Spiced Roast Chicken Recipe

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Roast chicken has always been a family favorite so why not mix it up a little and add some variety with some Middle Eastern spice.

Serves: 4
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 60 mins

Ingredients

1 x Bannockburn Free Range Chicken
Middle Eastern spice mix (recipe below)
Olive oil
1 eggplant, cut into small wedges
2 red onions, peeled
80 grams goat's cheese marinated in olive oil
1 punnet of cherry tomatoes
Small handful of mint leaves
Large handful of coriander leaves
Large handful of parsley leaves
Mint leaves
50mls red wine vinegar
Salt flakes
Freshly ground black pepper

Middle Eastern spice mix

1 tablespoon crushed chillies
1 tablespoon ground cardamom
1 tablespoon coriander seeds
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
1 tablespoon fenugreek seeds
1 tablespoon ajowan seeds
1 tablespoon allspice
½ tablespoon ground nutmeg
1 tablespoon ginger
2 tablespoon black peppercorns
8 cloves

2 tablespoons sea salt

Method

1. Pre heat the oven to 200˚C.
2. Drizzle olive oil over the chicken and rub into the skin, sprinkle a generous amount of the spice mix over the chicken and rub into to ensure complete coverage.
3. Place the chicken in a heavy roasting pan season well with salt and place in the oven to cook. The chicken should take approximately one hour to cook depending on your oven.
4. To check if your chicken is cooked, insert a sharp knife between the leg and the body and if the juices run clear you are ready to take it out and rest if there are signs of blood put it back in for 5 to ten minutes until done.
5. Whilst the chicken is cooking, cut the eggplant and red onion into wedges.
6. Heat some olive oil in a non stick frying pan and brown the vegetables in batches.
7. When the chicken is 5-10 minutes off being cooked through add the vegetables to the roasting tray with the chicken.
8. When the chicken is cooked, remove from the pan and leave to rest for 15 minutes on a plate and cover with foil. Drain off any excess oil, add cherry tomatoes to the roasting tray and put the
9. whole thing back in the oven to warm through and soften the cherry tomatoes.
10. Add a generous splash of red vinegar to the vegetables.
11. To serve: place the whole chicken on a serving platter and scatter the vegetables around it. Break up the goats cheese and distribute evenly over the top of the vegetables and then scatter over the fresh herbs and drizzle over the pan juices

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Middle Eastern spice mix

Toast the whole spices in a heavy based frying pan over a medium heat, until they give off a rich aroma.

Grind to fine powder in a mortar and pestle. Roughly cut up the dried chillies and discard some of the seeds and pound them in the mortar and pestle then mix together the remaining ingredients.

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