Pot-Roasted Chicken with Root Vegetables

This is a true winter dish, making the most of the lovely root vegetables which are in season during the winter months. This is also one of those convenient one-pot dishes where the vegetables are cooked with the meat. All that is needed to accompany the pot roast is a dish of baked potatoes. Any vegetables left over from the pot roast can be liquidized into a delicious soup made with stock from the chicken carcass. If this is to serve six, it is really better to use two small chickens – us