super tasty spanish roast chicken
main courses | serves 4
This is a cracker of a dish to cook at home. It will really get your taste buds going as it fills the house with the most fantastic smells.
First preheat your oven to 220ºC/425ºF/gas 7, then place your potatoes with 2 of your lemons into a small pan of water and boil for 5 minutes. Drain, and then prick the lemons all over with a knife. (The reason for doing this is that you are going to put them inside the chicken and their wonderful juices will be released while cooking. They will burst with flavour and fragrance, and the heat from the lemons will help the chicken to cook quicker from the inside as well as making it taste and smell amazing.) Remove the parsley leaves from the stalks and put to one side. Stuff the chicken with your hot lemons and the parsley stalks. Then season the chicken and the potatoes with a little salt and freshly ground black pepper, and slice your chorizo at an angle, 0.5cm/¼ inch thick.
Get yourself an appropriately sized baking tray. Take a piece of greaseproof paper and wet it under a tap so it becomes flexible, then shake it out and lay it into the baking tray. Place the potatoes into the centre of the greaseproof paper, then place the chicken on top and sprinkle with the chorizo and a little of your chopped parsley. Drizzle with a little olive oil. Cook in the preheated oven for around 1 hour 20 minutes.
While the chicken and potatoes are cooking you can make what the Italians call gremolata, by finely chopping the zest of your 2 remaining lemons and mixing it with the chopped parsley and garlic. Season lightly and toss together to create a really fragrant seasoning-type garnish. Remove the tray from the oven, take the chicken out and put to one side to rest. Give the potatoes a shake about and put them back in the oven for a few minutes to crisp up.
Carve the chicken and divide between 4 plates, with the potatoes. The potatoes will have taken on the smoky paprika flavour from the chorizo, so if there is any juice left over in the tray, pour every last drop over the plates. When you sprinkle over the gremolata it will hit the hot juice and smell fantastic. You're going to love this one! A rocket salad goes really well with it.

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Jamie's Dinners
ingredients
• 1kg potatoes, peeled and cut into 2.5cm dice
• 4 lemons
• a handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
• 1 x 2kg free-range organic chicken
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 300g good chorizo sausage
• olive oil
• 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
I wish I knew whether the chorizo should be a dry one or a fresh sausage? I made the recipe the a dried one, it turned out pretty good. I am making it again for my birthday on Sunday.
Puk
keep it fresh, Jamie ...
As for the greaseproof, isn't it there to make the washing up easier?
I made this without greaseproof paper, either on the top, or underneath and it was lovely!
The egg is a mystery! Definately an error, I think!
Thank you From Surrey B.C. Canada
10/10
I heard from u in a TV program, and the big work u did with children in a school.
I have to say that I'm spanish and I never heard about to do the chicken this way, I think I have to try it, why not...??
I don't wanna be rude, but where did u take this recipe??? Maybe u should to look more spanish recipes or more spanish cook tv programmes.... I'm saying again that I don't wanna be rude and that's not my intention,defenetly...
so.... keep cooking man!! :)
Ur doing great
Nice pictures, nice ideas in the book but rubbish instruction!!!!!
I am 24 years old I am from England lived with my mum and dad all my life. Both my parents cook really well so I always crew up with home cooked good meals (although I didn't appreciate it) I moved to the states when I was 22 away from my parents and became fat!!! I weighted 17.2 stone I watched one your TV programs about the real side effects of being fat. I now weight 14st I am 6,1 in height.
So I wanted to say a BIG thank you for getting me into cooking and for giving me an extra 13 years of life ;)
PS. The recipe looks great cant wait to give it a go. Oh my mum loves you but try not to swear toooooooooo much ;)
PS. Moving back to England soon cant wait to visit one of your restaurants.
Thanks,
Cameron.
I made spanish chicken for my family yesterday and they enjoyed it so much they would like to have it every week,keep up the good work and new recipes for us all to cook and enjoy.
Thankyou
I am also another Brit living Down Under and we are all loving your Ministry of Food show over here. Pass it on is such a logical and wonderful idea and I do hope it all takes off for you in the UK. So good to see a celebrity use their 'art' for a good cause. We wish you all the luck.
Love your shows, have all your cook books - keep it up!
Cheers
oh and please fetch a ministry of food to my home town!!! xxx
we watch Jamies Ministry of Food from our home in Australia, however we grew up in the UK and is so great to see someone over there trying to make a difference. So many people are so ignorant when it comes to fresh, healthy food, not by any fault of their own, by how and what they were brought up on.
In a day and age where celebrity power is abused for all the wrong reasons, its inspirational seeing someone who is using it to benefit others in our wider community.
Congratulations Jamie! keep up the good work...
we're cheering for you down under!
Keep up the good work Jamie! Your determination and creativity is inspiring!
make some meals, (im 17) but never made anything on my
own, like, i lived off take outs and stuff, so i used to be big,
but since januaruy, ive lost about 3 stone, and recently decided
that im gonna keep healthy, and started to learn to cook, i cant
do much healthy stuff, but ive made a start, and can do, shephards pie,
roast dinner (with the trimmings lol) and bangers and mash, and tht
was before seeing jamies new programme, but im watching it now, and
that chicken thing with esparagus looks really nice, so im gonna find the
recipe and give it ago!! thanks jamie!! goodluck with pass it on!!