Sunday Roast
There’s nothing more heartwarming than a Sunday Roast!! But by all means, do make it on any chosen day of the week, because it’s simply mouthwatering-delicious!!
Follow my easy steps for a perfect Sunday Roast 🙂
Ingredients
- 1 free range chicken (mine was 1.25kg)
- 50g Butter
- 5 Potatoes
- 4 Carrots
- Garlic
- Onion
- Dried thyme
- 1 Lemon
- Rosemary
- Olive oil
- Salt & pepper
How to Make It
Step 1
Pre heat oven to 200°C
Step 2
Towel dry the chicken
Step 3
Using your finger, separate the skin of the chicken from the flesh and fill the spaces with chunks of butter
Step 4
Rub generously with the lemon then insert 1/2 lemon it into the carcass and season with dried rosemary
Step 5
Place the chicken into a dutch over (or a pyrex dish) add the previously washed potatoes and peeled carrots and season with dried thyme
Step 6
Pour some lemon juice and olive oil and cover
Step 7
Place into the pre heated oven for 1h30 to 2 hours, the longer the better, uncovering at around 30 minutes before the end of the cooking time to roast the top of the chicken
Nutritional Info:
If you’re not a vegetarian or vegan, you probably eat chicken, but what kind of chicken do you eat? These days not all chicken farms are created equal. In fact, some of these places treat their birds horribly and produce some low-quality chicken meat. But quality isn’t the only issue — conventional chicken meat has been found to contain some seriously unwanted pathogens, such as Salmonella. That’s why free-range chicken is the only way to go when you consume this common protein food. Free-range chickens are able to roam around, get fresh air and sunshine, and have contact with other chickens.
Source: Healthline
Did you know that:
Free-range chickens are known for producing eggs that are much more nutritionally dense than the eggs laid by caged hens. According to one study conducted in 2007, free-range eggs are a much healthier choice in a lot of specific ways. This study showed that compared to eggs from battery-caged hens, eggs from free-range hens contained:
⅓ less cholesterol
¼ less saturated fat
⅔ more vitamin A
2 times more omega-3
3 times more vitamin E
7 times more beta-carotene
So what are you waiting for to support your local producer and start purchasing locally free range bred chicken.
