Herby One Pot Chicken

January 7, 2011 · 27 comments

We love this meal here, especially me. An all in one dinner equals one dish to wash up and nothing else! It’s quite popular with the children too.

All measurements are approximate because I have a big family, two teenage boys eat the equivalent meals of four grown men so I throw in as much as possible. I cook this in huge aga roasting tin. I also vary the vegetables depending on what I have in the fridge. Butternut squash is good as would be any number of vegetables that like being roasted such as courgettes, leeks, aubergine.

If you were cooking this meal for four adults I would suggest the following so adjust according to numbers and appetites:

500g baby new potatoes
300g chantenay carrots or carrots peeled and chopped into large chunks
fresh parsley
fresh thyme
whole bulb of garlic separated
8 chicken thighs or 4 breasts
1 lemon
200ml chicken stock or 100ml white wine & 100ml chicken stock

Preheat oven to 180ºC/gas mark 6
Halve the potatoes and toss in the roasting tin with 1 tbsp of olive oil
Add the carrots, chopped parsley, sprigs of thyme and the garlic cloves to the tin
Place the chicken on top of the potatoes and carrots
Slice the lemon and add to the tin
Drizzle olive oil over the contents of the tin and then add the stock and wine, if using
Roast for approximately 45 minutes or until the potatoes and chicken are cooked

This has been posted for the Friday Club Cooking Carnival over at Notes From Home. This week the theme is One Pot Cooking. Click on the badge for more information. See below for all the other posts on the same theme.

Here are the other entries in the Friday Club One-Pot Cooking Carnival:

Helen at Cheeky Wipes gives us her Warm Lentil & Feta Salad Recipe.

Clare at Seasider in the City gives us her Sausage Casserole.

Cass at The Diary of a Frugal Family gives us the perfect pudding for winter, her Rice Pudding.

Jax at Making it Up posts her Prime Number Vegetable Stew.

Cara at Freckles Family posts her Pot-luck Goulash.

Ella at Notes From Home posts her Rice Pudding.

Tagged as: cooking, cooking for children, friday club carnival, gluten free, one pot cooking, Recipes

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1 seasiderinthecity February 6, 2011 at 10:43 pm

Had this tonight – lovely!

Thanks for posting x
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2 Nova February 6, 2011 at 10:59 pm: Brilliant! Glad you liked it. thanks for letting me know.

3 Mama Kelly aka Jia January 15, 2011 at 10:15 pm

Easy and frugal, tasty to boot (I bet). It doesnt get much better than that.
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4 seasiderinthecity January 10, 2011 at 1:11 pm

That looks lovely – definately going on the list for meals
this week! Thanks x

5 Nova January 10, 2011 at 9:38 pm: Yay! Hope you enjoy it.

6 Aly January 9, 2011 at 8:19 pm

I’ll be trying this definitely.
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7 Nova January 10, 2011 at 9:32 pm: great, it really is tasty.

8 Kerry January 8, 2011 at 10:53 am

This looks lovely nice and easy and no stress just the kind of cooking I like. Well be trying this one soon xx
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9 Nova January 8, 2011 at 12:03 pm: Thanks Kerry, I hope you like it. It is so quick and easy to just throw it all in and forget about it.

10 Cass@frugalfamily January 8, 2011 at 10:42 am

That looks gorgeous – I’m doing Slimming World at the moment and that would be ideal for me as we can all eat it. I’m going to try that this weekend. Thanks very much x
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11 Nova January 8, 2011 at 12:02 pm: Oh I’m loosely doing Slimming World too and I had some left over so had this two days in a row. I hope you like it.

12 Patty January 8, 2011 at 3:06 am

OH! Does that look yummy! Very hearty.

13 Nova January 8, 2011 at 12:03 pm: Thank you, I like hearty meals .

14 ella January 7, 2011 at 10:51 pm

This looks absolutely delicious. We eat a lot of chicken so I’m very glad to have found a new recipe, thank you!

Thanks for taking part in the carnival x
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15 Nova January 8, 2011 at 12:03 pm: Great! It really is a family favourite and you can adapt it so much as well.

16 Michelle Twin Mum January 7, 2011 at 10:20 pm

Yum, that looks divine.

I will be printing off these recipes.

Thanks Mich x
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17 Nova January 8, 2011 at 12:04 pm: Thanks Michelle. It really is very tasty.

18 Spectrummy Mummy January 7, 2011 at 9:23 pm

Well, that looks delicious. Also, my kids are gluten-free,
dairy-free and have a number of allergies, but they can eat this.
Sweet!

19 Nova January 8, 2011 at 12:05 pm: Brilliant! My son is gluten free too so always better to have one dish rather than two slightly different ones.

20 Alethea January 7, 2011 at 5:54 pm

Gosh that looks and sounds delicious! I adore butternut squash so that would be first prize.

21 Nova January 8, 2011 at 12:06 pm: Oh me too…..I can’t get enough of butternut squash. You could replace the potatoes for sweet potatoes as well, that would be good.

22 CaraFreckles January 7, 2011 at 5:15 pm

Mmm, mmm, that looks great – quick, tasty & filling.
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23 Nova January 8, 2011 at 12:06 pm: Thank you. I like big dinners!

24 Marianne January 7, 2011 at 2:51 pm

…now that’s the kind of cooking I love, quick easy and not too much fuss, it’s the kind of reciipe I have to use these days being strapped for time. I shall try it out next week