Perfect autumn day + Sunday + spare time = Roast dinner. Obviously.Yes, Sunday is an ideal time for a roast so I purchased a massive chicken at the supermarket and returned home. When I came to actually cooking it I fancied something a bit different and came across this recipe:
Lemon and Oregano Roast Chicken with Spinach
I have the Waitrose app on my iphone and have already tried a couple of recipes from it. Its a free app and has a really handy shopping list thingy that lets you cross things off your list as you shop - just like having a shopping list and a pen in real life - but without having to root around in your handbag for a pen that then doesn't work! Anyway this recipe has magically appeared on it with the most recent update so I thought I'd give it a go.
The recipe calls for chicken thighs but I thought it would work just as well with a whole chicken. I covered the chicken in a bit of olive oil, lemon and oregano and popped it upside-down in the oven. After 45 mins I turned it over, basted it and popped some spuds into the oven for a bit more of a Sunday roast feel. So far so easy.
The other part of the recipe is the spinach bit. Here I encountered a slight problem. The ingredients list on the app doesn't list caraway seeds and the spinach does actually require it. As I didn't have caraway seeds I used cumin seeds instead. You add olive oil, crushed garlic and the seeds and then add the spinach to wilt in with them. Finally you add feta and lemon juice.
All in all the recipe was easy and amounted to a lemony fresh chicken with some really nice spinach. I really liked this way of doing spinach and will use it again (will try with caraway seeds next time). The meal, minus gravy was a bit dry but that may be because I roasted a whole chicken rather than cooking thighs as suggested in the recipe.
Summary: nice way of roasting chicken, nice spinach, all easy. Not sure it made a cohesive meal. looked yummy though.
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