Slow-roast chicken with homemade gravy

Name: Slow-roast chicken with homemade gravy
Prep time: 2 h 50 min
Cook time: 2 h 50 min
Total time: 2 h 50 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 kgs chicken; 50 grams soft butter; 2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves (or use 1 tsp dried), plus sprigs to serve; 1 lemon; 1 liter chicken stock; 2 Tbsps flour; 1 teaspoon Marmite, if you have it in your storecupboard

Slow-roast chicken with homemade gravy is a main course that serves 6. One portion of this dish contains around 35g of protein, 33g of fat, and a total of 480 calories. This recipe covers 18% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 125 people found this recipe to be scrumptious and satisfying. If you have chicken stock, flour, thyme leaves, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 50 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and put the chicken in a roasting tin.

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Whole Chicken

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Oven

Put the butter into a small bowl and add the herbs and plenty of seasoning. Grate in the zest from the lemon and mash everything together with the butter using a fork. Rub this over the chicken breasts, legs and wings, then push the whole grated lemon into the big cavity of the chicken.

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Chicken Breast

Dry Seasoning Rub

Whole Chicken

Butter

Herbs

Lemon

Chicken Wings

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Bowl

Pour half the stock into the tin. Use a large sheet of tin foil (or a couple of smaller pieces) to cover the chicken and scrunch together the foil along the edges of the tin so the whole thing is sealed. Put in the oven and set your timer for 2 hrs.

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Whole Chicken

Stock

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Kitchen Timer

Aluminum Foil

Oven

Carefully remove the foil from the chicken, increase oven to 220C/200C fan/ gas 7, and put the chicken back in for another 30 mins. If youre making the Crunchy roast potatoes (see 'Goes well with'), put them in now, under the chicken. After 30 mins, take the chicken out of the oven and lift it onto a serving dish (move the potatoes up). Snugly cover the chicken with foil and set aside while you make the gravy.

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Potato

Whole Chicken

Gravy

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Aluminum Foil

Oven

Tip the chicken juices and stock from the tin into a jug.

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Whole Chicken

Stock

Put the tin over a medium heat on your hob and use a wooden spoon to stir in the flour and Marmite, if using, with a splash of the juices to make a paste. If you want, spoon the fat off the top of the chicken juices in the jug, then gradually stir this into the tin to make a smooth gravy.

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Whole Chicken

Marmite