Roast chicken dinner

Name: Roast chicken dinner
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 4 portions
Ingredients: 1 whole chicken (raw, whole bird); 800 g potato; 3 medium carrots; 300 g broccoli; 3 Tbsp olive oil; 4 cloves garlic; 1 Tsp thyme; 1 Tbsp flour; 1 cube chicken stock cube; 300 ml tap water; 1 Tsp salt

Roast chicken with potatoes, carrots, broccoli and gravy.

1 h 50 minto make
4portions
Mediumto cook

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A medium footprint

2.57 kg CO₂e a portion, or 3.4 kg for every kilo of the dish: its climate, nitrogen, land and water impacts together, from farm to plate.

How we rate the footprint

A very high nutrition rating

801 kcal and 50.6 g of protein a portion. The rating weighs what's in it, inspired by Nutri-Score.

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Ingredients

For 4 portions

1 whole chicken (raw, whole bird)
800 g potato
3 medium carrots
300 g broccoli
3 Tbsp olive oil
4 cloves garlic
1 Tsp thyme
1 Tbsp flour
1 cube chicken stock cube
300 ml tap water
1 Tsp salt

Method

Heat the oven to 200 °C.
Rub the chicken with half the oil, the garlic, thyme and salt and roast for 1 hour 20 minutes, until the juices run clear. Rest it for 15 minutes.
Toss the potatoes in chunks and the carrots with the rest of the oil and roast them alongside for the last 50 minutes.
Steam the broccoli.
For the gravy, stir the flour into the roasting juices, then the water and stock cube, and simmer until thick.

Nutrition

	A portion (755 g)	100 g
Energy	801 kcal	106 kcal
Protein	50.6 g	6.7 g
Carbohydrate	48.3 g	6.4 g
of which sugars	5.3 g	0.7 g
Fat	45.3 g	6 g
of which saturates	11.3 g	1.5 g
Fibre	7.6 g	1 g
Salt	3.6 g	0.5 g

Footprint

	A portion	1 kg
Climate (CO₂ eq)	2.57 kg	3.4 kg
Nutrient pollution (N eq)	16.84 g	22.3 g
Land use for a year	2.18 m²	2.89 m²
Water use	2,886 l	3,820 l

Footprint from AGRIBALYSE 3.1.1 (ADEME), with our own minor changes. How we work it out.

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