Tuscan Roast Chicken With Potatoes

Name: Tuscan Roast Chicken With Potatoes
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper; 2 kilograms whole chicken, patted dry; 2 Tbsps chopped fresh rosemary; 4 cloves minced garlic; 1 lemon, quartered; 2 Tbsps olive oil, divided; 1 teaspoon paprika; 1 teaspoons salt; 680 grams (3 large) Yukon Gold potatoes, scrubbed well and cut into 1/4-inch thick slices

Tuscan Roast Chicken With Potatoes might be just the main course you are searching for. This gluten free, dairy free, and whole 30 recipe serves 4. One serving contains 1029 calories, 79g of protein, and 67g of fat. A mixture of olive oil, salt, lemon, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. To use up the lemon you could follow this main course with the Lemon Shortbread Cookies with Lemon Icing From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 with rack in bottom third. Line the bottom of a (15 1/2- x 12-inch) roasting pan with foil.

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Combine first 4 ingredients (through pepper) in a small bowl and mash into a paste.

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Pepper

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Bowl

Transfer 1 tablespoon garlic-rosemary mixture to another bowl and stir in 1 1/2 tablespoons oil.

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Rosemary

Garlic

Cooking Oil

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Bowl

Add potatoes to roasting pan with oil mixture and toss well. Arrange in a slightly overlapping layer in pan.

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Potato

Cooking Oil

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Add paprika and remaining 1/2 tablespoon oil to remaining garlic mixture. On a work surface with breast side of chicken up, tuck wings underneath. Loosen skin from top of breast and from thigh and leg. Work half of garlic mixture under skin, then rub remaining mixture over chicken.

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Whole Chicken

Paprika

Garlic

Chicken Wings

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Dry Seasoning Rub

Place lemon inside cavity.

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Lemon

Place chicken breast side up on top of potatoes.

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Potato

Roast until a meat thermometer inserted into fleshy part of thigh registers 170, 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes.

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Meat

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Transfer to a cutting board and let stand 10 minutes before carving.

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Serve chicken with pan juices and potatoes alongside.

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Potato

Whole Chicken

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Flavor Twists!

Latin-style chicken: Leave the rosemary and paprika out of the rub and swap in 1 1/2 teaspoons each dried oregano and ground cumin. Use a quartered orange instead of the lemon in the cavity; serve with wedges of fresh lime.

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Dried Oregano

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Rosemary

Whole Chicken

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Lemon

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Dry Seasoning Rub

Asian-style: Skip the olive oil, rosemary, paprika, and lemon. Instead, combine 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh ginger with garlic and 1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil.

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Lemon

Place a quartered orange in the cavity in place of the lemon. Melt together 1/3 cup apricot preserves with 2 tablespoons soy sauce and brush over chicken 20 minutes before roasting ends.

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