Roast Chicken With Sage And Onion, Bread Sauce And Spring Vegetables

Ingredients

Ingredients For the chicken
  • 2 small free-range chickens, with gizzards

  • sea salt

  • ½ bunch fresh thyme

  • ½ bunch fresh rosemary

  • 1 head garlic, split in half horizontally

  • 2kg/4lb 6½oz duck fat

  • 1-2 tbsp olive oil

  • knob butter

  • squeeze lemon juice

For the sage and onion
  • 1 tbsp olive oil

  • 2 onions, peeled, finely chopped

  • 12 fresh sage leaves, finely chopped

For the bread sauce
  • 300ml/10½fl oz milk

  • ½ onion, peeled, roughly chopped

  • 1 clove

  • 8 slices bread, crusts removed, pulsed into breadcrumbs in a food processor

For the vegetables
  • 12 baby carrots, peeled, green tops left on

  • 12 baby leeks, trimmed

  • 3 baby courgettes, thickly sliced

  • 12 baby turnips

  • 12 radishes

  • 1 tsp butter

  • squeeze lemon juice

For the chicken gravy
  • 4 chicken wing bones (from above), meat removed, chopped into three pieces each

  • chicken neck (from above), chopped

  • gizzards (from above)

  • 4 cloves garlic, peeled, halved

  • olive oil

  • 250ml/9fl oz white wine

  • 750ml/1 pint 7fl oz brown chicken stock

Description

Recipe Uses 2 Small Free-range Chickens, With Gizzards, Sea Salt, ½ Bunch Fresh Thyme, ½ Bunch Fresh Rosemary, 1 Head Garlic, Split In Half...

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