Baked Roast Herb Chicken with Roast Vegetables

BEWARE!!! - before you continue reading and wanting to try this recipes.. I have to warn you that this dish took bl_0_dy 3 HOURS TO BAKED!!! YES.. 3 WHOLE HOURS IN THE OVEN!!!!.. and its not even a full chicken (but 3/4 chicken cut into quarters..) and I have to drizzled it wif virgin olive oil like every 15MINS!!! Was like swearing of not ever gonna make it again..but HB loves it soo much he kept complimenting it ...and gobbled it all down!! So yeah..worth the effort and heehe guess this will be on dinner menu every now and then! lol..:P so yeah.. for those brave souls out there... SCROLL DOWN....

BAKED ROAST HERB CHICKEN WITH ROAST VEGETABLES - serves 3-4

Ingredients:

* Whole chicken (you can either cut it into 4 pieces like I did or just have it as a whole)
* 12 cloves of garlic (just peeled and smash it)
* 4 big onions (peeled and cut into 4)
* 3 big carrots (chopped abt 2 cm)
* 1/4 pumpkin (chopped into cubes)
* 2 long eggplant (chopped into 2 cm)
* Optional: Celery, brocolli, cauliflower or other veggies up to your taste
* Salt
* Grounded black pepper
* 3 T of honey
* Olive oil
* Garlic herbs
* Chilli powder/crushed dry chillies
* Thyme
* Rosemary
* Dry parsley


I did told you its not a simple recipe... didnt I.. hehe.. but cmon.. look at this nicely roasted chicken... hmm.... tempt your buds huh!!! so scroll down...



Method:

1) Marinade the chicken with all the seasoning ingredients.
2) Brush it with olive oil and honey
3) Put all the vegetable around, over, under the chicken and drizzled it with olive oil and honey, sprinkled some salt and black pepper
4) Baked it under 230 degrees celcius oven.. for 3 HOURS!!! covered with aluminiumfoil poked with holes for the first 2 hours. Be sure to drizzled it with olive oil every 15 MINUTES!! and turning it around once. To get the burn and crunch effect, remove aluminium foil the last 40 minutes.
5) ENJOY YOUR LONG BUT WORTH IT EFFORT... AND MAKE SURE ASK YOUR HB OR CHILDREN TO TRULY COMPLIMENT YOU OR THROW THIS DISH AT THEIR FACE.. HEHE.. JUST KIDDING!!!


Note: I served my baked chicken with smashed roasted potatoes and uses the drizzled leftover and made it into a gravy.. damn delicious !!!

(I know what some of you all thinking.. STOP IT!!!!)