How to Cook Roast Chicken

Day 1 - Perfect Roast Chicken

oking a roast chicken is easy and there will be enough chicken left over to make the other tasty recipes with the leftovers. Why not get cooking!

ingredients

• 1 Red Tractor chicken (around 1.6kg)


• 1 large onion


• 1 carrots


• 1 leek


• 1 stick of celery


• oil or a knob of butter


• salt and pepper to taste

• To prepare your chicken


• Take your chicken out of the fridge 30 minutes
  before it goes into the oven


• Preheat your oven to 240°C/475°F/gas 9


• Wash and chop the vegetables


• Put all the veg into the middle of a large roasting tray

• To cook your chicken

• Place the chicken on top of the vegetables in the roasting


•  trayand rub oil or butter over the skin


• Put it into the preheated oven


• Turn the heat down to 200°C/400°F/gas 6 and cook the chicken for 


• 1 hour and 20 minutes


• Serving up


• If the chicken is colouring to quickly drop down a shelf in the oven 


• or cover with tin foil


• The chicken is cooked when the juices run clear not pink!


• Allow the chicken to cool for around 30 minutes.


• Then carve and serve it up with your favourite seasonal British vegetables.


• For top tips on checking your bird is cooked and how to carve check out 


• the "1 chicken = 3 meals" videos