greek lemon chicken with potatoes

🥘 Ingredients

• • chicken
• • lemon, juice of
• • dried oregano
• • salt
• • pepper
• • garlic cloves
• • potatoes
• • olive oil
• • water
• • minced garlic cloves

📝 Instructions

1. 1 wash the chicken well and pat dry
2. 2 combine all the remaining ingredients and massage the chicken , inside and out , with this mixture
3. 3 put the chicken in a big bowl and put in the fridge while you prepare the potatoes
4. 4 put the potatoes and all remaining ingredients into a large baking pan
5. 5 wash your hands and put them in the pan and toss the potatoes around to coat with other ingredients
6. 6 put in the oven and crank up the heat to 250c
7. 7 start roasting the potatoes and when they're golden-brown , stir them to bring the white sides up and push to the side of the pan to make room in the middle for the chicken
8. 8 if all the water has evaporated , and potatoes have started to stick to pan , add 1 / 2 cup more
9. 9 add the chicken , breast-side down , and pour any juices that have accumulated in bowl over
10. 10 return to very hot oven and roast until chicken is golden-brown
11. 11 turn over , breast-side up and continue roasting until chicken is nearly as golden-brown on other side
12. 12 at this point , i turn the oven off- don't open it- and leave the chicken in for another 1 / 2 an hour
13. 13 i like to think i'm saving energy this way , but it also cooks the chicken beautifully
14. 14 in all , i'd say from when you put the potatoes into the cold oven to when you remove the chicken to carve after sitting in off oven for 1 / 2 an hour , we're talking 2 hours
15. 15 serve with pan juices