Roasted Coconut Chicken

Roast chicken with a bit of a twist. Add a load of chopped root vegetables and potatoes into the roasting pan when you put it in the oven, the coconut flavour is delicious.

• Ready In: 1 hr 40 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 2  tablespoons curry paste
• 2  tablespoons  oil
• 1  teaspoon  grated fresh ginger
• 1  teaspoon lemongrass, finely chopped
• 400  g coconut milk
• 1 1⁄2 kg chicken

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5. Mix together the curry paste, oil, ginger and lemongrass with 2 tbs of the milk.
2. Brush the chicken all over with this. Put the cicken in a roasting tin and pour over the remaining milk.
3. Roast for 1 1/2 hours, basting occasionally with the coconut milk.
4. Remove from the oven and leave to stand for 10 mins berfore carving.