I have always loved to cook. It is my passion. I have cooked in restaurants for the past fifteen years. I was inspired to try the recipe below, in part by my mother. I noticed that for a while now, she has added sweet potatoes, instead of white potatoes with her roasted meats. I was browsing a cook book and came across this recipe. It is a great choice for a Sunday dinner. The lime and sweet potatoes work really well together. The sweet potatoes can be peeled or skin left on. The recipe comes from the book: Greatest Ever Thai Cookbook. I added an onion to this recipe, because the flavor goes well against the sweet potatoes. Cook. Experiment. Eat. Enjoy.
Roasted Lime Chicken with Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
- 4 cloves garlic, 2 finely chopped and 2 bruised but left whole
- Small bunch coriander (cilantro), with roots, coarsely chopped
- 1 large white onion
- 1 tsp ground turmeric
- 2 in piece fresh turmeric
- 1 roasting chicken, about 3 1/4 pounds
- 1 lime, cut in half
- 4 medium/large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into thick wedges
- 1¼ cups chicken or vegetable stock
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Salt and ground black pepper
Method
- Preheat the oven to 375ºF
- Calculate the cooking time for the chicken, allowing 20 minutes per pound plus 20 minutes.
- Using a mortar and pestle or food processor, grind the chopped garlic, coriander, 2 tsp salt and turmeric to a paste.
- Place the chicken in a roasting pan and smear it with the paste.
- Squeeze the lime juice over and place the lime halves, onion, and garlic cloves in the cavity.
- Cover with foil and roast in the oven.
- Meanwhile, bring a pan of water to the boil and par-boil the sweet potatoes for 10-15 minutes, until just tender.
- Drain well and place them around the chicken in the roasting pan.
- Baste with the cooking juices and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Replace the foil and return the chicken to the oven.
- About 20 minutes before the end of cooking, remove the foil and baste the chicken.
- Turn the sweet potatoes over.
- At the end of the calculated roasting time, check that the chicken is cooked.
- Lift it out of the roasting pan, tip it so that all the juices collected in the cavity drain into the pan, then place the bird on a carving board.
- Cover it with tented foil and leave it to rest before carving.
- Transfer the sweet potatoes to a serving dish and keep them hot in the oven while you make the gravy.
- Pour away the oil from the roasting pan but keep the juices.
- Place the roasting pan on top of the stove and heat until the juices are bubbling.
- Pour in the stock.
- Bring the mixture to the boil, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon and scraping the base of the pan to incorporate the residue.
- Stir in the soy sauce and check the seasoning before straining the gravy into a jug (pitcher).
- Serve it with the carved meat and the sweet potatoes.
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