Roast Chicken with Potatoes

Name: Roast Chicken with Potatoes (Pollo al Forno con Patate)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 roasting chicken weighing 1.3 kg (3 lb); 1 kg (2¼ lb) medium-sized yellow waxy potatoes, peeled and cut into quarters; 1 onion, sliced; 2 sprigs fresh rosemary; 10 tbsp olive oil; 20 garlic cloves, unpeeled; salt and pepper to taste; salt and pepper to taste

Pollo al Forno con Patate

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

An Invitation to Italian Cooking

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 1986

About

‘This homely dish is known all over Italy. Chicken used to be a Sunday dish, but is now eaten on any day of the week. As this is an easy recipe, which does not require much preparation time, it is highly suitable for a weekday meal.’

Ingredients

1 roasting chicken weighing 1.3 kg (3 lb)
1 kg (

Europe
Italy
Main course
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/Gas 7.

Clean the chicken and cut it up into 12-16 pieces. Put the chicken pieces together with the potatoes into a baking tray, and mix together with the onion and sprigs of rosemary. Season with salt and pepper and pour over the olive oil. Scatt