On Sunday morning before venturing off to the 9 o’clock mass, I turned to Chris and said, “Can it be a roast chicken Sunday?”
He laughed, smiled and said, “I was JUST about to ask you the same thing.”
Roast Chicken Dinner by Mr. Stowed Stuff is one of my all time favorite meals – EVER.
The house smells SO GOOD when this bird is in the oven along with a few of our favorite vegetables. If this meal doesn’t scream fall is here, I don’t know what does.
Ingredients
- 1 chicken (6-8 lbs)
- 1 yellow onion, quartered
- 2 Tbsp butter (melted)
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 3 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 lbs white or red potatoes (fingerlings work great if available)
- 6 large carrots (always use more than you think, they shrink a lot)
- Giblets from chicken
- 1/2 chicken bouillon cube
- Water
- 1 Tbsp corn starch
- Freshly ground pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 F.
- Remove bag of giblets from cavity and set aside.
- Rinse chicken inside and out and pat dry. If there's time, let the chicken stand at room temperature for 1 to 2 hours, or until it reaches room temperature.
- Generously season the cavity with salt and pepper.
- Rub the outside of the chicken with salt and pepper.
- Put 1/2 of the quartered onion and the smashed garlic clove in the cavity of the chicken.
- Place chicken in roasting pan (on a roasting rack if you have one).
- Truss the chicken (tuck wings under and tie legs together).
- Brush the chicken with melted butter and sprinkle with more pepper and salt to taste.
- Wash the potatoes and pat dry.
- Cut the potatoes into approximately 1-2 inch chunks.
- Peel the carrots and cut into 2 inch chunks.
- Place the other 1/2 of the quartered onion, the potatoes and the carrots in the roasting pan around the chicken.
- Drizzle the olive oil over the vegetables.
- Put the chicken in the oven and roast for 15 minutes.
- Reduce the heat to 350 F and roast for 20 minutes per pound (or until the temperature registers 160 F in the thigh and under the breast).
- Heat 1/2 Tbsp olive oil over medium heat in a small saucepan.
- Add the giblets and cook until lightly browned.
- Add water to cover giblets.
- Bring to a boil and simmer covered over low heat while the chicken roasts.
- Strain giblet stock, return to saucepan, and add the chicken bouillon.
- Remove the meat from the chicken neck and chop the liver.
- Return the neck meat and liver to the saucepan.
- Blend with a stick blender or in a regular blender.
- Remove half a cup of stock to a small bowl and mix with a tablespoon of corn starch.
- Return corn starch and stock mixture to saucepan and whisk until thickened over medium heat.
- Take roasting pan out of the oven and remove the chicken to a platter to rest, covered in foil for 20 minutes.
- Place roasting pan on stove over medium heat and finish browning vegetables (remove excess fat from pan, if necessary).
- Carve the chicken into serving pieces, arrange over the vegetables and enjoy!
Notes
The carrots will be delicious. Make more of them than you think you'll need. The leftover chicken and vegetables can be made into a wonderful chicken pot pie the next day.
Well, I’m hungry, what time can we expect to come over for that delicious bird… Oh we missed it. Dang.
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Can I just bring the kids over and eat at your house? Between this and Ben’s pork recipe, I’m starving!
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Yum! I haven’t roasted a chicken in forever! I need to do it again! I admit, I usually cheat and do it in the crockpot!
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A roast chicken is one of our favorite fall meals too and yes, I always make plenty of carrots because they’re quite popular in our house!
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I really need to stop reading food blogs late at night! I love the smell of chicken and veggies roasting! I think this one will make the dinner plan!
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Yum! Whenever we want roast chicken we opt for the lazy way out and get one from Costco— It may or may not already be in the plan for this week! 🙂
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