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Roast chicken
Photo: Evan Swigart from Chicago, USA, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (cropped)

Chicken Dishes · Recipe No. 371

French Roast Chicken

French Roast Chicken made with chicken, butter, freshly ground black pepper and slice of onion. The recipe serves 4; change the portions and units below and the amounts update.

  • Serves 4

Method

  1. Preheat the oven gas 6.

  2. Smear the butter all over the chicken.

  3. Season inside and out with pepper only.

  4. Put the bird breasts down into a roasting tin placing around the chicken.

  5. All the other ingredents+cup of water. (giblets remove liver).

  6. Place into oven and cook for 30 minutes.

  7. Take out of oven season with salt turn up the right way and place back in oven.

  8. Bast recently until cooked (probe temperature of 75c)

  9. Gravy take roasting tin skim off most of the oil, place the flour in to make a roux. Gradually add the stock and cook out, finish with butter just prior to service.

Tip: tap a step to tick it off as you cook.

Shopping list for 4 portions

Meat & poultry

Fruit & veg

Dairy & eggs

Tins, jars & stock

Baking

Fresh herbs

Store cupboard (check you have)

Converted from the Cookeryonline Excel workbook “sr371”.