Slow-roasted Garlic & Lemon Chicken

Total Time: 17 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 roasting chicken, cut into 10 pieces
• 1 head garlic, separated into unpeeled clove
• 2 lemons, unwaxed and cut into 8 pieces
• fresh thyme
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 150 ml wine
• black pepper

Recipe

• 1 pre-heat the oven to 160ºc.
• 2 put the chicken pieces into a roasting tin and add garlic cloves, lemon chunks and the thyme; just roughly pull the leaves off the stalks, leaving some intact for strewing over later.
• 3 add the oil and using your hands mix everything together, then spread the mixture out, making sure all the chicken pieces are skin side up.
• 4 sprinkle over the wine and grind on some pepper, then cover tightly with foil and put in the oven to cook, at flavour-intensifying low heat, for 2 hours.
• 5 remove the foil from the roasting tin, and turn up the oven to 200ºc and cook the uncovered chicken for another 30-45 minutes, by which time the skin on the meat will have turned golden brown and the lemons will have begun to scorch and caramelise at the edges.
• 6 serve straight from the roasting tin to plate.