Recipes
Roast chicken with sweet potato mash
Switch up your usual roast dinner for this easy roast chicken and sweet potato mash
Switch up your usual roast dinner for this easy roast chicken and sweet potato mash
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Cook: 1 Hour 45 Mins
Serves: 4
Price: £1.47 per serving
Nutritional Information
Each 452g serving contains
Energy
1871kj
447kcal
1871kj
447kcal
22%
Fat
9.9g
9.9g
Med
14%
14%
Saturates
1.8g
1.8g
Med
9%
9%
Sugars
13.1g
13.1g
High
15%
15%
Salt
0.54g
0.54g
Med
9%
9%
2
of your 5-a-dayof your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
414kj/99kcal
Typical energy values per 100g:
414kj/99kcal
Ingredients
1.6kg Butcher’s Selection Large British Chicken
2tbsp rapeseed oil
1 lemon, halved
4 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 3cm chunks
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 pack cherry tomatoes
2 spring onions, sliced
40g pack wild rocket
Method
1
Preheat the oven to 220C/200C Fan/Gas 7.
2
Put the chicken in a large roasting tin, discard the string and pat dry with kitchen roll. Rub with 1tbsp of the oil and season with black pepper. Put 1 lemon half in the cavity. Roast for 1 hr 30 mins or until cooked – insert a skewer into the thickest part of the thigh; the juices should run clear.
3
Meanwhile, toss the sweet potatoes in the remaining oil and the garlic. After the chicken has been cooking for 40 mins, add the sweet potatoes to the tin.
4
Add the tomatoes to the tin for the final 10 mins.
5
Remove the chicken and tomatoes from the tin; rest for 10 mins, then slice. Set aside 300g meat for the next day.
6
Using a fork, mash the sweet potatoes in the tin and stir in the spring onions.
7
Serve the chicken with the mash, tomatoes, rocket and remaining lemon half, cut into wedges to squeeze.