This is just super fucking delicious. Perfect if you are having one of those evenings at home cooking for a date, family, etc and don't want to look like a hopeless adult.
If you made this and liked it (or it got you dumped, fired, sent to a siberian penal colony, airlocked, etc) let me know on twitter @i386.
If you are making this after 2070: sucked in as I am likely dead and laughing from the grave.
- A chicken
- Sweet paprika
- Two lemons
- Olive oil
- Varying levels of confidence ranging from "order pizza" to "food truck grease merchant".
- Hot, obviously
- Baked Fennel complements lemon nicely
- Roast potato or yams
- Some steamed kale is good if you want
- Preheat oven to 150 deg C (thats 300 def F for you americans)
- Grease a baking tray lightly with olive oil
- Cut lemon up into 1/8’s
- Put chicken in baking tray
- Stuff all lemon 8th’s into chickens butt
- Lightly drizzle top of chicken with olive oil
- Use your hands to make sure chicken is greased evenly
- Cover in salt (3-4 pinches)
- Dust with sweet paprika
- Turn it over and repeat the last two steps with the salt and paprika
- Ensure chicken is on its back
- Put in oven for three hours
- Make 2 cups of water and squeeze the remaining lemon juice into the 2 cups
- Every 30 mins pour some lemon water on top to ensure it keeps moist. You want to aim for increasing surface area rather than volume of liquid**
- Chef gets to pick at chicken in the last 30 mins as is his or her constitutional rights.
** If the liquid in the bottom of the baking tray is getting high drain it out and use it for basting with your lemon water.
- Don't pour paprika on like ketchup. Dusting is easy: Paprika jar should have some holes in the top, make jar horizontal with chicken and 'tap' on the butt of the jar.
- Roast any vegetable: wash it, cut up into chunks and cover with olive oil on a tray. Put in oven until ready.
- How to Fennel: cut off the fennel fronds/stalks. Put those in the trash. Quarter up the bulb and put on another tray. Drizzle olive oil.
- How to know when anything is "ready": does it taste or look like something you wouldn't reject at a restaurant? Yes? Then its fucking ready
- Chicken 'juice' or anything that has touched raw chicken is going to be a breeding ground for salmonella. Make sure you clean things with hot water and soap.