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Greek Lemon Chicken With Potatoes
photo by Sara 76
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
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Chicken
- 1 large chicken
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 11.09 ml dried oregano (if you can get the Greek stuff, you're really cooking!)
- 3.69 ml salt
- 1.23 ml pepper
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
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Potatoes
- 5-6 large potatoes, peeled and cut into big wedges (probably 1/4s)
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 118.29 ml olive oil
- 118.29 ml water
- 2.46 ml salt
- 11.09 ml dried oregano
- 1.23 ml pepper
- 2-3 minced garlic cloves
directions
- (I often add about 1 tsp of crumbled, dried rosemary to the potatoes and 1/2 a teaspoon to the chicken- this is fantastic and it then becomes oregano-rosemary-lemon-garlic chicken).
- Wash the chicken well and pat dry.
- Combine all the remaining ingredients and massage the chicken, inside and out, with this mixture. Put the chicken in a big bowl and put in the fridge while you prepare the potatoes.
- Put the potatoes and all remaining ingredients into a large baking pan. Wash your hands and put them in the pan and toss the potatoes around to coat with other ingredients.
- Put in the oven and crank up the heat to 250°C (480F).
- Start roasting the potatoes and when they're golden-brown, stir them to bring the white sides up and push to the side of the pan to make room in the middle for the chicken.
- If all the water has evaporated, and potatoes have started to stick to pan, add 1/2 cup more.
- Add the chicken, breast-side down, and pour any juices that have accumulated in bowl over.
- Return to very hot oven and roast until chicken is golden-brown.
- Turn over, breast-side up and continue roasting until chicken is nearly as golden-brown on other side.
- At this point, I turn the oven off- don't open it- and leave the chicken in for another 1/2 an hour. I like to think I'm saving energy this way, but it also cooks the chicken beautifully.
- In all, I'd say from when you put the potatoes into the cold oven to when you remove the chicken to carve after sitting in off oven for 1/2 an hour, we're talking 2 hours.
- Serve with pan juices.
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Reviews
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Excellent!The best roast chicken we have ever eaten. I was a little worried about the cooking method since I had splurged on a 4.8 pound organic roaster from Whole (paycheck) Foods - but it was perfectly done. My timing was 20 minutes for the potatoes, 20 each side for the chicken and 30 with the oven off. My potatoes burned a bit so next time I will move the oven rack up a notch. I served it with Lemon Dill Carrots #16961 and Asparagus with Fresh Tomato Yogurt Sauce #19396. Thanks Ev, goes into my book of "Special Tricks".
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The first time that I made this recipe I thought that the baking time for the potatoes was wrong so I did not follow the recipe - the instructions ARE correct and the potatoes are fantastic Crisp on the outside and very soft inside. As suggested I added some rosemary, The aroma from the chicken and the flavor is wonderful - Everyone loved the meal. I served it with new garden fresh carrots (steamed with parsley) & broccoli. Thanks Evelyn for a winner
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My 10 yr old daughter wanted greek chicken the other night. Being a single mom on a budget, the greek restaurant was out of the budget for this week, so I tried this recipe...I made this with chicken breasts and put the potatoes and chicken in at the same time. I covered the roasting pan and baked for hour and forty minutes. The potatoes were tender and the the chicken fell apart. I wish I had roasted them and gave them the golden brown color, but that will definitely be next time! it was very yummy. She loved it!
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My fiancee got me to make this for him one day because we wanted to try something new. I'm so glad we tried this one. I used dark meat chicken quarters, very juicy and tender. The flavor was so good, but i went overboard on the potatoes. Delicious! I could eat the potatoes all by themselves with the lemon sauce at the bottom of the pan. To get more juice out of my lemons, i popped them in the microwave for 45 seconds. I also am a garlic lover, so i added more than called for and i loved it. Thanks, for posting, we make this often now.
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Tweaks
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Ev what can I say but OMG. I have made this so many times and it always turns out great. I usually make the potatoes when we grill with friends and have to hand out a copy of the recipe. The only thing I do different is I use chicken broth instead of water and add more garlic. Thank you for a great recipe.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.