Roast chicken with lemon & oregano

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Roast chicken with lemon & oregano

This roast chicken recipe takes our favourite weeknight dinner down a Greek road with the addition of lemon and oregano and couldn’t be simpler to make. As with most of my roast chicken recipes, I like to make a flavour-packed cooking stock to cook the bird in thereby making a delicious pan gravy all at the same time. It also ensures the chicken remains super succulent until the end.

Roast chicken with lemon & oregano

This recipe was originally made for Le Crueset to showcase a few of their stunning kitchen pieces including this featured cast iron roaster in cotton colour. I mean. It’s the perfect dish to take directly from the oven to the table. I’m obsessed with my Le Creuset cast iron range and see them as investment pieces that will last through my life and my the next generation who inherit them.

Roast chicken with lemon & oregano

Roast chicken with lemon & oregano

Roast chicken with lemon & oregano

Roast chicken with lemon & oregano

Roast chicken with lemon & oregano

Roast chicken with lemon & oregano

Roast chicken with lemon & oregano

**Just a note on the fresh lemon slices in the pan. I always love to add these but from time to time I get a lemon that imparts a strong bitter flavour to the pan gravy so to err on the side of caution, I would say leave the fresh lemon slices out. The cooking liquid has enough lemon juice in to keep things very vibrant. 

Recipe – Serves 4

Roast chicken with lemon & oregano

A succulent and juicy roast chicken with lemon and oregano.
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Roast chicken with lemon & oregano
Prep Time:10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 free-range chicken
  • 400 ml strong chicken stock
  • 1/3 cup 80ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 2 Tbsp chopped oregano
  • 2 Tbs chopped flat leaf parsley
  • 4 cloves of garlic crushed
  • 1 tsp of Dijon mustard
  • 2 – 3 Tbs olive oil
  • salt and pepper

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 200C / 400F
  • Place the chicken in a deep-sided roasting pan so that it fits quite snugly.
  • Mix all the liquid, mustard, garlic and herbs together and pour this sauce over the chicken and into the cavity. The liquid will seem like quite a lot but it thickens up during the cooking to make a sauce.
  • Drizzle over the olive oil and season the bird with salt and pepper and roast uncovered for 1 1/2 hours and until the chickens are cooked. You can turn them over halfway so that the underside gets golden brown and crispy too. A good idea is to start the cooking with the breast side down and then flip it halfway and give it a baste.
  • The pan juices make delicious gravy to pour over the chicken.
Servings: 4
Author: Sam Linsell

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3 Comments

  1. Hi Sam. Not sure if this is the right place to comment on a recommendation you made as regards a Chinese supermarket, namely the supermarket at the N1 shopping centre. I thought it was very disappointing. They had a very poor selection of groceries, with plenty stock outs. Are there any other Chinese supermarket that you or any of your subscribers can recommend in Western Cape?? Also what good Chinese restaurants. I have not found any supermarkets or restaurants that compare with those in JHB. Look forward to hearing

  2. HI, Tony, that supermarket has changed a lot since I first wrote about it 8 or so years ago. These things happen. I cannot go back and edit everything I’ve written as I have around 2000 posts on this blog. I now shop at a small local Asian supermarket in Sea Point near Arthur Road on Main called New Asian Spice Supermarket and I love all that they offer. They pretty much have everything I need including fresh produce. I find this the best store in sea POint even though it is small and the owner is very friendly. He supplies a lot of restaurants too. Mainland China in Claremont is also very good but there really are so many now compared to a few years ago.

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