Roasted Chicken Dinner

Your meat and vegetables cook together in this dish. When the chicken and vegies are done you have a wonderful gravy in the pot to serve over the vegetables. It makes the house smell so good while cooking.

• Ready In: 1 hr 50 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 3 -4  lbs whole chickens
• 2 (11 1/2ounce) cans  condensed cream of chicken soup (I prefer Campbells)
• 4  ounces water
• 3 -4  white potatoes, peeled and halved
• 6 -8  carrots, peeled
• 1  medium  white onion, peeled and halved
• 1⁄2-1  fennel bulb (halved or quartered)

• Coating for chicken

• 2  tablespoons olive oil
• 1⁄2 teaspoon fennel seed
• 1⁄2 teaspoon rosemary
• 1⁄2 teaspoon thyme
• 1  teaspoon Grand Marnier
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Pour the cans of soup and the 1/2 Cup of water in the bottom of a large non-stick roaster.
2. Put the whole, rinsed chicken in the middle of the pot.
3. Mix the olive oil and spice coating and pour over the chicken.
4. Add the vegetables around the sides and on the top of the chicken.
5. Cover and bake in a preheated, 375 degree oven, for 1 1/2 to 2 hours until vegetables are fork tender.