Pesto Roast Chicken
photo by The Flying Chef
- Ready In:
- 1hr 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- olive oil
- 1 1⁄2 kg whole chickens
- 3 tablespoons basil pesto, homemade or 3 tablespoons store bought basil pesto
- 4 small red onions, peeled and sliced in half
- 2 green zucchini, sliced in wedges
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled
- 200 g cheery tomatoes
directions
- Pre Heat oven to moderate. Loosen skin on chicken breast by sliding your fingers between the skin and the flesh. Rub about 11/2 tablespoons of Pesto under the skin over the breast.
- Rub the remaining 11/2 tablespoons of pesto over the outside of chicken, breast, legs and wings.
- Place halved onions in a roasting pan drizzle about 1 tablespoon of olive oil over and place chicken on top.
- Roast, uncovered in moderate oven for 30 Minutes.
- Add garlic and zucchini to roasting pan, drizzle with a little extra oil and return to the oven for about 1 hour or until chicken is coked through.
- If using cherry tomatoes add to roasting pan about 20 min’s before the end of cooking time.
- Serve with fresh corn on the cob and roasted potatoes.
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Reviews
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Nice roast chicken...hubby was happy with the meal! I also added some potatoes, turnips and carrots to the roasting pan - all of the veggies were done after 1 hour of cooking so I removed them while the chicken roasted to perfection in 1.5 hrs (total) at 375 degrees. I used about double the pesto that the recipe called for (and even rubbed it on the chicken about 3 hrs before cooking so that it would marinate a bit) but the pesto flavor was not present in the final product. Next time I will use even more pesto and will coat the veggies in pesto too.
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