Farmhouse Chicken

Name: Farmhouse Chicken
Yield: serves 8
Ingredients: 1.1 litres chicken stock, made from the giblets and carcass; salt and freshly ground pepper; 1 tablespoon freshly chopped parsley; 1.1 litres chicken stock, made from the giblets and carcass; 340 g thinly sliced carrots; 400 g finely sliced or chopped onions; salt and freshly ground pepper; 2.3 kg large ‘old’ potatoes; 560 g streaky bacon in one piece; 1 × 1.6 kg free-range chicken; 2 tablespoons sunflower or arachide oil; 2 tablespoons sunflower or arachide oil

Preparation info

serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Darina Allen's Simply Delicious Suppers

By Darina Allen

Published 2001

About

A whole meal in a dish, this was a favourite family supper in our house. We used to serve it in a big black roasting tin.

Ingredients

1 × 1.6 kg free-range chicken
560 g streaky bacon in one piece
2

Supper
Main course

Method

Preheat the oven to 230°C/450°F/Gas 8.

Joint the chicken into 8 pieces; separate the wing joints so they will cook evenly. Cut the rind off the bacon; cut a little less than half of