Peruvian-style roast chicken with herby green salad
Serves 4
Easy
Prep:
Cook:
plus marinating
Roast chicken is a universal joy. Here chicken thighs are flavoured with a beer, lime and ginger marinade, then served with a green sauce and two types of salad.
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- 8-12 whole chicken thighs
MARINADE
- 2cm piece of gingerfinely grated
- 3 garlic clovescrushed
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 2 limesjuiced
- 75ml dark beer(such as stout or porter)
- 2 tsp paprika
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp kashmiri chilli powder
GREEN SAUCE
- small bunch of coriander
- 4 spring onionsroughly chopped
- 2 jalapeñoschopped
- 1 garlic cloveroughly chopped
- 1 limejuiced
- 100g mayonnaise
HERBY CHIPS
- 4 large baking potatoes
- cold-pressed rapeseed oil
- sea salt flakes
- dried oregano
CORN SALAD
- 2 x 340g tins of sweetcorn
- 2 shallotsfinely chopped
- 1 green pepperdiced
- 12 green oliveschopped
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- 2 limesjuiced
- handful of coriander leaves
- handful of mint leaves
- 100g fetacrumbled
AVOCADO SALAD
- 2 avocadossliced
- 2 little gem lettucesleaves separated
- 8 radishessliced
- ½ cucumbersliced
- handful of coriander leaves
- 4 spring onionschopped
- 2 limesjuiced
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal992
- fat67g
- saturates11g
- carbs43g
- sugars9g
- fibre11g
- protein48g
- salt1.8g
Method
step 1
Put the marinade ingredients in a blender and whizz until smooth. Put the chicken thighs in a large food bag and add the marinade. Leave for at least 4 hrs or overnight if possible.
step 2
To make the chips, cut the potatoes into chunky chips (leave the skins on), then soak in cold water for 30 mins. Drain and pat completely dry with kitchen paper.
step 3
When you are ready to cook, heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6.
step 4
Put a wire rack over a large baking tray lined with foil. Take the chicken out of the marinade and sit on the rack. Pour the marinade into a small pan, then boil for 5 mins to reduce.
step 5
Put 3 tbsp of rapeseed oil in a tray the chips will fit into in one layer and heat for 5 mins. Add the chips, some sea salt flakes and dried oregano, then toss through.
step 6
Put the chips on the top oven shelf and the chicken below. Cook for 45 mins until the chips are golden and the chicken is crispy and cooked through – brush some extra marinade on the chicken as it cooks and turn the chips a couple of times. The chips might need a little longer so take the chicken out to rest when it’s done.
step 7
To make the green sauce, put everything in a blender and blitz until smooth.
step 8
To make the corn salad, put the sweetcorn, shallots, pepper and olives in a bowl, and toss. Combine the mayo and lime juice, and season well. Add to the bowl and toss everything together. Chop most of the herbs and toss through the salad, then serve with the remaining leaves and feta scattered on top.
step 9
Toss together all of the avocado salad ingredients, then serve the chicken with chips, salad and the sauce for drizzling over.
