Tray Roasted Chicken with grapes, olives and walnuts

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Recipe inspiration from Ostro the cookbook

Ingredients 

  • 1 large chicken chopped into pieces (or a mix of thighs and drumsticks) - approx 1kg 
  • 150g of red grapes
  • 50g of olives
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 50g of walnuts
  • Rosemary sprigs
  • 2 lemons
  • Extra virgin olive oil


Method
  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees C fan forced.  
  2. Arrange the chicken pieces in a roasting tray.
  3. Scatter around the grapes, olives, garlic, walnuts and rosemary. 
  4. Halve the lemons and squeeze the lemon juice into the pan and leave the lemon halves in the tray.
  5. Drizzle with olive oil and salt.
  6. Roast for approximately 40-45 minutes. Check the chicken is cooked with an oven thermometer. 
  7. While the chicken is roasting, if there is too much much liquid increase the oven temperature to 200 degrees C. 
  8. Once cooked, remove the chicken from the oven and leave the tray with the juices in the oven for another 10 minutes to reduce the liquid.
  9. Spoon the sauce over the chicken, serve and enjoy. 

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