Brazilian
Frango Assado (Roast Chicken)
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Frango Assado (Roast Chicken) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the oven to 400F.
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Rub the chicken pieces with the minced garlic, a squeeze of lemon, oil, salt, and pepper.
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Arrange the chicken in a roasting pan with the sliced onion scattered around.
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Roast 55 minutes, basting once with the pan juices, until deeply golden and cooked through.
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Rest 5 minutes and serve hot with rice, beans, and farofa.
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Serve it with
A Brazilian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Frango Assado (Roast Chicken), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Frango Assado (Roast Chicken) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 740 kcal
- Protein
- 80 g
- Carbs
- 3 g
- Fat
- 45 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 1750 mg
- Saturated fat
- 10 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Frango Assado (Roast Chicken) takes about 80 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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