Ingredients
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1/3 cup olive oil
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1 whole chicken, split up the back and flattened a bit (or chicken pieces, with skin and bones)
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4 baking potatoes, washed well and cut into 8-10 pieces each (you may use equivalant red potatoes if you want)
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2 -3 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
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4 -6 garlic cloves, chopped
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1/2 tablespoon kosher salt
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1/2 tablespoon freshly cracked black pepper (I usually use a mortor and pestle)
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1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a large baking pan with foil.
- In a bowl mix together the olive oil, rosemary, garlic, salt and pepper.
- Rub about 1/3 of this mixture all of the chicken and work some of it under the skin.
- Mix the potatoes and the rest of the herb mixture together and scatter over the baking pan.
- Lay the chicken on top of the potatoes.
- Some will be under the chicken and some will not.
- Place in the oven for about 1 hour or until the chicken is done.
- Check the potatoes and move them around from time to time.
- Cook until the juices from the chicken run clear and the potatoes are soft.
- Remove chicken to cutting board to rest for at least 10 minutes.
- Return potatoes to oven while chicken is resting.
- You might even turn the oven up to 400 degrees for a few minutes if you want the skin of the chicken crisper.