Roast Chicken dinner

Since I mentioned roast chicken last post, I thought I should tell you what I do. This is one of the easiest and most delicious meals we have at the moment.

A good quality (hormone free) whole chicken
salt
freshly ground pepper

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Rinse the chicken inside and out and pat dry.
Season with salt and pepper inside and out. Truss legs together if you have kitchen twine (I don't usually).
Place in roasting tray (I have one with a rack so I can put vegies underneath) and cook until juices run clear (about 1-1.5hrs depending on size of your chicken). For example - 1.5kg chicken takes about 1hr15 if you start the oven at 220 for 15min and then turn it down to 200, according to a Bill Granger recipe).

Putting a lemon inside the chicken gives a lovely flavour.

I usually serve with potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potato and peas. I usually half cook the potatoes (halved) and sweet potatoes (large pieces) in the microwave, drizzle them and the pumpkin (large pieces) with olive oil and place them in the tray under the chicken for the same amount of time as the chicken. Then I cook frozen peas and make gravy with Gravox powder, boiling water and the juices from the chicken. I have used gluten free flour, the juices from the chicken and pepper before as well to make the gravy (I think that's all the ingredients).

Enjoy.