Ingredients

  • A 1.5 kg chicken
  • A lemon
  • An onion
  • 2 carrots
  • A bunch of thyme
  • Olive oil
  • Chicken stock (I use a Stock Pot - I'd avoid stock cubes for this).
  • Some flour
  • Salt 'n' pepper

Method

  1. Oven pre-heated to 170 fan. Or whatever the equivalent is for your weird oven
  2. Chop up the carrots into about 1cm discs
  3. Chop the onion into 8ths or thereabouts
  4. Throw the carrots and onions into a roasting tray
  5. Cut the lemon into quarters and shove up the chicken
  6. Throw the thyme in there too
  7. Slather some olive oil all over the chicken with your hands
  8. Salt and pepper the chicken
  9. Put the chicken on top of the carrots and onions
  10. Stick the chicken in the oven and leave it there for an hour and a half
  11. Take the chicken out of the oven and out of the dish, and leave it to rest for 15 mins on a board, dumping out any juice into the pan
  12. While the chicken's resting, get the roasting pan on some heat and add a tablespoon of flour to the mess
  13. Stir that crazy action till the flour's all dissolved
  14. Chuck the chicken stock thing and 250ml of boiling water into the pan
  15. Stir and scrape around in the pan for a bit, let it reduce until it looks like what you think gravy should look like
  16. Strain into a pouring device of some type
  17. Serve

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