Spanish

Pollo al Horno con Patatas (Oven-Roasted Chicken with Potatoes)

Name: Pollo al Horno con Patatas (Oven-Roasted Chicken with Potatoes)
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 2.5 lb bone-in chicken thighs; 2 lb potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks; 1 onion, quartered; 4 garlic cloves; 1 lemon; 4 tbsp olive oil; 3 sprigs fresh thyme; 1.5 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper

Noelia @noelia_vigo

Pollo al Horno con Patatas (Oven-Roasted Chicken with Potatoes) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at lunch and 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.

65 min Medium Halal Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2.5 lb bone-in chicken thighs
2 lb potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
1 onion, quartered
4 garlic cloves
1 lemon
4 tbsp olive oil
3 sprigs fresh thyme
1.5 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 425 F. Toss the potatoes and onion with half the olive oil and half the salt, and spread them in a large roasting pan.
Season the chicken thighs with the remaining salt and the pepper, and nestle them among the potatoes skin side up.
Squeeze the lemon over everything, then tuck the squeezed lemon halves, the whole garlic cloves, and the thyme sprigs into the pan.
Drizzle the remaining olive oil over the top and roast for 45 to 50 minutes, turning the potatoes once, until the chicken skin is deep golden and the potatoes are tender.
Let rest for 5 minutes before serving straight from the pan; the dish most Spanish families name when asked what they cook on a Sunday, and again on a Tuesday, and a different method entirely from stovetop Pollo al Ajillo.

Watch how to cook Pollo al Horno con Patatas (Oven-Roasted Chicken with Potatoes)

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Serve it with

A Spanish dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pollo al Horno con Patatas (Oven-Roasted Chicken with Potatoes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something to sip
- Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Boquerones en Vinagre (Vinegar-Cured Anchovies)
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Pollo al Horno con Patatas (Oven-Roasted Chicken with Potatoes) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Pollo al Horno con Patatas (Oven-Roasted Chicken with Potatoes)
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: 560 kcal
Protein: 36 g
Carbs: 32 g
Fat: 32 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 720 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pollo al Horno con Patatas (Oven-Roasted Chicken with Potatoes) takes about 65 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.