Roast chicken with salsa & garlic mash

Name: Roast chicken with salsa & garlic mash
Prep time: 1 h 5 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 6 chicken legs or 12 thighs, or a mixture of both; 8 unpeeled garlic cloves; 5 Tbsps olive oil; 3 leaves few bay plus extra for decorating, if you like; 200 grams stoned green olives; 2 small bunches flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped; 2 zest oranges, juice 1½ oranges; 1 juice lemon; 2 red chillies, deseeded, finely chopped; 3 tubs ready-made mashed potato from a supermarket, about 450g per pack

If you want to add more gluten free, dairy free, whole 30, and דל פחמימות, recipes to your recipe box, Roast chicken with salsa & garlic mash might be a recipe you should try. One portion of this dish contains roughly 22g of protein, 37g of fat, and a total of 451 calories. For $1.16 per serving, you get a main course that serves 6. It is a budget friendly recipe for fans of Mexican food. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 5 minutes. Head to the store and pick up chicken legs, garlic cloves, juice of lemon, and a few other things to make it today. Roast Sweet Potato, Squash and Garlic Mash, Roast Chicken with Cumin and Cilantro Scallion Salsa, and Chargrilled Sirloin With Mash and Salsa Verde are very similar to this recipe.

Instructions

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas

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Oven

Mix the chicken and garlic with 1 tbsp oil in a shallow roasting tin, then poke around a few bay leaves.

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Bay Leaves

Whole Chicken

Garlic

Cooking Oil

Sprinkle tsp black pepper and tsp sea salt over the chicken pieces and roast for 30 mins. After 30 mins, fish out the garlic, increase the oven temperature to 220C/200C fan/gas 7 and roast the chicken for 15-20 mins more until golden, crispy and cooked through.

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Chicken Pieces

Black Pepper

Sea Salt

Whole Chicken

Garlic

Fish

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Oven

While the chicken is cooking, pulse the olives in a food processor to roughly chop, then scrape into a serving bowl.

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Whole Chicken

Olives

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Food Processor

Bowl

Add the flat-leaf parsley, chillies, orange zest, orange juice, lemon juice, remaining olive oil and some seasoning. Set aside at room temperature until ready to serve.

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Flat Leaf Parsley

Orange Juice

Lemon Juice

Orange Zest

Olive Oil

Seasoning

Chili Pepper

Squeeze the roasted garlic cloves out of their skins and mash with a fork. About 10 mins before you want to serve, heat the mash in a pan or microwave 3 packs will take about 8-10 mins on High. When hot, empty into a serving dish, stir in the mashed garlic and serve with the roast chicken, olive salsa and some salad leaves, dressed with the juice of the remaining half lemon.

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Roasted Garlic

Roasted Chicken

Clove

Garlic

Juice

Lemon

Olives

Salsa

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Microwave

Frying Pan

Equipment

Ingredients

Servings:

chicken legs or 12 thighs, or a mixture of both 8

unpeeled garlic cloves 5Tbsps

olive oil 3leaves

few bay plus extra for decorating, if you like 200grams

stoned green olives 2small bunches

flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 2

zest oranges, juice 1½ oranges 1

juice lemon 2

red chillies, deseeded, finely chopped 3tubs

ready-made mashed potato from a supermarket, about 450g per pack

Recommended wine: Pinot Noir, Riesling, Sparkling Rose

Mexican can be paired with Pinot Noir, Riesling, and Sparkling rosé. Acidic white wines like riesling or low-tannin reds like pinot noir can work well with Mexican dishes. Sparkling rosé is a safe pairing too. You could try Tudor Wines Balo Vineyard Pinot Noir. Reviewers quite like it with a 5 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 68 dollars per bottle.