The easiest, tastiest chicken recipe in the world!

You know the feeling….you’re starving, don’t feel like cooking but you want to eat something sensational. With a recipe this easy, there’s no more excuses.

Roasted Chicken with Thyme, Lemon and Garlic

Ingredients (and there aren’t that many!)

1 x fresh organic chicken
1 x bunch of fresh thyme
2 x lemons
1 x head of garlic
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Freshly ground black pepper
Ground rock saltYou’ll need:
1 x Mortar & Pestle
1 x Mixing Bowl
2 x Roasting Trays

Let’s get started:

1. Chop these cloves finely and throw them into the mortar and pestle.

2. Set aside the unpeeled cloves.

3. Take half the bunch of thyme and strip the leaves from the stalks and add these in with the garlic.

4. Pour 3 glugs of oil (glug, glug, glug) and juice of ½ a lemonSeason well with salt and pepperNow bruise the mixture . No anger management needed….give it a good bashing until it is well mixed together.

5. Chop your chicken into 6-8 pieces and throw it into the mixing bowl

6. Pour your mixture over the chicken

7. Massage the mixture into the chicken until it is well coated…..add another glug or two of oil if needed, cover bowl with glad wrap and stick it in the fridge for 1 hour to marinate. Make it the night before to save time and intensify the flavour.

8. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.

9. Pour yourself a large glass of chilled white wine and put your feet up…you deserve it!

10. Chop the remaining 1 ½ lemons into wedges and scatter in baking tray then pour marinated chicken pieces over the top. Season again and scatter remaining thyme stalks through the mixture.

11. Bake for 30 minutes then turn the chicken pieces over and throw in the unpeeled garlic cloves for the final 10 – 15 mins. Drizzle oil over the garlic cloves to help them crisp up and turn mushy in the middle!

12. Split the head of garlic into separate cloves and peel half of them.

Serve with large crispy potato cubes tossed in oil, fresh rosemary and pepper and steamed green vegetables and the rest of that wine you started. Roast potatoes on another tray while the chook cooks

Bon apetite’

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