Simple Roast Chicken
Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash
Somehow I think we’ve been fooled into thinking that a roast dinner is a complicated thing to pull off. That it’s time consuming and only for big family gatherings or parties. For a weeknight, who has the time?! Just grab a rotisserie chicken and call it good!
But roasting is actually really easy! Even on a weeknight it can be a great way to put food on the table… and put some highly useful leftovers in the fridge.
Roasting a chicken is especially easy and soul satisfying — it’s not hard to make one that’s far tastier than your supermarket rotisserie.
And roasting a chicken connects us with thousands of years of cooks who have done it mostly the same way - season a plucked bird and expose it to contained heat. All the crispy bits, all the juicy meat, all the joys of the smells and sounds of a crackling chicken are pleasures that cooks from time immemorial have handed down to us. Roasting a chicken for your family’s evening meal is celebrating the very soul of cooking. And it’s tasty as h-e-double-hockey-sticks.
All it needs is about an hour and a half of lead time before you want to serve dinner — but very little of that time is going to be taken up actually doing anything other than enjoying the smell of a chicken roasting.
Enjoy!
Find our recipe for Simple Roast Chicken, here.
If you try it and like it, tag me on social media here and let me know what you think.
