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#WFD – Classic pot roast chicken

Serve with roast butternut, green beans and rice

POLOKWANE – Sunday’s are for delicious roasts and what’s better than a well roasted chicken?

What’s for Dinner says pot roasting your chicken results in a delicious, unrivalled flavour and tenderness making it a simple and hearty way to prepare chicken.

Ingredients

  • Robertsons Atlantic Sea Salt

Method

  • Pat the whole chicken with paper towel to dry and remove excess moisture
  • Heat olive oil in a large, heavy based pot then place the whole chicken into the pot and brown the skin well on all sides, turning it over until the skin is a good golden brown colour
  • Remove the chicken from the pot and set aside
  • Place the onion, sliceds into the pot and fry until golden brown then add the carrots and garlic and fry for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally
  • Return the chicken to the pot, breast side up on top of the vegetables
  • Squeeze the lemon juice over the chicken and sprinkle with rosemary
  • Add the KNORR Chicken Stock Pot together with the water and arrange the baby potatoes around the edge of the pot
  • Sprinkle a pinch of whole salt crystals on top of the chicken
  • Cover the pot tightly with a lid or thick tin foil and allow to cook for 1 ½ hours or until the chicken is cooked through and the vegetables are tender
  • You can turn the chicken over half-way through cooking
  • Remove the chicken from the pot once cooked and allow to rest for a few minutes before carving
  • Serve with roast butternut, green beans and rice

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Raeesa Sempe

Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard

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