ItaLIAN Lemon CHICKEN REVIEW

We tried an Italian chicken recipe at the weekend but adapted it as usual as we can’t use our hob, purchase rosemary due to post covid food shortages, I react to buttery dishes for some reason ~ not sure why and I can’t have chilli due to my illness that has gone but still have to be carefull.

Moaning aside I adapted the recipe to suit our needs and going on what we could get ~ as you do.

I’d serve this with potatoes but as you can’t get them we are having the diet chips still as we relax slimming a bit at the weekend, (still really low calorie anyway.)

Apéritif and digestif

We opted for Vermouth for our Aperitif.

The recipe

rosemary-lemon-roast-chicken

Rosemary & lemon roast chicken

We couldn’t get rosemary but I used to grow herbs and cook with them and hope to do so again.

Adapted Recipe

Italian lemon chicken with bambino carrots

(as it was a baby theme last week.)

This was even easier to make.

If you do the Medittarean diet you may prefer this to using butter.

I would probably still do this version if I had an extractor fan.

I don’t count the calories in alcohol or olive oil, but you could work out the calories in the oil if you do.

Normally I used to have a garlic mincer but that just wasn;t a possibility here, then I remembered flavoured olive oil.

Sainsbury’s

Garlic Flavoured Olive Oil, Inspired to Cook 250ml

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You used to be able to get loads of food products like this.

I just added the fresh lemon juice to half the bottle of this.

(just squeezed it by hand.)

The proportions probably needed working out better as it ended up tasting more like Italian garlic mushrooms than lemon, unless that was what it was supposed to taste like?

(Got 9 out of 10 from the nerd anyway ~ guess the proper way must be loads better.)

I used the whole bottle at £2.75 you could be more sparing or brush the oil on with a pastry brush like I found in a 50’s film in the 50’s weekend.

As we slim all week I think the olive oil does us good.

We put another lemon inside the chicken whole.

(Keith Floyd used to recommend that.)

Then just cooked as normal.

Would love to try it with rosemary.

I would of done baby potatoes also maybe but we did the slimming chip idea instead as it is all we can get.

Then we did the carrot idea with pre pacjed baby carrots

M&S

Chef’s Style Carrots 240g

m-s-chef-s-style-carrots

As I’m not allowed chilli, I made one tray of carrots in olive oil and one tray with chilli and olive oil.

So it ended up being chilli carrots.

These cooked for the same time as the chips.

Salad

Made the:

QUICK ITALIAN SALAD

Toss a couple of large handfuls crisp salad leaves with a few Peppadew peppers from a jar and some sliced black olives. Top with a few tbsp toasted pine nuts and dress with olive oil and red wine vinegar.

Made it just like this but we couldn’t get peppadew peppers.

Sainsbury’s

Caesar Salad 265g