Roasted Chicken, New Potatoes, and Asparagus
- 1 1/2 pounds new potatoes, halved, or boiling potatoes, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
- 10 cloves garlic
- 3 1/2 tablespoons cooking oil
- Salt
- 4 bone-in chicken breasts (about 2 1/4 pounds in all)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- Fresh-ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter, cut into 4 pieces
- 1 pound asparagus, tough ends snapped off and discarded, spears cut diagonally into 1-inch pieces
- 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon zest (from about 1/2 lemon)
- Heat the oven to 425.
- In a large roasting pan, toss the potatoes and garlic with 1 1/2 tablespoons of the oil and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- Put the pan in the upper third of the oven and cook, stirring once, for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, coat the chicken with 1 tablespoon of the oil; arrange the pieces, skin-side up, in a smaller roasting pan.
- Sprinkle the chicken with the lemon juice, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
- Top each piece of chicken with a piece of the butter.
- Stir the potatoes.
- Put the chicken in the oven with the potatoes and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add the asparagus, the remaining 1 tablespoon oil, and 1/8 teaspoon each salt and pepper to the potatoes.
- Stir and continue cooking until the chicken, potatoes, and asparagus are done, 10 to 15 minutes longer.
- Remove both pans from the oven.
- Toss the potatoes and asparagus with the lemon zest.
- Serve with the chicken breasts.
new potatoes, garlic, cooking oil, salt, chicken, lemon juice, freshground black pepper, butter, lemon zest
Taken from www.foodandwine.com/recipes/roasted-chicken-new-potatoes-and-asparagus (may not work)