Recipes | Roasted Chicken, Smashed Potatoes & Greenish Beans

Yesterday it was dreary together with rainy inward Kansas City, so, I turned to my 'comfort food' recipes - Roasted Chicken (ala Barefoot Contessa : stuffed alongside lemon together with garlic), smashed reddish potatoes, together with steamed greenish beans.  Roasting a chicken may look daunting, only it is THE easiest dinner you lot tin sack make.  The entire dinner tin sack last made for nether $10 together with it is super healthy, too.  I know, you lot don't oft associate mashed potatoes alongside gravy equally healthy, only it surprisingly is.  The gravy is made alongside alone two tablespoons of 'drippings' together with two tablespoons of butter - together with that feeds 4+ people.  

Shopping List :

Whole Chicken - $.99/lb x 3.5lbs = $3.50

Red Onions - $1.00

Red Potatoes - $1.50

Green Beans - $1.50

Chicken Stock - $1.00

Lemon - $.30

Garlic - $.30

Total = $9.10

Roasted Chicken :

Whole Chicken

Lemon, cutting inward half

Head of Garlic, cutting inward half

2 Tablespoons of Butter, softened

Salt & Pepper

1 Red Onion

Generously common salt & pepper the within of the chicken.  Stuff the lemon together with garlic halves inward the cavity of the chicken.  Pat the exterior of the chicken dry out alongside newspaper towels.  Spread the exterior alongside butter, hence sprinkle alongside common salt & pepper.  Tie together the legs of the chicken alongside twine.  Cut upwards reddish onions into large pieces, hence scatter around the chicken.  Roast for l minutes (longer for a larger chicken) at 425 degrees.  

Smashed Potatoes :

1 pound of reddish potatoes, cutting inward half

2 tablespoons of butter

1/4 loving cup of milk

Salt & Pepper

Place the potatoes inward a saucepan together with fill upwards alongside water.  Bring to a boil together with laid upwards until tender.  Put potatoes inward mixer fitted alongside the whisk attachment.  Add butter milk together with common salt & pepper.  Mix on depression until the potatoes commencement to 'smash'.  Continue until you lot accomplish the constancy you similar - chunky for me.

Green Beans : 

1 pound of Green Beans

1 tablespoon of Butter

Salt & Pepper

In salted simmering water, house greenish beans that you've trimmed the ends together with cutting inward half.  Cook for v minutes.  Drain.  Place butter inward in the hot pan, hence toss the greenish beans inward the butter for two minutes.  Salt & pepper. 

Gravy :

2 tablespoons of Drippings from the roasting pan

2 tablespoons of Flour

1 loving cup of Chicken Stock

2 tablespoons of Butter

Salt & Pepper

In a sauce pan, combine drippings together with flour - stirring for two minutes until the flour has cooked.  Whisk inward chicken stock.  Add butter together with common salt together with pepper.  Cook on depression until thick.   

Approximate calories per soul : 450 calories

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