40 Cloves of Garlic Chicken with Carrots, Onions & Potatoes

Name: 40 Cloves of Garlic Chicken with Carrots, Onions & Potatoes
Yield: Serves 4–6
Ingredients: Freshly grated nutmeg, for sprinkling; Sweet paprika, for sprinkling; 12 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs and drumsticks, or 1 whole chicken, about 4 lb, cut into serving pieces; 1 cup dry vermouth or white wine, plus more if needed; 40 cloves garlic, unpeeled but cleaned of excess papery skin; 1 lb waxy potatoes, cut into 2-inch pieces if large; Kosher salt; 3–4 carrots, cut into 1- to 2-inch pieces; 1 large yellow onion, chopped; Few fresh thyme sprigs; ½ cup (4 oz) butter, cut into pieces; Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling; Baguette, for serving

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Easy

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Flavors from the Farm

By Emma Hearst

Published 2024

About

Although chicken might seem like it wants to be the star of this dish, I can promise you it doesn’t stand a chance. Garlic has been a star crop in recent years—a rebel without a seed packet because its seeds are the cloves! It obeys a growing schedule opposite of most everything else due to its need for a deep cold rest. Planting thousands of cloves in early October produces beautiful garlic heads for us by the following July. We grow a hardneck variety named German White, which we original