Anybody got a decent roast chicken recipe

katy323

Not sure if it's the right section but we're trying to get our 9 year old girl into eating chicken and would like a recipe for making it taste nice!

With me not being the best cook I wouldn't have a clue on flavouring it etc and would just end up putting it in the oven and would be very dry, tasteless.

Was hoping some kind folk could pass on a tasty recipe to stop me trawling gordon ramsay/jamie oliver type websites.

Any help much appreciated.

POPPYOSCAR

Have you tried the roasting bags?

They are not expensive about £1 for 8 I think.

We use them all the time. You just put the chicken in the bag tie up the end and make a couple of slits in the top for the steam to escape.

It makes the chicken really juicy, never dry and my children always say how nice it tastes. You can use the juices from the bag to pour over the potatoes when roasting and/or making gravy.

mwddrwg

We get a bag of ready cooked chicken bits from Aldi and put them in a casserole dish with half a jar of Asda barbecue sauce. You could put peppers, onions, mushrooms in as well to bulk it out, but the kids love the taste of the sauce with the chicken. Have it with home made chips. Yum!

computerfixer

Hi,

I sometimes make roast chicken like this -

Push hands right under skin on breasts and put some butter and herbs right in (sage, rosemary, tyme, parsley etc mixed with a tiny bit salt and bit if pepper and some garlic and lemon if liked)

cover whole bird with same mix

pluce bird breast side down on a wire rack in your roaster and covered with foil for half cooking time then right way up still covered untill last 20 min or so so the skin will crisp up

Also nice to try a little paprika or cayenne pepper on the skin, looks lovely and is very tasty especially if its a little crispy

Hope you enjoy

Joe.

katy323

Great ideas will try thanks v much!

What brand are the bags btw? I've seen some on tv advertised lately.

Any

You might be putting it into the oven for too long, that is why it is dry.

The easiest recipe I can give you.

Take roasting tray. Put in little pool of olive oil (like 3 table spoons of oil). Get the chicken and bath it in the pool (turn it round in it few times, don't worry to get your hands dirty, massage it).

Stick half a lemon or whole onion into the chicken (this will keep it moist). If you like garlic, take 1-2 moons and stick little sharp knife into the space between chicken leg and body to make incision and stick the garlic in there.

Salt and pepper the chicken. It will stick nicely thanks to that oil.

Stick it into the preheated oven (I go for 180-200C). After about an hour, stick knife/sharp stick into the thickest part of chicken and see whether juices are running clear - that is ready then. I recknon I leave my chicken in 1hr-1hr 20 min. Depends also on the size of chicken, but I cook for 2 so smallish one.

Take the chicken out, hold above the tray and let as much juices as you can out. Put on the side to rest, cover with tin foil. Bring the juices in the tray to boil, add water and Bisto chicken gravy granules and cook for few minutes until they disolve. Sieve it into gravy jug.

Carve chicken and serve. Job done.

Children usually like gravy. They don't like dry food. With this simple recipe you cannot go wrong, whether you are good or bad cook. Just have some confidence!!

Then you can start playing with spices etc. To change taste a bit. But step one is to learn to get the chicken right.

POPPYOSCAR

katy323 wrote: »

Great ideas will try thanks v much!

What brand are the bags btw? I've seen some on tv advertised lately.

I know the ones you mean, they have something in them to flavour the chicken. The ones I use are just roasting bags but they make the chicken very tasty and juicy anyway even with nothing added(healthier as it cooks in its own juices no need to add any fat/oil.)

The supermarkets do their own. The ones I am using at the moment are from Sainsbury but I think I have used Bacofoil, Sealapack and I know Asda do them as well.

laura1976

pierce a lemon all over and pop it inside with a few cloves of garlic, then just season the chicky and shove it in the oven, you can squish the cooked garlic after and add it to the gravy yum. The lemon flavour squirts out from inside as it cooks and keeps it nice and moist, it also looks really funny when you're carving the meat:)

Clowance

For the moistest chicken you will ever taste - cook in a covered dish like an enamel dutch oven with about an inch of water for it to sit in. "Roast" with lid on for the usual time - I find about 2 hours to be safe - remove and carve and then strain the fat off the stock in the bottom, reboil and add gravy granules for lovely gravy. HTH

teagan1966

i love chicken , so mite use some of the ideas myself

karl-123

asda sell roasting bags ten for a pound i have used them for years
i think e bay sell them as well
my local butcher sells (marinated) organic chicken portions in trays
enough thighs and legs to feed a 3 or 4 people three trays for £5
it melts in your mouth my favorites are mexican spiced and lemon pepper...siya karl x
6 portions per tray...