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Dinner · 55 min · 4 plates

Sunday roast chicken

Potatoes in the fat. Rosemary and garlic. Rest the bird. It should taste like a Sunday, not a weeknight pan.

The sheet · 4 plates · 55 min

easy

Why tonight. Potatoes in the fat. Rosemary and garlic. Rest the bird. It should taste like a Sunday, not a weeknight pan.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • chicken
  • potato
  • rosemary
  • garlic
  • carrot

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: thyme.

Method

  1. Dry the skin and salt it hours ahead, uncovered in the fridge. That is the single biggest difference in the finished bird.
  2. Hot oven to start, then down. No basting at all — basting is what makes skin flabby.
  3. Potatoes par-boiled and roughed up in the colander before they go in the fat. The rough edges are the crisp bits.
  4. Rest the bird twenty minutes. Make the gravy in the roasting tin while it rests, which is the only right time.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
potato
Waxy holds its shape, floury falls apart, and almost every potato complaint is the wrong one for the job.
rosemary
Pine and resin, and strong enough to take over.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
carrot
Sweetness that survives long cooking, which is why it sits under so many braises.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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