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Roast Chicken with Rosemary Potatoes

A burnished whole chicken rested on a bed of golden potatoes and carrots, the pan juices spooned over.

Roast Chicken with Rosemary Potatoes, plated and ready to serve
Serves
6
Total time
100 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$7.66

Ingredients

  • 4 1/2 lb whole chicken
  • 2 lb russet potatoes
  • 1 lb carrots
  • 1/3 oz fresh rosemary
  • 1/3 oz fresh thyme
  • 6 clove garlic
  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 lemon
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1 tsp ground black pepper

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 425F. Pat the chicken dry inside and out and let it sit at room temperature while the oven comes up.

  2. Cut the potatoes into 1-inch chunks and the carrots into thick coins. Toss them in a roasting pan with 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, the smashed garlic cloves, half the rosemary and thyme, and a teaspoon of the salt.

  3. Rub the chicken all over with the remaining oil, then season inside and out with the rest of the salt and the pepper. Halve the lemon and put it in the cavity along with the remaining herbs.

  4. Set the chicken breast-side up on top of the vegetables. Roast for 70 to 80 minutes, until the thigh juices run clear and the skin is deep brown.

  5. Move the chicken to a board and let it rest 15 minutes. Stir the vegetables in the pan juices while it rests.

  6. Carve and serve with the potatoes and carrots, spooning the pan juices over everything.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 10 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£28.38£4.7310 of 10 ingredients
Australia$55.94$9.3210 of 10 ingredients
Greece35,70 €5,95 €10 of 10 ingredients
Canada$112.76$18.7910 of 10 ingredients
Spain24,39 €4,07 €10 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$93.81$15.649 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬١١٩٫٦٤ ج.م.‏‏١٨٦٫٦١ ج.م.‏9 of 10 ingredients
Germany35,81 €5,97 €9 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$819.10$136.528 of 10 ingredients
United States$45.94$7.667 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 24,86*€ 4,146 of 10 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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