Harvey's Moroccan Roast Chicken
Need a gluten free, dairy free, and whole 30 main course? Harvey's Moroccan Roast Chicken could be a great recipe to try. This recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains approximately 61g of protein, 63g of fat, and a total of 940 calories. This recipe covers 42% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have baby carrots, roasting chicken, ground allspice, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the lemons you could follow this main course with the Blackberry Lemon Chess Pie w/ Honey Jumbleberry Sauce. How I won the SF Food Wars – Pie or Die Competition as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 30 minutes.
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Mix together in a bowl the cloves, pepper, fennel, sesame seeds, coriander, cumin, allspice, nutmeg, ginger and cardamom. Set aside.
Place the paprika, lemon juice, the spice mix (from Step 2), salt, chopped mint, black pepper and garlic cloves in a blender.
Add 2 tablespoons of the olive oil and blend to until ingredients are mixed, about 6 or 8 pulses. Slowly add the additional olive oil if mixture seems too thick to spread. Blend just until mixture is a smooth paste.
Spread potatoes and carrots in a roasting pan. Rub about 1/4 of the spice paste inside the cavity of the chicken. Rub the remainder of the paste on the outside of the chicken including the underside.
Place the chicken directly on the carrots and potatoes. Pierce the 2 lemons all over with a fork, and place them into the chicken cavity.
Tent the chicken with aluminum foil. Roast approximately 2 hours until the thickest part of the thigh reaches 180 degrees F (80 degrees C) and the juices run clear.
Remove from the oven and let rest for about 10 minutes before serving.