How To Cook Lemon Herb Chicken Family Meal From Whole Foods

Lemon & herb roasted chicken

Inspired by the Nando's lemon and herb roast chicken, a delicious marinade will drag your roast chicken into something extra special!

5 mins

i hr thirty mins

445 kcal

five mins

1 hour 30 mins

445 kcal

Lemon and herb roast chicken (Nandos style) Slimming World friendly

how to serve this lemon and herb roast chicken

I made this for the first fourth dimension for a family motion picture night, where I cooked a Nando'southward style fakeaway! My children don't like anything spicy at the moment, so this lemon and herb blanket was something to please everyone in the family, and my husband and I added chilli sauce at the end!

I served this up with bootleg seasoned chips, a red cabbage and carrot coleslaw, and baby sweetcorn.

This chicken is too great just for a traditional Lord's day roast! Accompany it with some tasty roast potatoes and a pick of vegetables for a meal that anybody will honey.

I dearest to cook whole chickens, considering you lot can go so many meals out of them! I often start with a roast dinner or chicken and chips, strip the remaining meat and utilize it for sandwiches, risotto, stir fries, and so make a uncomplicated craven stock with the carcass, and usually apply that and any leftover meat for a Thai chicken noodle soup!

If you are following Slimming World you will know that you need to syn the chicken skin- the dandy matter well-nigh this recipe is that the chicken still has lovely flavour even if you don't eat the peel!

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How to piece of work out the timings for roasting a chicken

Nearly chickens from a supermarket will give guidelines on the packaging for how long the craven needs to be cooked, simply if you get the chicken from the butchers or a subcontract shop y'all will demand to piece of work this out!

The dominion of thumb for this is to calculate45 minutes per kg, plus twenty minutes.

So if your chicken is 1.8kg this is how you lot would work it out:

45 x ane.8 (= 81 minutes) + 20 = 101 minutes (1 hour, 41 minutes)

I take found it and then much easier to have a meat thermometer to give me the confidence to know that my chicken is cooked properly! A chicken that is cooked as information technology should be will have an internal temperature of 75-eighty°C.

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Lemon and herb roasted chicken

Servings: 4

A whole roasted craven with a delicious lemon and herb coating, information technology'south easy to create a Nando's inspired repast at home!

Syn-gratis (if you are eating the chicken skin, syn this accordingly. The flavours will infuse into the meat if you aren't eating the skin)

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5 mins

Cooking time (approx- this will depend on the size of the craven) 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

one whole free-range chicken (approx. 1.five-1.8kg) (see note above for cooking time recommendations)
3 tbsp fat-free Greek yoghurt
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp rosemary (dried)
1 tsp parsley (dried)
1 tsp oregano (dried)
1 tsp thyme (dried)
1 tsp garlic granules
1 tsp onion granules
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp allspice
1 lemon (zest only)

Instructions

Remove the chicken from the refrigerator 30 minutes earlier you want to cook it, and pre-estrus the oven to 200°c.
In a small bowl, combine the yoghurt with all of the herbs, spices, and the lemon zest.
Rub the marinade all over the skin of the chicken, getting information technology into the nooks and crannies (I find the easiest way to do this is with my hands!)
Encompass the chicken and baking tray with tin foil, and place on the eye shelf of the oven. Set a timer to get off 15 minutes before the end of the cooking time.
When there are 15 minutes left of cooking time, remove the foil from the chicken for the remaining cooking fourth dimension.
When the chicken comes out of the oven, cover information technology loosely with the foil and allow it to rest for xxx minutes before etching.

Notes

If y'all have time, yous can marinade the chicken up to 24 hours before cooking, this will infuse the flavours into the chicken even more.

Having a meat thermometer volition give you lot the peace of listen to know that your chicken is perfectly cooked. See the notation above regarding this.

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