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    Angela Hartnett’s Roast chicken with two summer salads

    Serves: 4

    Ingredients

    For the chicken:
    1 onion, peeled and quartered
    2 carrots, roughly chopped
    2 sticks celery, roughly chopped
    A lemon (halved)
    1 chicken, around 1.5kg
    1 bulb of garlic, broken into cloves
    ½ x 25g pack rosemary
    Oil, for griddling
    Sea salt and black pepper for seasoning (optional)
    1 tbsp plain flour
    175ml dry white wine
    Knob unsalted butter

    For the fennel salad:
    1 head of fennel, shaved
    ½ x 25g pack basil
    1 or 2 preserved lemons from a 220g jar
    75 ml olive oil
    20 ml white wine vinegar

    For the bean and courgette salad:
    250g green beans, topped and tailed
    400g can Borlotti beans, drained and rinsed
    2 courgettes sliced lengthways and griddled
    1 stick of celery (approx. 65g), finely chopped
    75ml olive oil
    20ml red wine vinegar
    ½ tsp Dijon mustard
    ½ tsp garlic, finely chopped
    Handful of mint, chopped
     

    Method

    For the chicken:
    1. Preheat the oven to 190ºC and put the onion, celery and carrots into the bottom of a roasting tin. Put the chicken on top, drizzle with oil and season with salt and pepper. Scatter the garlic cloves around the chicken, and add the lemon halves and rosemary. Roast, uncovered for 1 hour 40 minutes or until cooked through with no pink meat and the juices run clear. Remove from the oven and take the chicken out of the roasting tin. Set aside to rest.

    2. Drain off any excess fat from the roasting tin, then set the tin over a high heat. Stir in the flour, cook for a minute then stir in the wine. Leave to bubble for a couple of minutes then remove from the heat, whisk in the butter and strain into a warm jug.

    For the salads:
    1. While the chicken is cooking, shave the fennel with a mandolin and slice the preserved lemons. Dress with a mix of olive oil and vinegar and chopped basil.

    2. Cook the green beans in boiling water for 2 minutes, or until tender but still crunchy. Drain and refresh in iced water.

    3. To make the dressing, combine the olive oil, mustard and red wine vinegar with the chopped garlic and mint. Mix together the refreshed green beans, cooled grilled courgettes, chopped celery and add borlotti beans from the tin. Dress then serve with the chicken and gravy.

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