting pan and spread out. Season with salt and pepper.
• If you have a rack, put the chicken on it and jiggle things to fit over the potatoes and onion. Otherwise, just put the chicken right into the pan.
• Roast for about 1 hour (she says that, but I would roast it for not less than about 1 1/4 hours).
• Remove the pan from the oven and let rest for about 10 minutes. (I'd put it into a warming oven).
• Carve chicken into serving pieces, surround with the potatoes, onion and garlic, and squeeze the (baked) lemon over the top.

HEAVENLY HOME-STYLE ROASTED WHOLE CHICKEN AND POTATOES

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 400.
• Unwrap chicken, remove giblets (if needed), wash, and pat semi-dry.
• Spread 1 tbs butter on the bottom of shallow roasting pan.
• Place whole chicken in roasting pan, breast side up.
• Sprinkle liberally with salt.
• Spread remaining butter all over chicken.
• Sprinkle with black pepper, lemon pepper, and paparika to taste. Sprinkle with rosemary.
• Add potatoes to pan, surrounding the chicken.
• Spinkle potatoes with salt, pepper, and small amount of rosemary.
• Drizzle potatoes with olive oil.
• Place pan in oven and bake chicken and potatoes for 20 minutes.
• Remove from oven.
• Toss potatoes to turn.
• Add 1 cup water to the pan.
• Add chopped carrots and onion to pan.
• Sprinkle minced garlic over veggies and chicken.
• Drizzle carrots and onion with olive oil.
• Place pan back in oven.
• Bake for an additional 45 mins until chicken is brown and crispy, and potatoes are nicely roasted.
• Remove from oven, allowing chicken to cool.
• Carve chicken and serve with veggies (drizzle with gravy from the pan, if you like).
• NOTE: If whole chicken is over 3.5 pounds, add 8-10 mins per pound to cooking time.

QUICK ROASTED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil (using foil makes for a faster clean up).
• Pat the chicken completely dry so that the butter will stick. Using a pair of kitchen shears, cut out the back bone by cutting down each side of it to remove. Turn the chicken over and lay it out flat on the cutting board. Using both hands, press down firmly on the chicken breast to break the breast bone and flatten the chicken as best you can. Tuck the wing tips behind the wings.
• Put the chicken on the prepared baking sheet. Rub the entire skin with the butter, then sprinkle on the smoked paprika, salt and pepper and rub it in.
• Roast until a meat thermometer reads 160 degrees F, 35 to 45 minutes. Let rest before carving.