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One Pan One Meal: Roasted chciken dinner recipe
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Mediterranean Style Roast Chicken with Carrots, Turnips and Tarragon
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
50 mins
Total Time
1 hr 10 mins
 
A Mediterranean style chicken dinner is easily accomplished using one sheet pan to oven roast chicken, carrots, turnips, and mushrooms. The chicken is lightly marinated with Herbs de Provence and can be marinating up to 24 hrs in advance. Fresh tarragon seasons the vegetables and compliments their natural sweetness. It is a simple and elegant dinner that will encourage the whole family to gather at the table and enjoy a family meal together. Serve with a simple green salad with a light vinaigrette.
Servings: 4 servings
Author: Ginger
Ingredients
Chicken
  • 1 4-5 lb 2k chicken, or already cut up (bone in, skin on) chicken pieces (See Note)
  • 1 Tb minced garlic approximately 2-3 large cloves of garlic
  • 1 1/2 tea Herbs de Provence
  • 1 tea Kosher salt
  • 1 Tb olive oil
  • Fresh ground pepper (4-5 turns with the mill)
Vegetables
  • 1 lb about 450 g baby turnips
  • 1 lb about 450 g small carrots
  • 8 oz about 250 g mushrooms
  • 1/2 tea Kosher salt
  • 4 sprigs fresh tarragon divided
  • 1 Tb olive oil
Pan Gravy
  • Juices from roasting chicken
  • 1/2 cup 125 ml dry white wine
  • 1/4 - 1/2 cup 62 - 125 ml chicken or vegetable broth (low sodium if not homemade)
Instructions
For the Chicken
  1. If you have a whole chicken, cut the chicken up into 8 pieces .
  2. You can follow the instructions on the link or just use already cut up chicken. Once the chicken is cut up spread the pieces across the cutting board.
  3. Sprinkle the Kosher salt evenly over the chicken pieces on both sides of the chicken.
  4. In a large bowl, big enough to hold all the pieces of chicken, add the minced garlic, olive oil, and Herbs de Provence, and ground pepper. Stir to combine. Add the chicken pieces to the bowl with the herbs and mix the chicken with the herb mixture until the herbs are evenly coated each piece of chicken.
  5. Cover the bowl with the herbed chicken with plastic wrap and refrigerate for a couple of hours up to 24 hours.
  6. Take the chicken out of the refrigerator 1 hour before you want to begin the cooking process. This will bring the chicken up to room temperature.
  7. Preheat oven to 375˚ F
Vegetables
  1. If you have organic turnips and carrots, examine them for bruises and dirt and determine if they need to be peeled. Peel vegetables with a vegetable peeler if needed. Cut the turnips into wedges. Cut the carrots into sections similar in length with the turnips. Cut each carrot section in half lengthwise, then cut each half into wedges similar in size to the turnips.
  2. Clean then cut each mushroom into quarters.
  3. Place all the vegetables in to a medium size bowl and mix them together.
  4. Strip the leaves off each tarragon sprig. Reserve the stems and divide the tarragon leaves into two piles. Take one of the piles and bunch the tarragon leaves together into a tight pile then mince with a sharp chef knife.
  5. Add the minced tarragon, olive oil, Kosher salt and black pepper to the bowl with the vegetables. Mix together with your clean hands until the vegetables are evenly covered with the herbs and olive oil.
  6. Save the other pile of tarragon leaves to add when the vegetables are done. Do not mince them until just before you add them to the vegetables.
Putting it all together.
  1. Put the chicken pieces on a large rimmed sheet pan, my pan is 12 1/2" x 17 1/2" (32 cm x 44 cm), then arrange the prepared vegetables around the chicken pieces. Add the tarragon stems with the vegetables.
  2. Put the chicken and vegetables into the pre-heated oven and bake for 40 minutes.
  3. If the vegetables are done before the chicken, remove the vegetables from the pan with a slotted spoon and put in a heat proof dish. Remove and discard the tarragon stems. The vegetables are done when they feel tender, but not mushy, when pierced with a fork. Mince the remaining fresh tarragon and add to the roasted vegetables.
  4. Cook the chicken until the juices from the chicken run clear after the chicken has been pierced with a fork. (Internal temperature of the chicken should be around 165 - 170 degrees F) When the chicken is done, take the pan with the chicken out of the oven, turn on the broiler and move the rack to the upper third portion of the oven. If you have not done so already remove the vegetables from the pan before you broil the chicken. Put the pan back in the oven to broil and crisp up the chicken skin, about 5 minutes.
Pan juices
  1. When the chicken is done and skin crispy, put the baking sheet across two stove burners.
  2. Remove the chicken from the pan and place the chicken on serving plate. Add the roasted vegetables to the platter with the chicken and cover with foil to keep warm.
  3. Turn on the two stove burners to medium and pour 1/2 cup of dry white wine into the pan with the juices. Deglaze the pan by scraping with a wooden spoon, the brown, caramelized goodness off the sides and bottom of the pan. The liquid and the motion of the wooden spoon against the sides will get the golden color and flavor off the sides of the pan and into the juices. Bring the liquid to a gentle boil and slightly reduce. Add the chicken stock and continue you stir the juices until they come to a slight boil. Taste your pan juices and add, more stock, or wine, or seasoning to suit your taste. Be careful not to over salt the pan juices.
  4. Pour the pan juices over the roasted chicken and vegetables and serve. A simple leafy green salad is a great accompaniment.
  5. Enjoy!
Recipe Notes

If you have never cut up a whole chicken before and are not comfortable starting it, feel free to buy chicken already cut up. It is good to have a good sharp chef knife and kitchen scissors when you cut through bone. If you do not own them buy whatever chicken parts you and your family prefer. The cooking time in this recipe is based on chicken with the bone in and skin on the meat. Sometimes already cut up chicken breasts are particularly large. If you cut chicken breasts in half across the middle they might finish cooking before the thighs and drumsticks. The video by NY Times Cooking is very instructive about how to cut up a whole chicken. I have been cutting up chickens for years and I learned new information from it.