Chicken Roasted with Whole Cloves of Garlic
Garlic has many different flavours, depending on how you use it. Here we go to the extreme and seemingly throw caution to the wind, roasting our chicken with lots and lots of plump garlic cloves.
SERVES
6
PEOPLE
PREP TIME
20
MINUTES
COOKING TIME
50
MINUTES
Ingredients
1 free-range chicken, 1.5-1.8kg
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 sprig of thyme (or rosemary)
55g peeled plump garlic cloves
15g soft butter
A good drizzle of olive oil
450g unpeeled plump garlic cloves
Gravy:
450ml homemade chicken stock or two-thirds stock and one-third dry white wine
Cotton string





