Chicken with potatoes EN

 

Traditional greek Sunday dish.

Its smell awakens memories of Sunday at home with the whole family at the table.

The lamb version is very tasty also but I prefer the chicken one.

This dish is everyone's favourite.

While it cooks it leaves a lemony smell that makes you hungry!!

Don't do it at the last minute.

This dish is tastier if it stays in the oven for an hour. If it is already cold, you can heat it a little so that the meat does not dry out.

I heat it in the microwave if necessary.



Ingredients for 4 - 6 people:

For the chicken:

1 chicken in 8 servings

2 teaspoons strong mustard (I use Dijon)

1 teaspoon dried oregano

Zest of 2 lemons

1/4 cup olive oil  (1 cup = 240ml)

Salt and pepper



For the potatoes:

1200gr potatoes

1/2 cup of lemon juice

1/2 cup olive oil

1/4 cup of water

1 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano

Salt and pepper



In a small bowl, mix the mustard, lemon zest, olive oil, salt and pepper and "massage" the chicken pieces with this paste. Leave the chicken at room temperature while you prepare the potatoes.

Preheat the oven to 200° C. 

Peel the potatoes (or simply wash them) and cut them into quarters or sixths if they are large this way:

On a wide baking tray spread the potatoes. Don't pile the potatoes on top of others. They have to be just one layer.

In a bowl, beat the lemon juice, oil, water, oregano, salt and pepper and add it to the tray with the potatoes. With your hands mix the potatoes (they all have to be covered with the vinaigrette).

Bake the potatoes for 30'.

After 30' remove the tray from the oven and with a brush wet the potatoes with the vinaigrette.

Place the chicken pieces over the potatoes with the skin side down. Low the oven temperature to 180° C and bake the food again for 30' more.

30' later take the tray out of the oven. With a brush moist the chicken pieces and potatoes with the vinaigrette and turn chicken  upside down. Moist them again and bake for 30' more or until the meat is golden brown.

 Enjoy it warm with a Greek salad and feta cheese.