Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Winter Chicken Pot Roast

Winter Chicken Pot Roast. Chicken Pot Roast is the comfort food you want on a cold fall or winter night, at a Sunday family dinner, or when you are entertaining family and friends. Chicken Pot Roast This recipe is actually inspired by a dish I had at a restaurant in Kansas City, Urban Table. Then, serve directly from the pot, cutting pieces of the chicken, with the veggies and juices; or, place the chicken on a platter, and slice to serve.

It is no secret that a good roast chicken is one of my favourite things. I smear chickens in butter and roast them. I soak them in buckets of brine and then roast them. You can cook Winter Chicken Pot Roast using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Winter Chicken Pot Roast

1. Prepare 1.5 kg of Whole chicken with skin.
2. It's 1 stem of Leeks (large cuts).
3. Prepare medium 3-4 of Potatoes large cuts.
4. It's 4 nos of Carrots split in two and cut in half.
5. It's As required of Pumpkin cut into cubes 10-12 pieces.
6. It's As required of Dill finely chopped for seasoning.
7. You need As required of Rosemary for seasoning.
8. You need 4 of Green onions cut in halves or rings.
9. Prepare As required of Thyme for seasoning.
10. Prepare 200 gms of Butter.
11. Prepare 100 gms of Peas.
12. It's 12-15 cloves of garlic crushed.
13. Prepare 2 tbs of Mustard sauce.
14. You need 5 tbsp of Olive oil.
15. It's as per taste of Pepper.
16. You need as per taste of Salt.
17. It's 1 tbs of All spice mix(garam masala).
18. It's 2 of Star Anise.
19. You need 1 of Lemon.

But in the depths of winter I love nothing more than to pot roast them. A pot-roasted chicken will never give you the crisp salty skin a dry roast can, but the succulence of the flesh and the sheer ease both in Chicken pot-roasted in milk, bay and nutmeg by Diana Henry. In winter it's good with roast carrots, in the summer roast tomatoes and a salad of bitter leaves. Carefully lift the chicken onto a chopping board and carve as much as you need.

Winter Chicken Pot Roast step by step

1. Mix dill, thyme, and some rosemary with 100 gms butter and make a seasoning paste. You can add some pepper and salt to this mixture at this time. The butter after being mixed with these ingredients needs to be stuffed carefully under the skin on the breast side of the chicken..
2. Carefully marinate the rest of the chicken with a mixture of olive oil, mustard sauce, garam masala, thyme, rosemary and some oregano. You can add pepper and salt to your taste at this time..
3. Heat olive oil in a dutch oven pot to sear the chicken to seal in the flavours. This has to be done for 1 min each side starting with the breast on high flame..
4. After the skin has turned golden on each side, turn the heat to low while following the next steps..
5. Now remove the whole chicken and leave it aside on a plate and start layering the vegetables in the pot to create a base. Start with onions and potatoes. Now place the chicken carefully over the bed of onions and potatoes and place the rest of the vegetables around it and over it. This will include -garlic, carrots, leeks, pumpkin, peas, Star Anise,the rest of the potatoes, onions and the herbs for seasoning.
6. Preheat the oven to 180°C and use it in bake setting..
7. Remove the pot from the flame and add the leftover 100 gms of butter, sliced and evenly spread around the chicken and the veggies. Add some more seasoning if required and close the lid to continue cooking in the oven..
8. Bake for 90 min @180°c with lid closed and then for 15 min @200°c with lid open at the end. At this time, change settings to broil to brown the skin of the chicken..
9. After the cook, separate the chicken carefully from the veggies and plate it with a side of the veggies..
10. Drain the residual liquid onto a pan and bring it to a boil to reduce. This will serve as a gravy with the roast. Drizzle the gravy over the chicken and serve with your favourite sides..

Serve the carved chicken in a shallow bowl with the onions and some of the stock poured over. Serve with some usual Sunday veg and roast potatoes. Pot roasting your chicken results in a delicious, unrivalled flavour and tenderness! It is a simple and hearty way to prepare chicken! For more winter flavors, skip the sandwich and serve the saucy meat over roasted potatoes or on a flatbread loaded with winter veggies.