Baked Chicken Breast |
Ingredients
- 2 carrots
- 2 sticks celery
- 1 bulb garlic
- olive oil
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1 lemon
- 1.6 kg higher-welfare chicken
- 2 medium onions
- 1 small bunch fresh thyme, bay or sage, rosemary or a mixture,
Method : You should pile the garlic and vegetable into roasting tray and then drizzle it with olive oil. You should drizzle the chicken with olive oil that is going to be seasoned with pepper and salt. Add the lemon on the chicken to get the flavour out.
You should add the chicken on the vegetable that is in the roasting tray and preheat the oven. Turn the heat down to 200°C/400°F/gas 6 and cook the chicken for 1 hour and 20 minutes. If you're doing roast potatoes and veggies, this is the time to crack on with them – get them into the oven for the last 45 minutes of cooking.
Baste the chicken halfway through cooking and if the veg look dry, add a splash of water to the tray to stop them burning. When cooked, take the tray out of the oven and transfer the chicken to a board to rest for 15 minutes or so. Cover it with a layer of tinfoil and a tea towel and put aside. Now is the time to make your gravy.