Roast Chicken Very Tasty English Dish

Roast Chicken

Ingredients:

• Butter , for greasing
• Chicken  1.5kg 
• Roasting potatoes 1.0kg  halved or quartered if large
• Garlic  2 whole heads, halved through the middle
• White wine  100.0ml 
• Chicken stock  100.0ml 
• Stems rosemary 2  broken into sprigs
• bay leaves 5
• Lemon 1 cut into wedges

Method Of Cooking:

• Heat oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3.
• Brush a large roasting tin all over with butter and smear some over the skin of the chicken.
• Place the chicken in the tin and arrange the potatoes around it. 
• Put the halved garlic heads in the tin.
• Pour over the white wine and stock.
• Then cover with foil and place in the oven. 
• Cook for 1 hr then remove the foil and give the potatoes a shake. 
• Add the herbs and lemon wedges, then cook uncovered for 50 mins.
• Turn the heat up to 220C/fan 200C/gas .
• Cook for 30 mins more, then remove the chicken and potatoes from the pan.
• Cover the chicken loosely with foil and leave to rest on a plate for at least 10 mins .
• Keep the potatoes warm.

Serve with any pan juices.