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Roast chicken and too many lemons

Four lemons is not a mistake. They collapse into the potatoes underneath and that is the point.

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Four lemons is not a mistake. They collapse into the potatoes underneath and that is the point.

Roast chicken and too many lemons

Prep
15 min
Cook
1 hr 20 min
Serves
4

Ingredients

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200°C. Toss the potatoes, garlic, rosemary and two of the lemons (quartered) in the oil in a roasting tin.
  2. Halve the other two lemons and put them inside the chicken. Sit it on top of the potatoes.
  3. Roast 1 hour 20 minutes, basting once at the hour.
  4. Rest the bird for 15 minutes on a board while you crush the roasted lemons into the potatoes.

Watch: shaping the dough

The shaping is the step everyone asks about. Everything else reads fine.
Marta, the author

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Marta Oliveira

Cooking out of a small kitchen in Lisbon and writing it all down so it does not get lost. Four rounds of testing before anything gets published.

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