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Darren Simpson

Traditional Roast Chicken With Garlic Cloves, Tarragon & Bread sauce


Traditional Roast Chicken With Garlic Cloves, Tarragon & Bread sauce

Ingredients

Bread Sauce

  • ½ L Milk
  • ½ Chopped carrot
  • Celery
  • Garlic Smashed
  • Thyme
  • 1 Bay leaf
  • Rosemary
  • ½ cup Fresh White breadcrumbs
  • 1 tablespoon french mustard
  • 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
  • Salt & Pepper

Roast Chicken

  • 1 Whole Organic Chicken
  • 20 Cloves Garlic
  • 4 large carrots Parboiled & cut in half down the centre
  • 1 Glass Dry white wine Reserve a splash
  • 120 g unsalted butter
  • Thyme
  • Rosemary
  • 2 tablespoons Chopped Tarragon
  • Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • Salt & Pepper

Method

Bread Sauce

  1. Bring the milk to the boil with all of the above except the bread crumbs, mustard & seasoning; let the mixture infuse for 30 minutes & then strain.
  2. Thicken the milk with the bread crumbs, season with salt & pepper & whisk in the mustard & Worcestershire.

Roast Chicken

  1. Rub the chicken with ½ the butter & season salt & freshly ground black pepper.
  2. Place the garlic cloves in a preheated roasting dish, with little olive oil, add the sprig of thyme, sage & rosemary then add the chicken.
  3. Place the chicken in a preheated oven (200c) cook for 20 minutes & then add the carrots, cook for a further twenty five minutes & remove from the oven.
  4. Remove the chicken & garlic cloves, allow to rest.
  5. Carve the chicken & place on a serving platter with the roasted garlic cloves & carrots.
  6. Deglaze chicken juices with the white wine, add the chopped tarragon & spoon over the chicken & serve with the bread sauce.
  7. Enjoy.
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  • Munch-kin
    May 2010

    Timing aside, three questions before I get started: 1. what do I do with the other 1/2 of butter after I've fattened the bird? 2. I presume the almost glass of white wine goes in at the same time as the chook but what do I do with the reserved splash of wine? apart from maybe drinking it 3. Sage doesn't rate a mention in the list of ingredients, do I assume that whatever quantity I deem fit is okay as it appears you have to do with the other herbs? Any answers would be welcome.

  • KinkyPinky
    January 2010

    Hmm maybe if they were chicken pieces or a flattened out chicken... i personally would cook longer anyway with some foil over the top.

  • Liz Nichols
    January 2010

    Cant see the chicken would be cooked in just 40 minutes??

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