Mustardy chicken & potato bake
A French-inspired meal featuring gloriously crisp-skinned chicken with fennel and thyme. Best of all, it couldn’t be simpler – everything roasts together in one tray. Choose a stainless steel one, such as John Lewis Stainless Steel Roasting Tray, 36.5cm, for super-easy cleaning.
- Serves2
- CourseMain meal
- Prepare10 mins
- Cook45 mins
- Total time55 mins
Ingredients
- 450g potatoes, scrubbed, thinly sliced
- 1 large bulb fennel, core discarded, cut into 8-10 wedges
- 1 large onion, peeled and cut into 8 wedges
- 3½ tbsp olive oil
- ¼ x 20g lemon thyme
- 2 chicken legs
- 2 tsp Grey Poupon Dijon Mustard
- 350ml chicken stock (made with 1 stock cube)
- ½ tbsp cider vinegar
- 1 crisp apple (such as Cox), sliced into matchsticks
- Green salad, to serve (optional)
Method
Preheat the oven to 220ºC, gas mark 7. Put the potatoes, fennel and onion in a large roasting tin, toss with 3 tbsp oil and season. Tuck in the thyme sprigs and sit the chicken legs on top, skin-side up. Season, then roast for 25 minutes until the chicken skin is crisp.
Stir 1 tsp mustard into the stock. Remove the tin from the oven and pour over the stock mixture, avoiding the chicken skin. Reduce the oven temperature to 200ºC, gas mark 6; roast for 15-20 minutes more, until the vegetables are tender and the chicken is cooked through with no pink meat remaining and the juices running clear.
In a small bowl, whisk together the remaining 1 tsp mustard and ½ tbsp olive oil with the vinegar until emulsified. Toss the apple in the mustard dressing. Serve the chicken and vegetables alongside the dressed apple, with a green salad, if liked.
Cook’s tip
Seeing double
This recipe is easy to scale up to feed four – simply double the quantities and use one very large (or two smaller) roasting tins.
Nutritional
Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe
Energy | 3,848kJ/ 921kcals |
|---|---|
Fat | 50.1g |
Saturated Fat | 9.7g |
Carbohydrates | 59.4g |
Sugars | 16.5g |
Fibre | 11.1g |
Protein | 52.8g |
Salt | 2.9g |