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Roast Chicken Legs with Root Vegetables & Gravy-Style Jus

Sunday-style roast dinner from one pan

60 min· Easy· serves 2· gluten-free

$4.38/servingat the cheapest of your stores this week · 6 ingredients on sale

Ingredients

Method

Prep

1Prep

  • Heat the oven to 400F.
  • Cut the potatoes, carrots and parsnips into 1 inch chunks.
  • Pat the chicken very dry.
  • Season the chicken generously with salt, pepper and the rosemary.
Everything on the pan

2Everything on the pan

  • Toss the potatoes, carrots, parsnips and whole garlic cloves with the olive oil in a roasting pan.
  • Season the vegetables with salt and pepper.
  • Nestle the chicken on top, skin side up.
  • Cut the lemon into quarters and tuck them between the chicken.
Roast

3Roast

  • Roast 45 to 50 minutes until the chicken reads 165F at the bone and the skin crackles.
  • Let it rest on a board for 5 minutes.
Jus

4Jus

  • Set the roasting pan over a burner and add the stock.
  • Scrape up every browned bit and let it bubble 2 minutes until slightly reduced.
  • Squeeze in the roasted lemon quarters.
  • Crush a roasted garlic clove or two into the jus.
Plate

5Plate

  • Divide the vegetables between two plates.
  • Set the chicken on top.
  • Spoon the jus over everything.

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