Name: Garlic Roast Chicken
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 10 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 lemon, sliced; 3 whole garlic bulbs; 4 sprigs of rosemary; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 tbsp flour; a bunch of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped; 1 chicken; 200 ml white wine; olive oil for drizzling

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
2 hr 30

Appears in

The French Kitchen

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2002

About

Garlic and rosemary give this dish, Poulet à l’ Ail, a lovely Provençal flavour, filling your kitchen with the aromas of summer holidays all year round.

Ingredients

3 whole garlic bulbs
1 chicken
4 sprigs of rosemary

Method

Break the garlic cloves away from the bulbs, place in a small saucepan, cover with water and simmer gently with a lid on for 30 minutes. Leave to cool in the water. Drain the garlic cloves but don’t throw the water away.

Heat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. Carefully ease the skin of the