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Roast chicken recipe
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Roast chicken recipe

9 ingredients 20 min + 40 min 3 people openrecipes

Chez Bruce's Bruce Poole shares his perfect roast chicken dish.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

668
Calories
52g
Protein
46g
Fat
11g
Carbs

Counts 14 of 16 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 14 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Duck 100g cooked with skin 337
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Oregano 1 tsp dried (1.8g) 5
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Rosemary 1 tsp dried (1.2g) 4
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Tarragon 1 tsp dried (0.5g) 2
Sage 1 tsp ground (0.7g) 2
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Goose not in our table 0
Water not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 Free-range chicken
  • 1 Vegetable oil
  • tbsp Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 Duck fat (or vegetable oil, but duck or goose fat is by far the best)
  • pinch Bunch of fresh thyme or rosemary
  • 100 Whole heads of garlic, each split in half so that the cut cloves are exposed
  • g Water
  • 1 Soft fresh herbs - any of the following: flat-leaf parsley, tarragon, sage or oregano, chopped
  • handful Lemon

Directions

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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