cook/roast-chicken.md
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+<!-- SUBTITLE: Bung it in the oven and leave it there -->
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+### Ingredients
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+* A 1.5 kg chicken
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+* A lemon
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+* An onion
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+* 2 carrots
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+* A bunch of thyme
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+* Olive oil
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+* Chicken stock (I use a [https://www.knorr.com/uk/knorr-products/stock-pots/chicken-stock-pot.html](Stock Pot) - I'd avoid stock cubes for this).
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+* Some flour
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+* Salt 'n' pepper
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+### Method
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+* Oven pre-heated to 170 fan. Or whatever the equivalent is for your weird oven
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+* Chop up the carrots into about 1cm discs
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+* Chop the onion into 8ths or thereabouts
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+* Throw the carrots and onions into a roasting tray
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+* Cut the lemon into quarters and shove up the chicken
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+* Throw the thyme in there too
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+* Slather some olive oil all over the chicken with your hands
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+* Salt and pepper the chicken
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+* Put the chicken on top of the carrots and onions
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+* Stick the chicken in the oven and leave it there for an hour and a half
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+* 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
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+* Get the pan on some heat and add a tablespoon of flour
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+* Stir that crazy action till the flour's all dissolved
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+* Chuck the chicken stock thing and 250ml of boiling water into the pan
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+* Stir and scrape around in the pan for a bit, let it reduce until it looks like what you think gravy should look like
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+* Strain into a pouring device of some type
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+* Serve
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