Empire Roast Chicken with Bombay Roast Potatoes and Amazing Indian Gravy
Recipe Book: Jamie Olivers Jamie's Great Britain - Buy this book Link to the Recipe
Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Wow! Off the blooming charts is this recipe as it is that good! Think a great roast chicken plus your favourite curry sauce combined!
Now, the actual recipe is a bit ambiguous in places in my opinion. When making the marinade it states 2 lemons, I took this to be the juice of 2 lemons as it wasn't stated and in the Bombay style potatoes it states to use 1 lemon, but I've no idea where! I'm guessing to serve with the potatoes.
Now, the actual recipe is a bit ambiguous in places in my opinion. When making the marinade it states 2 lemons, I took this to be the juice of 2 lemons as it wasn't stated and in the Bombay style potatoes it states to use 1 lemon, but I've no idea where! I'm guessing to serve with the potatoes.
I did a couple of substitutions as I'm fed up of my hands stinking of garlic and mistakenly rubbing
my eyes after chopping chilli (yes I do actually do this!!! quite regularly too) so in the marinade I used 1 tbsp Garlic Purée, 1 tbsp Ginger puree and 1 tbsp very lazy chopped chillis. In the Bombay potatoes I substituted 1 fresh red chilli with 1 tsp of lazy chopped chillis. I also skipped out fresh coriander as I taste coriander differently to normal people (soapy) so didn't want to ruin the dish.
my eyes after chopping chilli (yes I do actually do this!!! quite regularly too) so in the marinade I used 1 tbsp Garlic Purée, 1 tbsp Ginger puree and 1 tbsp very lazy chopped chillis. In the Bombay potatoes I substituted 1 fresh red chilli with 1 tsp of lazy chopped chillis. I also skipped out fresh coriander as I taste coriander differently to normal people (soapy) so didn't want to ruin the dish.
Easy to make. I marinated the chicken at 1pm and, as I cook in an Aga I put tin foil over the tray and placed the chicken in the coolest spot in the kitchen rather than have to get it out of the fridge 1 hour before putting it in the oven at 5pm.
Chicken - so moist!
Skin - crispy and soooooo tasty
Potatoes - delicious
Gravy - it really is amazing! Texture of gravy but taste of a good curry sauce
Chicken - so moist!
Skin - crispy and soooooo tasty
Potatoes - delicious
Gravy - it really is amazing! Texture of gravy but taste of a good curry sauce
Aga conversion: use an Aga small roasting tray (with the grill rack sitting inside it - no need to separate) with the chicken on the grill rack to cook the chicken and the gravy ingredients under it in the tray, and place the complete tray on the floor of the roasting oven pushed to the back. Potatoes boiled on boiling plate for 15 mins (I'm on a DC electric Aga so for other Agas you may want to boil on floor of roasting oven) potatoes then roasted in another small roasting tray for the last 40 mins of cooking time as per recipe but on lowest set of runners in roasting oven at the front of the oven nearest the door. Gravy shouldn't need any boiling after sieving - mine was perfect consistency.
Will I make this again? Silly question! Hell I'm going to be thinking about this meal for a few days!
Jamie - I love you! Thanks for this piece of pure brilliance! 💕💕👍🏻👍🏻
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| The finished roast chicken |
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| Gravy almost ready |
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| The delicious bombay potatoes |
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| The finished gravy |
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| Dished Up (photo is wrong way round!) |
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| Dished up before gravy and veg! |