PERFECT SUNDAY SUPPER RECIPE (Roasted Chicken and Aromatic Potatoes)

This week, we’re delighted to be back in the La Fortezza kitchen, cooking up the perfect hearty accompaniment. When you’ve spent the whole week looking at Italian real estate like me, there’s no better Sunday supper recipe than this, my roast chicken with Leo’s special roasted potatoes. Recipes below…

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ANNETTE’S ROAST CHICKEN
(from Picture Perfect Parties)
Serves 4-6

Ingredients:
– 1 (4- to 5-pound) roaster chicken, preferably organic
– ¼ cup olive oil
– 3 garlic cloves, minced
– 3 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
– 2 teaspoons coarse salt
– 4 lemons, halved
– 8 small carrots
– 1 medium red onion, quartered
– 1 apple, quartered

Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 400° F.

In a small mixing bowl, stir together the oil, garlic, rosemary, salt, and the juice of 2 of the lemon halves. Rub the mixture all over the chicken, place the lemon rinds in the chicken cavity, and tie the legs together with the kitchen string. Layer the carrots, onions, apples, and the remaining lemon halves in the bottom of a roasting pan. Place a roasting rack on top of the vegetables and place the dressed chicken on the rack.

Roast the chicken in the oven for 1 hour, or until a meat thermometer inserted into the center of the breast reads 160° F.

Remove from the oven, cover the pan loosely with aluminum foil, and allow the chicken to rest for 10 minutes before carving and serving.

Serve the roast vegetables on a platter with the chicken, spooning any pan drippings over the top.

LEO’S ROAST POTATOES
Serves 6 to 8

This is a versatile potato side dish; you can cook the potatoes peel-on or peeled. It’s your choice. They will still be delicious. Sprinkle with the versatile aromatic salt, Leo’s secret to tasty roasted potatoes.

Ingredients:
– 3 pounds small red or white potatoes, peel on or off, cut in to 2-inch pieces
– ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil + ¼ cup for roasting
– 6 whole cloves garlic

To make the Aromatic Salt:
(Makes 1 cup)
– 1 cup coarse salt
– 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
– ¼ cup fresh Rosemary
– ¼ cup fresh sage

*Put the ingredients into a food processor and process on high until fine.

Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

Sprinkle the pan with 3 tablespoons olive oil. Place the potatoes in the pan and sprinkle ½ cup of the aromatic salt on top of the potatoes. Combine the salt with your hands until the potatoes are completely coated. Add the remaining oil and add garlic cloves. Roast the potatoes for 40 minutes until browned and crisp.

Turn with a spatula halfway through cooking to ensure even browning. Serve hot.

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Chapters:

00:00 – Introduction to the recipe
00:40 – Making a wet rub
01:34 – Tooshie
02:36 – Flavor base
02:52 – Stuffing the chicken
03:58 – Cooking the chicken
04:29 – Tell us about your potatoes
04:55 – Romantic potato seasoning
05:31 – Preparing the potatoes
07:02 – Cooking the potatoes
07:27 – Taste tests
08:48 – Petto o coscia?
10:12 – Thanks for watching!

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Hi we’re cooking from this book today this is from my Sunday supper chapter in Picture Perfect parties this is a really great menu it’s got heart garlic broccoli Rob and today I’m going to make my garlic rosemary lemon chicken quite delicious if you’re washing your chickens from the store stop doing that

Leave your chickens alone they’re going to come up to temperature and they’re going to kill any bacteria you have a higher risk of getting any kind of food poisoning if you are washing your chickens and patting them dry no need to give them a bath they’re fine what I

Like to do is to put a wet rub on my chickens we’re going to make a sort of a marinade so we have four nice cloves of garlic I really like using a microp planer I don’t know if you use a microp planer but if you don’t get one they’re

Great what are you doing this no no no don’t mess with my recipe or I’ll microplan you tons of Rosemary you know there are measurements in the recipe but as you guys know by now I just do my own thing but I actually don’t chop these up

I just put them because I I like the way they look on the chicken you know sort of like little I was going to say feathers but that’s not cool this is malen salt it’s kind of crunchy flake salt and then we’ll start putting our lemon in I save the carcasses of the

Lemon because I stuff them into the chicken tushies to what I’m going to stuff these into your tushy tushy do you not know what a tushy is now I can imagine a tushy is your bum I see yeah therey your coolo your coolo so I stuff him into to

Theirs now we’re going to do the oil lemony hands a nice glug of oil I’m just going to set it aside for a minute just so it kind of all smoes together so see this is what you’re going to painting your chickens with this garlic salt lemon rosemary olive oil very

Simple no big shakes okay and these we’re going to save we’re not going to put all of them up there toes but some of them will go up there toes we’re going to put some stuff in the bottom just to flavor the juices in the bottom apples carrot some onion we’re just

Using the juices so it doesn’t have to be perfect and beautiful so I take these carcasses and I sort of shove them into the cavity here I don’t know why I like doing that but I really well no I don’t really like shoving it in I don’t know why I like

Having lemon in my chicken that really sounded bad I love shoving these no no I don’t this is where you’re using your hands okay and you’re kind of pouring it over and you put like a nice Mound on your chicken because you’re actually going to be rubbing this in okay so just

Keep that in mind and see all these nice juices go down to the veggies and then when you spoon over the really delicious drippings on your chicken it’s just great what happens is as the salt kind of sticks in the garlic kind of sticks to the Rosemary which is terrific kind

Of put your garlic around and then I do do a little bit of sprinkle of the salt over it too that’s my chicken people how long did that take not long it’s like you know 15 minute situation and we’ll put this in the oven it will cook for about I bet this is

Like an hour and 15 minutes I like to start at 400 and then reduce the heat 10 minutes later to about 375° I don’t cover it I just let it go and when the internal temperature reaches about 160 I’m usually good to go so we’ll see you in a couple Hours okay so tell us about these potatoes Yeah the secret for these potatoes is a salar romao so Salah romantico aromatico I thought I thought he was getting romantic with me R romantic as well these are romantic potatoes got it so you make an aromatic mixture that goes on top of the

Potatoes and makes them delicious okay so as we say bye bye the food processor one cup of course Salt garlic Sage garlic Sage from our garden Ros Rosemary from our garden you got to put pepper in it this guy loves some him some pepper you do love pepper yes sir pepper guy Bye it’s like he drives the car it’s horrifying how do you know when it’s done when it’s F uh thin fine fine fine thin when it’s fine okay some oil in um never a little bit oil I mean come on SO oil in the bottom

Of the pan one quick tip uh when you’re cutting your potatoes make sure they’re always in water otherwise they will oxidize and turn brown so whenever you’re cutting a bunch of potatoes just have a bowl of water throw them into the bowl of water I love this aromatic salt

Situation why are we not talking about this more why is this not a subject I think that would be great on the chicken that I just made okay okay well this might change my life again Leo is just changing my life all over the place okay and then oil more

Oil because he’s Leo and we’re in Italy and we like oil how much of this are you putting on you just like randomly like what do you think the best way is to have all we’re going to have all the measurements you know cooking with Leo is very um it’s

Very ad hoc it’s like whatever so if it you’re the turn it you cover all the potatoes with some some salt then you mix you so you use your hands to to combine the salt with the potatoes and the oil got it okay me I mean it looks

Like you put like a quarter of a cup in there actually to me oh and then we’re putting Rosemary oh this is so beautiful Leo this is really pretty recipe I’m very impressed rosemary sage and then he throws some garlic cloves in there that’s awesome and it looks so so pretty

Yeah so let’s throw it in the oven so 400° at least for how long 30 minutes you have to turn them once so in the middle of 40 minutes you’re going to open the oven you’re going to go in and turn them I suggest always using sort of

A spatula to turn them and then put them back in for another 20 minutes check them if they’re not quite done you can you know just keep checking them all right should we taste this puppy let’s do it last two forks in the thing all right so think they like

Lava I know we really have to can you give us a Minute car it’s buo but I’m afraid all right I’m going for it they’re hot hot M so good mhm make these potatoes they’re really delicious wow whoa beautiful that looks beautiful I think we should put on a plate no yeah see oh it’s like yeah du

Oh now now picking the plate look at look at his face he has no idea what to do I don’t know let’s put it on that platter the green platter back there that’s pretty you know picking what you’re going to put your chicken on is as important as anything I like your

Style you do so you can serve these these are very nice with the the juices poosa huh petosa what does that mean PTO kosha what language is that that’s not Italian PTO PTO PTO Betto or PTO PTO PTO or kosha or kosha what’s kosa Kos thigh is it done perfect is it

Juicy it is super I make a good chicken don’t forget to cut the skin that’s my favorite part Let’s Go full disclosure we just had lunch but okay we’re going to go for it little bit of the drippings I’m just good you’ll like it little bit of the Apple I’m sorry what’ you

Say m I think you said bu Simo when you try the Apple super good right do you know the H when I’m always wear when I taste up the on camera that I’m going to choke and then you do you know the HCK maneuver do

You know okay we’re in good hands then I trust you Leo anyway um thanks so much for joining us for my roasted chicken from my Sunday supper chapter in my book Picture Perfect parties I actually take the whole thing eat it and then we use the carcass

For chicken soup so I this is really a no waste recipe if you’ve made it this far we’d like to ask that you like and subscribe he knows his bit yeah it’s easy and it’s really really delicious thanks for watching and ciao Cow