Roasted Chicken and Potato Bake – Recipe by Laura Vitale – Laura in the Kitchen Ep 199

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Hi guys I’m Laura Vitale on this episode of Laura in the kitchen I want to show you how I make my reverse chicken potato bake super simple and easy I make a thousand variations of this and it’ll I really do make a lot of them but this is

Pretty standard and I guarantee it’ll be on your weeknight menu all the time because it’s really simple and easy to put together so the ingredients for this are super super easy all you’re gonna need are some chicken legs fresh thyme fresh rosemary some garlic cloves potatoes lemons salt pepper extra

Virgin olive oil that’s it now I have to tell you if you let anything like me where you have very long days at work and you’re coming home and you want something quick and easy this is a dinner for you these kind of meals save me all the time because they’re easy

There are two minutes hands on time an hour in the oven but in that time I can take a shower you know do my laundry now all I’m doing is putting my chicken legs in here in a bowl skin and all because the skins gonna get really nice and

Crispy which I love now I’m using chicken legs why am I using chicken legs I got 12 of them for $2.99 that’s why I’m using chicken legs and in my opinion chicken legs are everything chicken breast is it they’re cheap they’re juicy they’re very very flavorful and you can cook them for a

Long time and they get even more tender and kind of fall off the bone while chicken breast you have to cook them quickly you have to you know give them a little tender loving care just because they dry up really quickly and really fast and if you cook them for a long

Time well they kind of very tasteless and they don’t have a lot of teeth and they’re expensive so for dinners like this I go ahead and use the dark meat I love it it’s cheap it’s delicious it’s good to go so all I’m doing in this bowl

Is making a little marinade now let me give you a tip you can save even more time get it time you can save even more time by making marinating the chicken okay you can marinate the chicken the week before pop it in the freezer in a ziploc bag and guess what the night

Before you pop it into your fridge and defrost by itself and you do nothing to it but put it in a pan and bake it and that is dinner I mean come on right now all I’m doing is putting a little rosemary and some fresh thyme in my

Chicken just like that I’m gonna season it with salt and pepper and then I’m going to zest and juice a lemon small little lemon and then I’m gonna cut the lemon in quarters and put the whole lemon right in there it’s kind of roast up its gonna get caramelize around the

Edges but have a tiny little note of the the lemon kind of get it gets caramelized but it still stays a little bit bitter which tastes really good if that makes any sense so that’s why I do it if you don’t want to add the lemon in

There then don’t this is all about whatever you have left over just squeezing the lemon right in like so then quartering cutting the ham in half again a little extra virgin olive oil now if I had time I would have done this yesterday but I wanted to share it with

You so and we’re hungry for dinner so we’re definitely going to have this for dinner so I’m gonna set this aside for I don’t know five minutes however long it takes for me to cut the potatoes and also you want to pre-heat your oven to

450 what I mean nice and hot now all I’m doing to my potatoes first of all a my baking dish here I want to just drizzle it with a little bit of olive oil because these glass baking sheets can sometimes stick and we don’t want that

But that’s perfect now all I’m doing to my potatoes these are Yukon Gold which means that skin is really tender and I don’t have to peel it I’m just gonna cut them into big cubes like that I don’t want that part and just put it directly into the baking sheet into the baking

Pan I’ve got some garlic cloves here that I did not peel why didn’t I peel it because we’re cooking this at a really high temperature which means that if I would appeal it the garlic would burn if the garlic burns becomes bitter become terrible you don’t want to eat that so

Leave it in the skin gets caramelized it gets really sweet you can pop it out of skin and eat it just as is it’s got a really sweet flavor I’m just seasoning my potatoes with a little extra virgin olive oil salt and pepper and a last little sprig of rosemary that I’m just

Gonna scatter and tear just like that and this is this is my kind of food this is home food I make so many variations of this I make it I make some with pearl onion peas and a little bit of white wine I make some with sweet potatoes for

The fall with a little butter nut squash and sage delicious and I will definitely share that with you guys but first right now we’re gonna make this one now I’m just taking my chicken I’m kind of moving the potatoes out of the way so I can make a little room for my chicken

And yes this is are a lot of potatoes for two people cuz it’s just my husband and I but I love potatoes and when they’re cold the next day cook them up with like you would a potato hash it’s delicious right on top it doesn’t hurt anything

Take my lemons put my lemon right up top it’s just a this is easy food this is home food don’t be precise about it now this is gonna go into your breeded oven wash your hands first for about an hour don’t do anything to it just leave it

Alone until the chicken is tender and it’s cooked all the way through the potatoes are cooked and slightly crispy brown on the edges and that’s it pop it in look at that huh is that not a beautiful sight or what now I serve this straight out of the of the 10th of the

10th of the baking dish just like that it told me it’s comforting you did two minutes worth of work now I’m in good an hour of work but whatever you you know I probably push my nails or something in that time but this looks perfect you can

Serve this to just you and your husband with like a side salad or something you could serve it to guests with a side salad a baguette you’ll be good to go I’m taking a potato because I want this potato I mean really hot but what has that ever stopped me before

That they put my tongue up oh wow ha oh it’s true for me I’m good I’m alive my tongue is a little bit burnt but it was well worth day this is so good the potatoes are really nice and crispy cooked all the way through tons of

Flavor from the rosemary the lemon is kinda seeped through the potatoes a little bit but that’s exactly what I’m looking for I am like oh this is skin is so nice and crispy oh I gotta get a piece of skin sorry okay enough said I don’t have dinner

I’m starving this looks delicious and it was so super simple to make you know you’re gonna go in your kitchen make this for dinner and you’re gonna be in business it’s easy simple cheap as chips right man I hope you guys have enjoyed my time with me to get this recipe and

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