Hello
Every Wednesday I try and cook a new dish for dinner. Today I tackled lemon, honey and garlic chicken with sweet potato and cherry tomatoes. It was my first time doing an all in one roasting dish and it turned out great.
It also turned out to be very cheap. I had a bit of trouble deciding what piece of the chicken to cook. Most of the recipes I had seen recommended chicken thighs but I am not a fan of brown meat. In the end I met a lovely butcher in Tesco, Douglas who suggested getting a whole chicken and he would cut it up for me. Perfect idea and he handed me back a whole chicken sectioned into 8 pieces all for the pretty price of 4.89 euro! There was enough chicken there for at least 2 nights dinners but I decided to use it all in one go.
I picked up a bag of sweet potatoes for 1.69 euro and a carton of cherry tomatoes for 89c. I already had some of the bargain 29c lemons left over meaning I spent 7.41 euro on all the ingredients and left Tesco delighted with myself.
This dish can be made with any cut of chicken although my mother ensures me it needs a bone to be juicy.
Below are the ingredients, method and some pictures.
I can’t recommend this dish enough as it’s easy and takes about an hour to prepare and serve. So be brave and try it for yourself. If I can do it, anyone can! 🙂
Enjoy
Roz x
Ingredients (Serves 3-4)
Chicken (breasts, thighs, legs)
4 Small Sweet Potatoes (cut into cubes)
1 carton Cherry Tomatoes
Marinade
Juice of 3/4 Lemons
3 cloves of Garlic (crushed)
2/3 tbsp of Honey
Pinch of sea salt and some pepper
Don’t be afraid to add more or less garlic/honey/lemon. It depends on what you like.
Method
Prepare chicken and marinate for 10 to 20 minutes before putting into roasting dish.
After maybe 35 minutes add sweet potato to roasting dish.
At 50 minutes chicken should be looking cooked and sweet potato should be tender when pierced with fork. Add tomatoes for final 10 minutes.
Serve with some crusty bread for the zingy sauce.
Sweet Potato Cubed
Chicken and Sweet Potato
Just out of the oven ( I lost the run of myself and roasted some of the lemon rinds, delicious btw 😉 )
Served
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