Use Locally - Issue 66 October 2018
ON E P ONE PAN AN L LEMON E MO N A AND ND HER B CHI CKE EN R OAST HERB CHICKEN ROAST Ready R eady in 1 hour 30 min minutes utes
Serves 4
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• 50g butter butter,, softened • 2 garlic clov cloves, ves,
crushed • 3 tbsp fresh h
mixed ixed chopped m Tip) ip) herbs (see T • 2 lemons • Salt and fre freshly eshly
black ground blac ck pepper • 8 chicken th thigh high
portions • 500g baby potatoes,
halved • 2 tbsp virgin n olive oil • 4 sprigs fre fresh sh
rosemary,, broken rosemary b prigs into small ssprigs 38
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