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#WFD – Garlic and Rosemary Roast Chicken with Creamy Spinach

Carefully remove the chicken from the cooking bag, portion and serve with creamy spinach

POLOKWANE – This dish is perfect if you’re looking for a scrumptious Sunday roast.

What’s for Dinner suggests using any leftover roast chicken to create a wholesome chicken and roasted vegetable pasta dish the following evening that the whole family will love.

Ingredients

  1. 1.3kg chicken, whole and cleaned
  2. 1 x KNORR Cook-in-Bag Garlic and Rosemary
  3. 4 bunches spinach, trimmed and cleaned
  4. 30ml margarine
  5. onion, finely chopped
  6. 1 clove of garlic, crushed
  7. 100g cream cheese
  8. 125ml milk
  9. 1 x KNORR Vegetable Stock Pot

Method

  1. No need to preheat oven.
  2. Place the whole chicken into the Roasting bag and season with dry KNORR mixture. Close bag at end with blue tie supplied.
  3. Very gently massage KNORR mixture into the chicken on a stable surface. Ensure dry mixture is spread evenly.
  4. Place bag sideways in a cool oven dish, ensuring pieces are evenly spaced.
  5. Bake at 180°C for 65 minutes on the lowest shelf in the oven. Ensure that the grill is off at all times. Keep enough room for the bag to expand (bag must not touch the sides of the oven).
  6. For a crispier skin, open the bag 15 minutes before the end of cooking
  7. While the chicken is cooking begin to prepare the creamy spinach
  8. Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil
  9. Add the spinach and cook until just wilted then drain in a colander and rinse under cold water until cool
  10. Squeeze as much water out of the spinach as possible and set aside
  11. Heat the margarine in a pan and gently fry the onion and garlic until soft but with no colour
  12. Stir in the cream cheese, milk and KNORR Vegetable Stock Pot until smooth and melted
  13. Stir in the spinach then allow to simmer for 5-10 minutes until the mixture thickens
  14. Carefully remove the chicken from the cooking bag, portion and serve with creamy spinach

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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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