Roast Chicken with Couscous
Serves 4
recipe from Jamie Oliver in Delicious magazine
1.7kg free range or organic chicken
1 lemon, halved
2 red onions, cut into quarters
2 carrots, cut into chunks
a few mint leaves, chopped
olive oil
1 heaped teaspoon ground cumin
200g roasted red capsicum from a jar, drained and roughly chopped
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 tablespoon ground coriander
250g (1 1/4 cups) couscous
Preheat oven to 200c. Make some deep criss-cross slashes in the chicken legs. Stuff lemon inside chicken then rub the skin with olive oil, salt and pepper and cumin. Place the chicken in a roasting pan and bake for 15 minutes. Reduce the oven to 180c. Add onions and carrots to the pan and roast for 1 hour shaking the pan now and then until chicken is cooked (when the thigh meat pulls easily away from the bone and the juices run clear). Carefully lift the chicken out onto a plate and cover with foil. Spoon the vegetables onto a board and chop them roughly, then put back into the pan and place over medium heat. Add 2 cups water, then scrape all the bits off the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon.
Add the capsicum, paprika, coriander and the couscous to the pan. Pull the lemon out of the chicken using tongs and squeeze the juice into the couscous. Bring to a boil then turn heat off and rest for 5 minutes or until the couscous has absorbed all the water. Fluff up the couscous with a fork and stir through the chopped mint and a good splash of extra virgin olive oil. Cut the chicken up and serve on a bed of couscous.
Tags: couscous, roast chicken
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