Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, roast chicken with fennel. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Top fennel with the chicken parts, skin side up. If necessary, adjust oven temperature so chicken browns but. Here I roast chicken thighs in a light bath of lemon juice, olive oil, and garlic, with thick wedges of fennel bulb thrown into the mix. They all roast together at high heat, crisping up around the edges and becoming infused with the flavor of garlic and lemon.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have roast chicken with fennel using 10 ingredients and 33 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Roast Chicken with Fennel:
- Take 1 each whole organic chicken approximately 4lbs
- Make ready 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Make ready 1 each lemon
- Take 4 each large spring onions
- Get 2 each fennel
- Get 6 clove garlic
- Make ready 1 each carrot
- Prepare 3 each small onions
- Get 1/4 cup wine (optional)
- Get 4 cup water (to make stock from wings and neck)
Garnish with reserved citrus slices and fennel fronds. Free-range chickens are generally smaller and more tender, and they cook faster. Serve this easy midweek roast with a side of creamy polenta. It's deeply flavoured and aromatic thanks to garlic, thyme and fennel.
Steps to make Roast Chicken with Fennel:
- Preheat oven to 425°F. Cut off the green tops and the bottoms of spring onion.
- Cut spring onions in pieces about 1/2 inch.
- Cut the green fronds off the fennel.
- Cut fennel in pieces about 1/2 inch.
- Peel garlic.
- Chop garlic.
- Place all in pan.
- Drizzle with olive oil and toss gently to combine.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper if desired.
- CHICKEN: Place chicken in a bowl.
- Cut off neck.
- Cut off wings.
- Conserve for stock.
- Rub the outside with a coat olive oil.
- Take a lemon and pierce with a fork a few times.
- Place whole lemon in chicken cavity.
- Can tie legs together, if desire.
- Place chicken in pan with veggies. Roast 30 minutes.
- BROTH: Take the green tops from green onions and slice.
- Remove the soft part of the green fronds from fennel.
- Cut one carrot, 3 small onions, garlic for broth.
- Put chicken wings and neck in 4 cups water. Salt and pepper.
- Add carrot, onions, and garlic.
- Bring to boil, then reduce and simmer, while removing any excess fat with strainer.
- Reduce oven temp after the 30 minutes to 375°F. Stir veggies well and roast for another 20 minutes or more until internal temperature reaches 165°F.
- When ready, remove chicken from oven and cover in foil.
- Remove veggies from oven (should be golden and caramelized) into large sauce pan.
- Add 1/4 cup wine (if desired) to stock and simmer a few minutes.
- Add the fennel and spring onion tops and 1 tbs olive oil.
- Simmer until tender and begins to thicken. Add 1 to 1/2 cup of homemade stock to roasted vegetables. Remove bones from meat.
- Layer the veggies and drizzle with some sauce on a platter.
- Remove foil and add chicken.
- Serve additional veggies in broth in separate serving dish. *Adapted Andrea Reusing Roast Chicken with Fennel
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