- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 2 servings
Cook a perfect roast chicken for Sunday lunch or Christmas, served with the ultimate gravy, homemade bread sauce, easy roast potatoes and pigs in blankets.
Ingredient:
- 500ml/18fl oz milk
- 75g/2½oz butter
- 8 cloves
- 3 large bay leaves, crumbled
- pinch salt
- freshly ground white pepper
- 1 small onion, peeled, finely chopped
- pinch freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 tbsp double cream
- 125g/3½ fresh white breadcrumbs
- 1 chicken with giblets (if giblets available, chopped)
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- salt and freshly ground pepper
- 300g/10½oz chicken wings, roughly chopped
- 125ml/4fl oz dry vermouth
- 8 chipolata sausages
- 8 thin slices streaky bacon (or pancetta)
- 250ml/9fl oz good-quality chicken stock
- 750g/1lb 10oz small to medium waxy potatoes, steamed or boiled in their skins, then peeled
