Recipe: Make roast chicken and potatoes in a single skillet

Chicken paired with potatoes is simply a classical combination, particularly erstwhile the potatoes person a crisp, profoundly caramelized crust connected the bottom. This juicy roast chickenhearted is spiked with beauteous flavors, a premix of smoked paprika, caller thyme, citrus zest and olive oil, positive brackish and pepper. The tasty concoction is dispersed connected the extracurricular of the bird, arsenic good arsenic nether the tegument of the bosom meat.

The full shebang cooks successful 1 skillet, a 12-inch cookware that is nonstick and heatproof.

One-Pan Roast Chicken and Potatoes

Yield: 4

INGREDIENTS

3 tablespoons olive oil, divided use

2 teaspoons caller thyme (leaves pulled disconnected woody stem, stem discarded)

1 1/2 teaspoons smoked paprika, spot cook’s notes

1 1/2 teaspoons grated citrus zest, positive citrus wedges for serving

Salt and crushed pepper

1 (4-pound) full chicken, giblets removed

2 pounds medium-sized Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled, ends squared off, sliced crosswise into 1-inch-thick rounds

Cook’s notes: Smoked paprika is sold successful astir supermarkets. It has an appealing smoky spirit and aroma.

PROCEDURE

1. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position. Heat oven to 400 degrees. In tiny bowl, harvester 2 tablespoons oil, thyme leaves, paprika, and zest, positive 1 spoon brackish and 1/2 spoon pepper. Pat chickenhearted adust with insubstantial towels and usage your fingers to cautiously abstracted tegument from breast. Rub lipid substance each implicit chickenhearted and underneath tegument from breast. Tie legs unneurotic with room twine and tuck wingtips down back.

3. Toss potatoes with remaining 1 tablespoonful oil, 1 1/2 teaspoons brackish and 1/2 spoon pepper. Arrange potatoes, level broadside down successful azygous furniture successful 12-inch ovensafe, nonstick skillet. Place skillet implicit mean vigor and navigator potatoes, without moving them, astir 5 minutes to lightly brownish (do not flip).

4. Place chicken, bosom broadside up, connected apical of potatoes and spot skillet successful oven. Roast until bosom registers 160 degrees and thighs registry 175 degrees, 1 to 1 1/4 hours. Transfer chickenhearted to carving board, structure loosely with aluminum foil and fto remainder for 20 minutes.

5. Meanwhile, screen skillet, instrumentality potatoes to oven and roast until tender, astir 15 minutes. Carve chickenhearted and service with potatoes and citrus wedges.

Source: cookscountry.com

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