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Lemon chicken (Pollo ai limoni)
- Prep time:
- 25 mins, plus 1 hr marinating
- Cook time:
- 45 mins
- Serves:
- 4
Matthew Fort serves spatchcock chicken drenched in lemon juice, garlic and chilli with a bitter leaf salad
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Ingredients
- 1 chicken
- 4 unwaxed Lemons
- 2 cloves Garlic, finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp dried red chilli flakes
- 1 large bunch, flat-leaf Parsley
For the salad
Method
1. Cut the chicken through the breastbone with a sharp knife or poultry shears and flatten out with the palm of your hand.2. Squeeze the juice from the lemons, retaining the lemon halves.
3. Combine the chicken, garlic, chilli flakes and half of the parsley in a shallow non-reactive dish and pour over the lemon juice. Marinade for 1 hour at room temperature. Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6.
5. Transfer the chicken to a roasting tray or terracotta baking dish and pour the marinade over. Scatter the lemon halves over the top and cook in the oven for 45 minutes.
6. Remove the chicken from the oven and cover with the remaining chopped parsley.
7. For the salad: dress the salad leaves with the olive oil and lemon in a salad bowl.
8. Serve the chicken with the salad.
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View all comments (4)This chicken is fab really fresh and yummy cant wait to have it again.
This was very nice. I used skinless chicken breasts (for a slimmer option). And actually left it in the marinade for longer but it was lovely and a very simple recipe. Thank you
Going to try this recipe tonite but i agree with Michael, i did notice Mathew working with the raw chicken and then introduce the other ingredients by touching them as he spoke and these where salad items! iwas was
Mathew,
This looks a fabulous recipe which I lookforward to trying. But I was very disappointed with some serious food hygiene errors during the prep and after cooking.
First, Matthew, you cooked with your jacket on, the end of your sleeve touching the raw chicken.
Then, and more seriously, you placed the cooked chicken on the same chopping board that was still wet and stained from raw chicken. If you argue that the board was changed then look at the tape...it doesn't appear to have been.
regards,
Michael