Recipes
Oven-Roasted Chicken
Learn how to make delicious oven-roasted chicken with this quick and easy recipe:
Ingredients
- •1 kg chicken drumsticks and thighs (or breast, if preferred)
- •4 garlic cloves, crushed
- •Juice of 1 lime
- •1 tablespoon sweet or hot paprika
- •3 tablespoons olive oil
- •Rosemary sprigs (optional)
- •Salt and black pepper to taste
- •1 onion, sliced into rings
- •2 medium potatoes, sliced into rounds (optional, as a side)
Instructions
- 1
Season the chicken with the garlic, paprika, lime juice, olive oil, salt and black pepper.
- 2
Leave to marinate for at least 30 minutes (the longer, the better).
- 3
Spread the onion rings and, if using, the potato slices in a roasting pan.
- 4
Place the chicken on top and arrange the rosemary sprigs over it.
- 5
Cover with aluminum foil and roast in a preheated oven at 200°C for 40 minutes. Then remove the foil and roast for another 20 minutes or until golden brown.
- 6
Remove from the oven and serve hot with rice, salad or mashed potatoes!