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it would help, but that’s ok.
A weekend at our house, includes a lot of people and a lot of food. The weekend that just by, had me roasting a chicken, mashing up some potatoes and dads famous sambaar. His favorite south Indian vegetable concoction.
The roast chicken, veggies and potato dinner
At our house, new recipes like this have to be slowly introduced along with Indian food. So along with my big spread, there was an Indian chicken curry, standard salad and roti.
Roasted chicken
Defrosting the bird, since I couldn’t wait for a fresh one, is a task. While my bird was relaxing, I cut up the veggies that would go along with the chicken.
Your veggies, could range from
Baby carrots
Aubergines
Beans
Peppers
Corn
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Anything you can think of really.
That being done, your bird once defrosted, quick pop into a microwave for turbo defrost, makes everybody s life easier.
Massage your chicken out , rub some salt and pepper while doing so, mash up some garlic , get a few sprigs of thyme and add butter, take some in your hands and rub under the skin and lodge it and spread out so you can see you thyme and mashed garlic under the skin.
For the cavity of the chicken , the best thing to do is cut up a lemon and stick in there along with lots of thyme.
Pop your chicken into the oven at 250 for 30 mins.
Take it back out, on a bigger dish your veggies with salt pepper and mashed garlic, drizzled with oil forms the base. Your chicken sits on top, back into the over for an hour 30 mins.
Delicious roasted chicken and veggies done!
Cheesy mashed potatoes
I like my potatoes to melt in the mouth and make you mmmmmm!
Basic ingredients needed
Potatoes-6
Dill-a tspn
Spring onions-a tspn
Salt
Pepper
Milk
Butter
Cheddar cheese
Chicken stock
Boil up your potatoes, with the skin. Until a fork goes in easy.
While that’s coming to an end, get out a deep dish and pour in milk , a cup and half, and set to boil. Add a chicken stock cube, butter cheese, spring onions and boil until thick and gooey.
Potatoes off the stove under cold water, de skin them, and into your serving dish , mash them asap, and sprinkle your chopped dill, and pour in our gooey mix. Whip or fold. I like mine a little lumpy.
And your meal is done.
