Name: Roast chicken with potatoes & lemons
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 15 ml/1 tbsp chopped fresh thyme or oregano, or 5 ml/1 tsp dried, plus 2–3 sprigs of fresh thyme or oregano; 800 g/1¾ lb potatoes; salt and ground black pepper; juice of 1 lemon; 2 garlic cloves, peeled but left whole; 1 chicken, about 1.6 kg/3½ lb; crisp leafy salad, to serve; 300 ml/½ pint/1¼ cups hot water; 60 ml/4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food & Cooking of Greece

By Rena Salaman

Published 2023

About

Kotopoulo fournou me patates is a lovely, easy one-pan dish for a family meal. As with other Greek roasts, everything is baked together so that the potatoes absorb all the different flavours, especially that of the lemon and the juices from the chicken.

Ingredients

1 chicken, about 1.6 kg/3½ lb
2 garlic cloves, peeled

Europe
Greece
Starter
Mediterranean
Gluten-free
Winter

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Place the chicken, breast-side down, in a large roasting pan, then tuck the garlic cloves and the fresh thyme or oregano sprigs inside and around the bird.

Peel the potatoes and quarter them lengthways. If they are very large, slice them l

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