Recipe - Greek Chicken [Trimmed]

5 pound Roasting chicken, skinless
1 Lemon; quartered
One fourth cup Olive oil
Salt and pepper
12 Cloves garlic; crushed
2 teaspoon Dried oregano; plus
3 tablespoon Dried oregano
1/3 cup Fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoon Cracked black pepper
6 Boiling potatoes; wedged and
chunked
1 cup Water; or
One half cup Lowfat chicken broth; as
needed
One fourth cup Flatleaf parsley; chopped

Consider placing cut or sliced up root vegetables (carrots, turnips) and onions in
the bottom of the pan that will take the place of a rack and add flavors.
Roasting at two oven temperatures gives chicken a crispy outside, and a
moist inside.

Heat oven to 400 degrees.

Rinse chicken and pat dry. Rub chicken inside and out with cut lemon
quarters, 1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and ground
pepper. Place the lemon quarters, 4 garlic gloves and 2 teaspoons oregano
in the chicken cavity. Place chicken on rack in a roasting pan.
In a small saucepan, combine remaining olive oil, lemon juice, 2
tablespoons oregano, coarsely cracked pepper and 1 teaspoon salt and bring
to a simmer over medium heat. Simmer 3 minutes. Remove from heat.
Place potatoes and the remaining 8 garlic cloves around the chicken and
sprinkle them with remaining 1 tablespoon oregano. Spoon a little of the
lemonoil mixture over the chicken. Pour 1 cup water or broth evenly over
potatoes and place in oven. Roast 15 minutes. Baste chicken with some of
the lemonoil mixture and reduce heat to 350 degrees. Roast, basting with
lemonoil mixture every 1015 minutes, until juices run clear when thigh is
pierced with a fork or an instantread thermometer inserted in the thigh,
not touching bone, reads 180 degrees, about 1 One fourth hours.
Transfer chicken to a warmed platter. If potatoes aren't golden, raise heat
to 450 degrees and cook for 15 to 20 minutes, adding more water or broth if
necessary to prevent sticking. Garnish with parsley.
Recipe from Taverna: Best of Casual Mediterranean Cooking by Joyce
Goldstein (1996). Part of a series: Casual Cuisines of the World (Sunset
Books, $19.95). Reprinted Scripps New Service 24 Oc 96. [Pat H. McRecipe,
III: orig. 900 cals, 65g fat; with revisions 470 cals, 16.1 g fat]
Recipe By : idea from Joyce Goldstein, Taverna

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #256

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:15:37 0700 (PDT)

From: PatH phannema@wizard.ucr.edu