ROAST CHICKEN WITH ROASTED POTATOES AND GARLIC SAUCE

Roast Chicken with Roasted Potatoes and garlic sauce – an all time favorite Sunday supper at my house. A delicious and juicy roast chicken served with perfectly roasted potatoes and an easy garlic sauce that’s to die for. Can’t get any simpler and more delicious than this.

This roast chicken with roasted potatoes and garlic sauce is by far my favorite Sunday dinner meal. Once you’ve had roasted potatoes this way, you’ll never want to have them any other way. I made them with this garlic sauce and you roast them in the garlic sauce and oh boy! First of all your house will smell fantastic, you’ll get all the dogs and neighbours at your door because they’ll want a piece of that something you have in your oven.

You might say by now that I’m obsessed with garlic sauce, and you may be right. I love garlic, and I’ll put garlic in anything I cook. But this is the kind of dinner that my mom put on our table every single Sunday, and while I may not make this every weekend now, whenever I do, it’s like a treat. Of course you can make a salad with this heavenly meal, but you won’t need a salad if you make the garlic sauce, which I have to say it’s a very traditional Romanian sauce for any roasted meat and potatoes.

I won’t lie to you, you’ll have a really nice garlic breath after, but if it’s both you and your significant other eating this, you got nothing to worry about. So let’s start this thing. First we make the garlic sauce because you want to get it out of the way and because you’ll need it for the potatoes.

Now here’s how you do this, you’ll need a mortar and pestle to crush and grind the garlic, but if you don’t have any, you can use a regulargarlic press. You’ll need a whole head or bulb of garlic, so clean that up, put it in the mortar and pestle, and add about 1/2 tsp of salt to it. Now take your frustrations on that poor garlic and crush away at it until it looks like a paste.

To the mortar add a tablespoon of olive oil then about 1/4 cup of cold water and mix everything well together. This is all you need to do for this sauce.

Ok, next we make a bit of dry rub for the chicken. Basic rub, garlic powder, paprika, salt, pepper, basil, onion powder. Mix everything together, then rub all over the chicken.

Place the chicken in a roasted pan and cover the chicken with aluminum foil and bake in the oven at 375 F degrees for about 2 hours, removing the aluminum foil after 1 hour.

Clean and cut your potatoes and add them to a large enough baking dish. For the garlic sauce for the potatoes, take 2 tablespoons of melted butter, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and about half of the garlic sauce we made earlier, and mix everything well together. Pour this sauce over the potatoes and toss well, making sure all the potatoes are covered in the sauce. Season with more salt and pepper if preferred. Cover the potatoes with aluminum foil, roast in the oven with the chicken for an hour and a half, also removing the aluminum foil after about an hour, leaving them open to roast properly for the remaining time. And that’s it, you’re done, go do your nails, your hair and then come back after the time has passed and take your masterpiece out of the oven and all that’s left to do is eat.

Yum, or what? Trust me, I wouldn’t steer you wrong, this dinner is one you’ll never forget.

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roast chicken with roast potatoes

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Prep time

20 mins

Cook time

2 hours

Total time

2 hours 20 mins

Roast Chicken with Roasted Potatoes and garlic sauce - an all time favorite Sunday supper at my house. A delicious and juicy roast chicken served with perfectly roasted potatoes and an easy garlic sauce that's to die for. Can't get any simpler and more delicious than this.

Author: Jo Cooks

Serves: 4 servings

ingredients

Garlic Sauce