Jamie's Chicken

Jamie’s Chicken

Ingredients:
1 whole Chicken
1 large lemon
8 slices parma ham
1-2 cloves garlic
2 handfuls of fresh timjan (thyme or rosemary can also be used)
Salt &pepper
125 gr. Soft butter
1 kg potatoes (can be sweet potatoes)
Carrots

How to do:

Preheat oven to 220 °C

Wash chicken and dry
Slide fingers between skin and flesh and loosen the skin from the body

Chop small and mix together in a bowl:
- bark from citron
- Parma ham
- Garlic
- Timjan
- Salt & Pepper
Mix everything with butter

The butter mixture is then spread evenly both under skin and on outside of chicken

Cut slightly into legs loosening them from body but not detaching. (Necessary to achieve even cooking)

Slice lemon in half and put into the chicken

Place on an oven drawer and into the oven for 20 min.

Pre boil potatoes for 10 min and cut into pieces
Cut carrots into pieces

Remove chicken from oven, add vegetables to drawer
and soak them with the melted butter.

Put everything back into the oven for 40 min.