Roast Chicken with Sweet Potatoes and Apples

Name: Roast Chicken with Sweet Potatoes and Apples
Prep time: 2 h 20 min
Cook time: 2 h 20 min
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters firmly packed dark brown sugar; 59 milliliters butter, melted; 118 milliliters butter, softened; 2 garlic cloves, minced; 2 larges Granny Smith apples; 1 teaspoon kosher salt, divided; 1 lemon; 1 teaspoon pepper, divided; 1 large sweet potato; 3 fresh thyme sprigs; 2 kilograms whole chicken

Roast Chicken with Sweet Potatoes and Apples is a gluten free main course. This recipe covers 15% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 515 calories, 26g of protein, and 38g of fat. This recipe serves 8. If you have garlic cloves, pepper, kosher salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 42

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Oven

Grate 2 tsp.zest from lemon; reserve lemon.

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Lemon

Combine zest, softened butter, garlic, and 1/2 tsp. each salt and pepper. Discard neck and giblets from chicken. Rinse chicken; pat dry. Loosen and lift skin from breast. (Do not totally detach.)

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Salt And Pepper

Whole Chicken

Butter

Garlic

Spread half of butter mixture under skin; place thyme under skin. Replace skin.

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Butter

Spread

Thyme

Cut reserved lemon in half; squeeze juice into cavity.

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Juice

Lemon

Place lemon in cavity. Tie legs together with kitchen string; tuck wingtips under. Rub remaining butter mixture over chicken; sprinkle with remaining 1/2 tsp. each salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Whole Chicken

Butter

Lemon

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Kitchen Twine

Place, breast side up, on a greased rack in a greased roasting pan.

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Roasting Pan

Bake chicken at 425 for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, peel sweet potato and apples.

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Sweet Potato

Whole Chicken

Apple

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Oven

Cut sweet potato into 1/4-inch-thick half moons and apples into 1/4-inch-thick wedges. Arrange half of sweet potatoes in a 9-inch gratin dish.

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Sweet Potato

Apple

Sprinkle with 1 Tbsp. brown sugar. Arrange apples in a single layer over sweet potatoes; sprinkle with 1 Tbsp. brown sugar. Top with remaining sweet potatoes; sprinkle with remaining 2 Tbsp. brown sugar.

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Sweet Potato

Brown Sugar

Apple

Drizzle with 1/4 cup melted butter.

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Butter

Add salt and pepper to taste. Cover with foil.

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Salt And Pepper

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Aluminum Foil

Reduce oven temperature to 35

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Oven

Bake chicken 15 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

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Oven

Add potato mixture to oven.

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Potato

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Oven

Bake chicken and potato mixture at the same time 35 minutes. Uncover potato mixture, and bake chicken and potato mixture 40 minutes or until a meat thermometer inserted into chicken thigh registers 180 and potatoes and apples are tender.

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Chicken Thighs