J. Friedman Fast

Fast Food | Episode 7

Ingredients:

For Chicken

• 1 whole chicken (4 lbs./1.8 kg or smaller if air frying, 4-5 lbs. if roasting in oven)
• 2 tbsp (30 mL) vegetable oil
•  Juice from ½ small lime
• 2 tsp (10 mL) sugar
• 1½ tsp (7 mL) ground cumin
• 1 tsp (5 mL) ground paprika
• 1 tsp (5 mL) ground oregano
• 1 tsp (5 mL) salt
• ½ tsp (2 mL) black pepper
• 4   garlic cloves, pressed

For Vegetables

• 1.5 lbs baby potatoes (quartered)
• 1/2 onion
• 1 – 1 1/2 lbs baby carrots
• Olive Oil
• Salt and pepper

Instructions

Preparation

• Preheat oven to 400F
• Pat the chicken dry with a paper towel. Combine the remaining chicken ingredients in a bowl and coat the chicken with the mixture.
• If roasting chicken, insert wedges of leftover lime into chicken’s cavity.
• Tie the legs together with a 12″ (30-cm) piece of cooking twine.
• In a roasting pan (or on a cookie sheet) toss w/ olive oil: wedges of onion, baby carrots, and baby potatoes. Season to taste with salt & pepper.

Oven Roasting

• Place chicken on top of vegetables. Tuck wings underneath.
• Insert meat thermometer deep into chicken thigh.
• Roast in 400F oven for 20 mins. Reduce heat to 325F and continue roasting until meat thermometer reads 165F.
• Allow chicken to rest 10-15 mins before carving.
• Serve w/ vegetables.

Airfrying (w/ Rotisserie)

Assumes your airfryer has a rotisserie feature.

• Roast vegetables in oven while chicken cooks in airfryer.
• Preheat airfryer to 400F or use Roast setting.
• Tie the wings against the breasts with a 24″ (61-cm) piece of twine.
• Insert the airfyer spit though the legs where they are tied together and through the cavity, centering the bird on the spit. Insert the forks securely into the chicken and tighten the screws.
• Insert chicken into airfryer, set rotisserie to rotate.
• Cook 45 mins, or until internal temperature reads 165F on a meat thermometer.
• Let chicken rest 10-15 mins before carving.

The Story:

As you can see, I’m not one of those annoying bloggers who make you read a whole story before you get the recipe. I hate that, too. You’re welcome.

This recipe was inspired by my Midlife Crisis Challenge – Day 24 was to find a new recipe to cook for dinner. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, here is the entire Midlife Crisis library, so you can catch up.

If you and/or your family has gotten tired of regular roasted chicken, the spices and lime juice in this variation will wake up all your taste buds.

I would love for you to give this recipe a try and let me know what you think. Better yet, give it your own spin and report back how your tweaks worked out so I can try them out, please. And be sure to include photos.

Would you be interested in a full-length step-by-step video of how to make it? Let me know in the comments and I’d be happy to film it for you!