Roast Chicken

Roast Chicken




Servings: 2



Ingredients
1 large chicken
1 litre of chicken & vegetable stock
1/2 a large onion, sliced
2 or 3 large teaspoons of maple syrup or honey
oyster sauce
70g of closed cup mushrooms, sliced
three or four heaped teaspoons of cornflour, mixed in cold water
2 teaspoons of sage
1 bottle of low calorie lager (optional)


Recipe
1. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/190c or 170c in a fan oven.
2. Place chicken on large trivet above a deep dish filled with the onions and mushrooms.
pour the full bottle or lager (optional) followed by the stock over the top of the bird, collecting all the liquid beneath the trivet. Put in
the oven for 25 minutes.
3. Take the chicken out of the oven and stir the gravy beneath the it and mix in the sage.
Place it back in the oven for another 25 minutes.
4. Turn the chicken upside down and stir the gravy if the liquid level has lowered a lot, top
it up with hot water and make sure to stir in any that has stuck to the side of the pan. Glaze the top side of the bird fully with two tablespoons of oyster sauce and let the drizzle over the sides into the liquid below. Put
it back in the oven for a further 20 minutes.
5. Take the chicken out and stab it with a sharp knife, if clear juice run out it is ready (if
not put it back in until clear juices run from it.) turn the chicken the right way around and
brush the maple syrup over the top of the chicken and place back in the oven for ten
minutes.
6. Take the chicken out and put on a plate, cover it with foil loosely and leave it to cool.
Stir the gravy well making sure that you get all of what is stuck to the side well mixed in.
Drain it into a large saucepan. Now at this point you have two options, the first is to pour all of the liquid content into a blender and blend until the gravy is a thickness to your liking, or bring it to the
boil and stir into a whirlpool. Slowly stir in the cornflour a little at a time until gravy
reaches the correct thickness.
7. Carve the chicken and serve with 'Roasted Vegetable Medley' minus the radishes and
add boiled green beans and mash potato.
8. Save the left over gravy and chicken and the next day for lunch have Warm Chicken
Sandwiches.