Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Roast Chicken for Holiday Dinner

Roast Chicken for Holiday Dinner. This whole herb-roasted chicken with Hasselback potatoes is a holiday-ready sheet-pan dinner (Tom McCorkle for The Washington Post/Food styling by Lisa Cherkasky for The Washington Post) Sheet Pan. Place the onions, carrots, and fennel in a roasting pan. Spread around the bottom of the roasting pan and place the chicken on top.

Place the chicken in a well-oiled dish with the breast up (or down if you prefer). Remove the chicken from the oven, and brush the apple juice concentrate onto the chicken. Everybody loves chicken, and when it's roasted with lemon and garlic, the skin becomes crisp and flavorful, the meat is tender and juicy, and the pan juices are rich and savory. You can cook Roast Chicken for Holiday Dinner using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Roast Chicken for Holiday Dinner

1. It's 2 of thighs Chicken thighs.
2. It's 1 of just less than 2 teaspoons Salt.
3. You need 1 of Coarsely ground black pepper.
4. Prepare 1 dash of Olive oil.
5. You need of <Roast vegetables>.
6. It's 1 of Onion.
7. Prepare 1 small of Carrot.
8. You need 2 of Potatoes.
9. You need 4 medium of sized sweet tomato.
10. You need 3 of Mushrooms.

This is one of the easiest elegant dinner menus. You can make the creamy potato casserole ahead of time and store it in the fridge until it's time to bake it. Roasted Lime Chicken The subtle citrus flavor infused throughout this moist and baked lime chicken makes it a frequent request for family dinners. It's the ideal way to use fresh herbs such as rosemary, sage, thyme and parsley. —Kathy Lewis-Martinez, Spring Valley, California Credit: paula A simple roast chicken is the perfect Sunday dinner.

Roast Chicken for Holiday Dinner step by step

1. Pierce the chicken thighs several times with a fork and rub salt into both sides (a little more on the side without skin). Sprinkle with a generous amount of coarsely ground pepper..
2. Rub olive oil onto the skin-side..
3. Rub olive oil onto a baking tray and cover with baking parchment. If you don't have a baking tray, create two deep boxes using aluminium foil (one for each chicken thigh)..
4. Roughly chop the carrot into large chunks. Slice the onion into 1cm slices. Cut small potatoes in half, and larger potatoes into quarters..
5. Lay the onions onto the baking tray and place the chicken thighs on top. Roll them slightly so that only the skin side shows. Place the carrots, potatoes and tomatoes around the meat..
6. Cook in a preheated oven at 200°C for 50-60 minutes, until the skin is crispy. Transfer the cooked chicken and potatoes to a serving dish..
7. Set aside the tomatoes in a separate dish. Tip the rest of the vegetables from the baking tray into a frying pan, along with the juices from the meat. Slice the mushrooms into thick slices and lightly fry..
8. Transfer the fried vegetables along with the tomatoes to the serving dish and it's done. It's also good to garnish with parsley.

Tender, juicy roasted chicken has it all. A roasted chicken is so simple to prepare, make two and save the leftovers for these delicious shredded-chicken dinners — a simple meal that's perfect for weekdays. You need a wow-worthy main during the holidays, and these roasts are it. Whether you want to serve chicken, pork, beef, or even duck for Christmas dinner, we've got a roast recipe for you. It's convenient since you refrigerate it overnight, then simply coat with crumbs and bake.