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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal369
    low
  • fat12g
  • saturates4g
  • carbs32g
  • sugars16g
  • fibre8g
  • protein34g
  • salt0.5g

Method

  • step 1

    Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and put the chicken in a large non-stick roasting tin. Halve 1 garlic clove and rub it over the chicken. Drizzle with oil, rub in with your fingers, then stuff the cavity with the thyme, 1 lemon half and the garlic you just used.

  • step 2

    Cut the other lemon half into quarters and scatter around the chicken with the other garlic clove, halved.

  • step 3

    Cover the tin with foil and bake for 40 mins, then remove the foil and spoon over the hot juices. Arrange the broccoli around the chicken, turning well in the juices, and return the tin to the oven for another 20-30 mins. To check that it is cooked through, pierce between the leg and thigh – if the juices run clear, the chicken is ready. Re-cover with foil and set aside while you prepare the sweet potatoes.

  • step 4

    Put the sweet potatoes in a pan of boiling water, return to the boil, then simmer for 7-10 mins until tender. Drain well, then mash. Set aside 100g of sweet potato mash if using for Chicken wrap with sticky sweet potato, see 'goes well with', then add the cream cheese to the rest and stir well.

  • step 5

    Remove the broccoli from the roasting tin and divide between 2 plates. Put the chicken on a serving plate, discard the lemon and garlic from the tin and remove as much of the fat from the juices as possible. Pour the remaining juices into a serving jug.

  • step 6

    Carve the chicken and serve about 100g (1-2 slices) per person (keep the rest of the chicken for Chicken wrap with sticky sweet potato if making, see 'goes well with'). Serve with the broccoli and mashed sweet potatoes, and a drizzle of the lemony-garlic juices on top.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, July 2014

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A star rating of 4.2 out of 5.10 ratings

carriethesnail

Love the recipe, really nice lemony chicken, I did roast sweet potatoes with it, but will use the potatoes as mash for my lunch tomorrow!

hjlonsdale

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

We love this recipe, we make it all the time. Chicken always comes out tasty and succulent, the charred broccoli is a really unusual but nice taste and you can't go wrong with sweet potato. Keeps us in lunches for the rest of the week as well- the chicken and sweet potato wraps are also lovely.

joinkendal

A star rating of 2 out of 5.

I know it was healthy and filling but it was also unfortunately dull-a-rama. The broccoli was delicious and I will definitely make that again, mashed sweet potatoes were ok considering I'm not a huge fan of mashed anything, but the roast chicken didn't taste of anything (I do know I'm not a fan of…

felicityhm

This was a lovely, really simple roast. The brocolli was amazing! A tip - when you take the chicken out of the oven to add the brocolli and take off the foil, tip the tin to get the juices out from the bird which you need to turn the broccoli in. Also, you have a very simple gravy from theses…

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Chuns

A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Really nice lemon flavours in the chicken and broccoli.

The only bad thing was the sweet potato mash. It was a bit odd, and harder to mash smoothly than normal potatoes. Other than that really good

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