I believe that we’re all on the lookout for meals with easy prep work and as few steps as doable, particularly for weeknights.
Through the years, I’ve cooked rooster and veggies on sheet pans greater than some other means. I discover the sheet pan is massive sufficient to carry sufficient meals for a household and it makes for simple cleanup.
This recipe makes use of quite simple spices and elements that almost all of us have readily available always. The pure juice from the rooster bakes into the potatoes, making their taste wonderful.
This dish is good sufficient to serve to firm, and you’ll add your individual interpretation — you may add 7 Spice or herbs to take this reliable recipe up a notch. It’s great to experiment. Add the flavors and quantities of salt and spices that you just love essentially the most.
Elements:
3-4 kilos darkish meat rooster on the bone, pores and skin on
⅓ cup olive or impartial oil
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 teaspoons candy or smoked paprika
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 massive candy onion, diced
2.5 kilos Yukon Gold potatoes
Preheat your oven to 375 F, and place the oven rack within the center.
Combine the oil, salt, paprika and garlic in a small bowl.
Sheet pan rooster and potatoes (Picture by Jessica Grann)
Wash and scrub the potatoes earlier than slicing them. You may dice them and go away the pores and skin on if you happen to like. This week, I made easy slices and left the pores and skin on. To do that, I lower the potato in half lengthwise, then lower every half lengthwise 4 or 5 occasions. You don’t need these slices to be tremendous skinny. Once they’re all sliced, set them apart in a bowl.
Pour about ¾ of the oil combination into the bowl of potatoes, and blend nicely.
Chop and cube the onion, and unfold it over the underside of the sheet pan.
Lay the potatoes over the onion and prepare your rooster items on high.
Brush the highest solely with the oil. I like to make use of a pastry brush to use the oil to the rooster, however if you happen to don’t have one, you should use your fingers to rub it in. You could wish to put on gloves as a result of the paprika can stain your pores and skin. If there may be any oil remaining within the bowl after the rooster has been brushed, you’ll be able to drizzle it over the potatoes.
Bake at 375 F for 35 minutes.
Cut back the oven temperature to 350 F. At this level, I take the tray out, transfer the rooster apart and provides the potatoes stir to make certain they’re evenly coated with oil. Place the rooster again on high of the potatoes and proceed cooking for one more half hour. (In case you use rooster quarters, you will have to regulate your time and prepare dinner the rooster quarter-hour longer than if you happen to’re cooking solely legs and thighs.) Rooster ought to hit an inner temperature of 165 levels F, and never all of our ovens are created equal. You’ll study in case your oven wants roughly time from plain previous trial and error. I favor my rooster within the 180 vary — simply my nervousness about correct cooking — so I’ll bake mine a bit longer. The potatoes want extra time than the rooster, which can get dry if you happen to go away it within the oven too lengthy.
When the rooster is able to come out of the oven, take away it to a platter and proceed cooking the potatoes for a minimum of one other 20 minutes. They need to be fork-tender when prepared.
This recipe serves 4-5 individuals, and the rooster tastes superb chilly or at room temperature — good for a yummy dish for Shabbat lunch or for picnics.
Good luck, bless your fingers and luxuriate in! PJC
Jessica Grann is a house chef residing in Pittsburgh.
