Roasted Chicken with Potatoes and Leeks

Roasted chicken with potatoes and leeks. Sunday night has always been a family dinner night at our house. Yesterday was no different.

Last night’s dish was another of my creations. I just wanted to see how I could prepare the potatoes and chicken in one dish and make it taste good, with the chicken nice and juicy. We all loved it and had very little left over.

It seems we all love chicken. Most of all a whole roasted chicken is a great way to have left overs. We do love roasted chicken at our house. We also love the combination of sweet tender leeks while infusing the potatoes when cooking in the oven. For another easy way to pair chicken and leeks, try my French-inspired chicken and leeks recipe

The potatoes are thinly sliced with the mandolin. The thinner the better because they will cook faster and absorb more of the flavor. Most of all they will have a nice crunchy bite to them..

I made sure the chicken was as fat-free as I could. Consequently, all the juices from the chicken, gave the potatoes and leeks a rather perfect amount of flavor.

For an extra creamy finishing touch, serve this chicken with my creamy parsley sauce for roasted chicken spooned alongside the potatoes

A  green salad was all it needed as a side dish. Fresh strawberries with sugar and a cookie for the sweet tooth in the family.

Roasted Chicken with Potatoes and Leeks

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Prep Time: 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes

Total Time: 2 hours hours

Servings: 6

Author: Giangi Townsend

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Ingredients 

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• 3 pounds roasting chicken
• 2 potatoes, peeled and sliced to 1/8 inch thick
• 1 leeks, cleaned and white part only skiced leeks
• 3 bacon, slices
• 2 shallots, cleaned and thinly sliced
• 2 tablespoons flat-leaf parsley, minced
• fresh thyme, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 cup sodium free chicken stock

Instructions

• Preheat oven at 375 ◦.
• In a large, oven ready, 12” frying pan sauté the leeks, 1 tablespoon parsley, bacon and shallots with 1 tablespoon butter and a small amount of olive oil. When the leeks are translucent, remove the pan from the heat and set the leek bacon mixture aside. Do not clean the frying pan.
• Divide the sliced potatoes in 2 batches.
• Arrange on the bottom of the frying pan one layer of the potatoes slices slightly overlapping them. Salt and pepper them. Spread evenly over the potatoes the leek-bacon mixture. Cover with the remaining potatoes.
• Clean the chicken and salt, pepper the inside. In the chicken cavity place the garlic and the remaining leek, half of the remaining parsley and half of the thyme.
• Truss the wings under the breast area, and tie the legs together.
• Place the chicken on top of the potatoes layers. Spread the remaining butter over the breast skin and sprinkle the remaining parsley and thyme over it. Add the chicken stock over the potatoes.
• Place the frying pan in the hot oven and cook for 1 to 1 hour and half. Turn and poke the breast, legs area a couple of times during the cooking to let all juices run out.
• When done, remove from the oven and let stand for 5 minutes before carving.

Nutrition

Calories: 457kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 31g | Fat: 34g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 14g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 161mg | Sodium: 249mg | Potassium: 427mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 1877IU | Vitamin C: 8mg | Calcium: 32mg | Iron: 3mg

Giangi’s Kitchen provides nutritional information, but these figures should be considered estimates, as a registered dietician does not calculate them.

• Course: Dinners, Poultry
• Cuisine: French