Roast Chicken & Sweet Potatoes with Olive & Basil Sauce

Name: Roast Chicken & Sweet Potatoes with Olive & Basil Sauce
Yield: For Four
Ingredients: 1 bay leaf; 6 cloves of garlic, peeled; 2 lemons – peel and juice; 2 cups fresh basil leaves; 4 tablespoons light soy sauce; 2 tablespoons honey; 1 cup pitted green olives; 4 orange fleshed sweet potatoes; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 large chicken, jointed so the legs and breasts are cut into halves (i.e. 8 pieces in total); Olive oil; 250ml (9fl oz) dry white wine

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For
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Sugar Club Cookbook

By Peter Gordon

Published 1997

About

This is one of those easy-to-knock-up-at-the-last-minute dishes that nevertheless taste exceedingly good. It’s also delicious cold. Use a free-range bird or at least a corn-fed one. Sweet potatoes from the Pacific and olives from Europe may not seem natural soulmates but, well, eating is believing. It’s that sweet and salty combination again - you’ll find they work marvellously well together.

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