Roasted chicken with lemon thyme and onions

Posted by: Roberta

July 22nd, 2010 >> Second Courses

I know, it’s terribly hot and the oven doesn’t help, but I had a fresh chicken coming from the chicken run of the neighbour and this tempting recipe to try out!

This one as well, like the Rhubarb and apple pie, comes from ”The CSIRO total wellbeing diet”…a never-failing cookbook!

Ingredients

Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
1 clove garlic, roughly chopped
1 tablespoon picked lemon thyme leaves
¼ cup chopped flat –leaf parsley
2 tbs olive oil
1.5 kg chicken , trimmed of fat
4 onions, peeled and halved

Method

Preheat oven to 180 °C.

Place lemon zest, lemon juice, garlic, thyme, parsley and half the oil in a food processor and blend until smooth. Grease a large ovenproof baking dish with the remaining oil; arrange chicken pieces in the dish and spoon herb mixture. Rub mixture into chicken pieces and season lightly, add onions and pumpkin to dish and cover with foil. Roast for 20 minutes. Remove foil; baste chicken with cooking juice and bake for a further 40 minutes. Serve with steamed greens or salad.

Taken from “The CSIRO total wellbeing diet”, Penguin Group, 2006.

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