Canadian

Roast Chicken Dinner

Name: Roast Chicken Dinner
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: 1 whole chicken; 2 tbsp olive oil; 3 garlic cloves; 1 tsp dried oregano; 1 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Jenny @jenny_calgary

Roast Chicken Dinner is Canadian 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.

100 min Medium Halal Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 whole chicken
2 tbsp olive oil
3 garlic cloves
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 400F and pat the chicken dry.
Rub the chicken all over with olive oil, crushed garlic, oregano, salt, and pepper.
Roast on a tray until the skin is golden and the juices run clear, about 85 minutes, basting once halfway through.
Rest for 10 minutes before carving and serving.

Watch how to cook Roast Chicken Dinner

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Canadian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Roast Chicken Dinner, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Green Beans
  
  10 min
What it is eaten with
- Canadian Dinner Rolls
  
  12 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Roast Chicken Dinner carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Roast Chicken Dinner
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: 540 kcal
Protein: 49 g
Carbs: 0 g
Fat: 38 g
Fiber: 0 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 530 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

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

When to cook it

Roast Chicken Dinner takes about 100 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.